Environment for my freezing aliens

So I am designing my aliens flash-freeze-on-target mechanism and now I am wondering what would be the more practical use for these flash freezing powers, as a predator or prey.

These creatures are as intelligent and curious as humans, and as social as rats. They have a tube and pod net system under the skin connect to dozens of small holes to suck in the air. They pressurize this air till it's a liquid then can release it out causing it to become cold and flash-freeze the target on which it is sprayed.

An offensive application would be to target prey which can fly away fast so flash-freezing would stop them at once leaving them ready to be eaten.

A defensive application would be to flash-freeze attacking predators and get away before being eaten.

So basically what I'm asking is what would be the most efficient use of these powers: offensive or defensive? predator or prey?

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