Ice Storm

Ice Storm

Overview

Type: Animal

Hit Points ✯✯✯✯✯

Attack Power ✯✯✰✰✰

Mobility ✯✯✰✰✰

Utility ✯✯✯✰✰

Learning Curve ✯✯✰✰✰

Ice Storm is an ice-attack summoning polar bear mobile. Ice Storm has among the highest HP ratings in the game, sharing this quality with Rocken and Lightning, being bested only by Ice, and has low to average stats otherwise. In exchange for lower damage output and utility, Ice Storm can be very difficult to be knocked out due to its bulk. Unique to Ice Storm and IceBall is the ability to use its shots to summon and direct Ice Thor, which will always be present on stage if Ice Storm or IceBall are involved in the match, even if they are not actively in play and even on stages that Ice Thor is not normally present on. While Ice Storm's shots involving Ice Thor have their subtleties, Ice Storm's shots and overall strategy are typically simple and straight forward, meaning it is easier to use and learn than many other mobiles.

Shot 1

Ice Storm launches an ice ball for its S1 that will, once contacted with a mobile, totem, or land, create a tall icicle spear directly upward and downward, damaging anything it touches. S1's icicle spear is rendered through all objects and land without disturbing it. For any mobile that is damaged by the icicle spear, they will be dealt solid damage of approximately 230-250.

Shot 2

With S2, Ice Storm fires four guide bombs in an arc. Ice Thor will be called to fire a volley of ice balls directly toward the direction of the guides. This shot's effectiveness directly varies with Ice Thors level when it is used. While Ice Thor is at a low level, moderate damage of around 180-200 and mild land destruction will be incurred. With Ice Thor at Max level, S2 will do upward of 300 damage and significant land destruction.

Special Shot

For Ice Storm's SS, it launches three larger, more powerful ice balls in a slightly spread arc that will each summon a giant icicle spear upward from the point where it lands on a totem, mobile, or ground. Like S2, these spears will rise through obstacles without destroying land. The area of effect is very large between the three spears and will generally deal around 300-350 damage to any mobile or totem struck by the spears. To control the placement of the spears, Ice Storm should fire across at a low angle to spread them out as far as they can be, or use a high arcing shot to concentrate the spears onto a smaller area.

Tips and Techniques

1. Unlike Adum and Aduka in respects to Thor, none of Ice Storm's attacks add extra experience toward Ice Thor's level (save for indirectly with S2 as Ice Thor directly levels itself up to a degree any time it is activated and strikes a tank). On the flip side, Ice Storm is not as reliant upon Ice Storm as Adum and Aduka are to Thor, as his S1 and SS function independently.

2. Whenever Ice Thor appears on a stage that it would not normally appear on as a result of Ice Storm's presence, there will not be clouds spawned that could be used by other mobiles to use Ice Thor. This is also true for IceBall as well as Aduka or Adum in respects to Thor.

3. S2 will spread out widely when launched in a high arc, causing Ice Thor to spray ice balls across a large space of land. This can be used to achieve double hits and multiple shield breaks.

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