Boss - Freeze Man
Freeze Man is 3rd in traditional Any% and 1st in 100% routing.
Freeze Man's Pattern
Freeze Man typically walks back and forth between these steps.
- Freeze makes a small hop on being damaged,
- Freeze jumps over you and shoots down. This freezes the floor, so jump over the ice to avoid getting stuck.
- Freeze fires straight up and does not move
- Freeze jumps straight up then fires horizontally at you after landing - dodge this shot by jumping over it
- Repeat
Junk Shield Strat
Freeze Man has a flinch animation like most bosses in this game. Making Junk Shield collide with him will stop Freeze's movement. This will advance him to his next attack in the above attack pattern, where you should simply use junk again.
Junk shield itself is a very laggy weapon. This is best mitigated by summoning the shield next to Freeze so it gets destroyed almost as fast as it appears.
In general, stand next to Freeze, and be ready for him to move.
- After the first hit, Freeze jumps over you and shoots down.
- After the second hit, Freeze fires straight up and does not move. If you got frozen to the floor from attack one, just wait with Junk Shield until he moves into you.
- After the third hit, Freeze jumps straight up then fires horizontally at you after landing - dodge this shot by jumping over it
- Repeat until you have hit Freeze 7 times.
Buster Strat
This is mostly relevant to the 100% and Buster Only categories - Any% should focus on Junk Shield.
Enter the room with a charged buster shot. Hop and release the charge, then slide under Freeze when he jumps at you.
Just like the Any% Cloud Man fight, charging is slow, so pummel Freeze with Lemons. When he does jump high to shoot down and freeze the floor, or otherwise jumps out of range, you can use the extra time to build a full charge.
If you shoot Freeze while he is walking across the floor, use short hops with the lemons and be ready to slide under his jump.
Refight Notes
The refight should use the Junk strat, through there are 2 other notes about the fight to keep in mind.
Freeze does take extra damage from Scorch Wheel.
Freeze is fully healed by Freeze Cracker - This makes a fun event gag if the run has gone wrong.