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One of my top 11 frames. I’m going to be really enthusiastic about this bad boy, so that should tell you how much I love my top 5.

Frost has an absolutely amazing kit. Aside from his Passive, which might as well just not exist. Enemies have no armour, either can’t move, or move and shoot very slowly. And his augments are amazing. If I have one complaint, the 15m range and 60% strip on Avalanche means a good Avalanche build is going to be juggling some things, either taking a shard investment or needing to dip into Equilibrium negative efficiency builds. Only really relevant for SP Circuit though.

Frost is one of my staples for Archon Hunts, since he kind of just does everything you need for every mission type, with high damage output and great party support, and braindead easy objective defense.

Cold is just straight up a universal utility element, although often hard to justify putting on your weapons (Corr/Cold raw is making a bit of a comeback with Primary Frostbite though if you’re willing to make some small compromises on paper-DPS). Nothing is immune to Cold status, aside from some bosses. Even Acolytes and Overguard get slapped by it, although it is capped until you break Overguard. At 4x, it’s a 65% slow, so almost 3x penalty to moving and shooting. At 9x, the cap, it’s a 10x slow. Slows are great because they also scale combat scripts… did you know Violence actually has an elastic amount of time before he drops the Violence Silence?

Bit more on augments now. Freeze Force is great, because it’s a straight buff to Viral. You are running Viral on the funny fullstrip frame, right? Right. Also a straight buff to corr/cold builds too. People running corr/heat pistols are going to hate you though… use with caution in pubbies.

Ice Wave Impedance is funny. It’s a separate slow effect to the Cold, so Frost can very nearly timestop targets with an 11x/40x slow depending on what their Cold cap is. While it’s often hard to justify keeping Ice Wave, it’s very nice to have when you want it. It’s on my Disruption and mobility builds (ditching Snow Globe). Another note is that it leaves multiple independent patches, so it’s somewhat resilient to Nullifier pulses. Very funny for bullying Acolytes too. Also, Ice Wave is huge so it leaves a massive area of funny.

Chilling Snow Globe… I know nothing about. I’ve never used it. I guess theoretically it would be nice if you wanted to farm Hieracon with Frost for some reason.

Icy Avalanche. Aw yeah. I recently dropped some red shards on Frost to make room for this, and it’s hard to go back. Ironskin for the whole party. No knockdowns. No poison. Mostly no energy drain. No death slashes. So good! And now that Overgating exists, everyone gets an extra 0.5s of oneshot immunity. Really adds to Frost’s already formidable support kit.

Biting Frost my beloved. This is a really good buff for Frost, and turns him into a powerful and versatile weapon wielder. 200% CC/CD opens up some really dumb things, like red crit Pax Seekers that hit in the millions, Stahlta oneshots, Corinth nukes, ridiculous Contagion nukes, Cyanex murderswarms, and so on. The sky is the limit when you’re playing inside Frost’s icy sandbox of slaughter. Frost just straight up has no bad weapons when you’re running this.

He has some nice midgame builds too. With high base EHP it’s very easy to make him into an umbra tank and comfortably go for a couple hundred levels.

If you’ve put Frost in cold storage, I can’t recommend enough pulling him out and giving him a spin. He’s been an absolute monster since the November 2021 buffs. I still hear people trash talking him, but it’s just not true. Sad case of Zephyr Syndrome, I think, given he was languishing for years as a niche frame.