Why are there no freezing moves?

Aug. 13, 2010

I’ve played a lot of pokemon games, and all of them have moves that inflict every status problem, sleep, burn, confusion, infatuation, paralasis, and poison, but no move that freezes the foe on contact. many moves have -may freeze the target- as an added affect but no move that has freezing as its sole purpose, like toxic. or will-o-the wisp. Why is that?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Freeze is the most powerful effect is why. It completely stops the foe from attacking, and it takes a lot longer than Sleep to get rid of. It would be too unfair to have more than a 30% chance to freeze (which I think is the max with Tri Attack.)

Edit: A frozen Pokemon has a 10% chance each turn to defrost while a Sleeping Pokemon wakes up in 1-7 turns (always two using Rest.) A frozen Pokemon can end up being frozen past 7 turns.