Freeze cancelling Santa effect | Forums

[AndrewWang42]

Should a Program Stan freeze be able to make it so that Santa's charged ability, even though it went off, doesn't reach the intended target (who is also frozen of course)? I had an instance where Santa used his charge, but my intended target Stan of Many Moons did not receive it. And no, there wasn't an Enforcer Jimmy or anything like that blocking the SOMM either. If this is intended, it's kind of either unfair or really badass, but if it's not intended then I'm reporting it as a bug.

[FoggyPaws]

You absolutely deserve it for using Santa and SoMM lol

[nik_lin]

Did santa survive the freeze or die while frozen?

If he died, I think its the same for all cards with abilities or warcry animations. The effect ONLY takes place once the animation is 100% complete, if the unit is killed or mind controlled or whatever before that it gets cancelled or hijacked (or delayed).

Wouldnt be surprised though if there is some bug where the "animation completed, now execute the effect" gets screwed up if the unit is frozen once the timer is up.

Or its just yet another version of the classical "if there is a warcry or ability taking place and another unit uses a warcry or ability, the first units warcry or ability is cancelled", which STILL isnt fixed...

[Cural42]

Did santa survive the freeze or die while frozen?

If he died, I think its the same for all cards with abilities or warcry animations. The effect ONLY takes place once the animation is 100% complete, if the unit is killed or mind controlled or whatever before that it gets cancelled or hijacked (or delayed).

Wouldnt be surprised though if there is some bug where the "animation completed, now execute the effect" gets screwed up if the unit is frozen once the timer is up.

Or its just yet another version of the classical "if there is a warcry or ability taking place and another unit uses a warcry or ability, the first units warcry or ability is cancelled", which STILL isnt fixed...

Yeah, I see stuff like that often, as well. If someone triggers a freeze power while my GWC animation is in progress, and it freezes GWC before he's done, then his freeze doesn't take effect until after he unfreezes. At that point, he sometimes finishes his animation where he left off, other times his animation stops, and I have to tap on him again to restart it. A few rare times, he does not resume, AND the charge circle resets, causing the power to be lost. It doesn't happen very often, and I imagine it is a matter of timing or lag, but not sure which.

Although I used GWC in my example, I've seen it happen with other units that have charge powers, too.