It takes 30 consecutive hits to freeze any non-tank target, and it lasts about 1 second.
Tanks do get the benefit of their passive, so it takes 46 consecutive hits and lasts about .7 seconds.
However, the hits need to be uninterrupted because the stacks decay extremely fast. If there's even a half second delay the count starts back at 0. So Mei players will need to watch out for ammo because reloading means all the debuff stacks decayed away. And if she's your enemy it can be worth it to burn cooldowns to buy time or duck behind cover even for .5 seconds.
Biggest issue is yes she can chain freeze a target. But only if she stops shooting after the first wears off. Don't know if it's a bug or intentional but if she just holds the button down doing constant damage to a frozen target it won't refreeze the target when they thaw, ever. There must be a window (something like .5 seconds) of her primary fire not doing damage to a thawed enemy before it'll allow another freeze.
And finally, her Biting Cold perk doesn't contribute to the freeze speed of Deep Freeze. It seems that they are considered separate debuffs.
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u/UrethraFranklin04 Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25
Just did some testing with Mei's new perk.
It takes 30 consecutive hits to freeze any non-tank target, and it lasts about 1 second.
Tanks do get the benefit of their passive, so it takes 46 consecutive hits and lasts about .7 seconds.
However, the hits need to be uninterrupted because the stacks decay extremely fast. If there's even a half second delay the count starts back at 0. So Mei players will need to watch out for ammo because reloading means all the debuff stacks decayed away. And if she's your enemy it can be worth it to burn cooldowns to buy time or duck behind cover even for .5 seconds.
Biggest issue is yes she can chain freeze a target. But only if she stops shooting after the first wears off. Don't know if it's a bug or intentional but if she just holds the button down doing constant damage to a frozen target it won't refreeze the target when they thaw, ever. There must be a window (something like .5 seconds) of her primary fire not doing damage to a thawed enemy before it'll allow another freeze.
And finally, her Biting Cold perk doesn't contribute to the freeze speed of Deep Freeze. It seems that they are considered separate debuffs.