- Devastating Grab Game - While both Nana and Popo are still alive, the Ice Climbers are capable of dealing devastating amounts of damage through their hand-offs, which if performed correctly can potentially lead to very early kills
- Strong Burst Movement - The Ice Climbers' superb wavedash allows for them to slide across the stage very quickly, and can help them secure punishes from very large distances, alongside allowing them to escape dangerous situations when in need
- A Supporting Character - Nana, aside from being necessary for recovery, chaingrabs, and giving decent damage, helps in other ways. She can make attacks on her own, which mostly matters when you're getting grabbed. This makes Ice Climbers entirely immune to chaingrabs until Nana dies.
- Big Hammers - Despite their small size, Ice Climbers have surprisingly large disjointed hitboxes on many attacks. Well-spaced moves are therefore very likely to beat out opponents' attacks.
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- Reliance On Secondary Climber - Once separated from the primary climber, the secondary climber is entirely controlled by an AI that tends to be stupid and often predictable. If the secondary climber is killed early, the character is significantly weakened with many of their strengths and techniques no longer being usable until the next stock.
- Poor Diagonal Hitboxes - Ice Climber's moves that have diagonal hitboxes are generally rather poor. They often have bad range, bad active frames, bad startup, or a mix of these. This causes them to generally struggle to challenge many character's approach games directly as well as approach characters on platforms.
- Bad Air Mobility - With both poor aerial drift and fall speed, Ice Climbers can become easy prey once launched, and can struggle to attack foes on high platforms.
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