How To Master Grabs In Rivals of Aether 2

How do grabs work in Rivals of Aether 2?

There are three types of grabs in Rivals 2 - standing grab, dash grab, and pivot grab, which respectively have longer range but more endlag.

Attacks have priority over grabs, and if two players grab at the same time it will result in a grab release. You can perform a standing grab while dashing by inputting a jump and grab in quick succession. This is called a JC grab and is generally safer in case you whiff.

When a player gets a grab, they can throw, pummel, or special pummel. If they throw, their opponent will be immune to re-grabs until they get hit or touch the ground. If they pummel, this re-grab immunity will be lost, allowing them to be potentially chain-grabbed. If they special pummel, they’ll perform a move unique to each character.

If you’re the one getting grabbed, you can guess which pummel they’ll choose and press the same button to immediately break out of the grab. This is important against characters like Zetterburn, whose special pummel will set you on fire and can power up his throw into a kill shot.

Some characters like Loxodont have a command grab, a special move that lets you get a grab after a dash animation or in the air and can’t be broken out of.

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[BigJambu]

It's actually genius making chain grabs possible only after pummelling in a game where you can cancel a pummel with your own call out as the grabbed player. This game is fantastic

[aurority]

I had no idea you could break out of the pummel by pressing the same button as them. This is soooo useful and very informative. It’s a shame they don’t elaborate on the mechanics themselves, it shouldn’t have to be taught by a random YouTuber

[zackgonzalez]

Instead of pressing A or B to break the pummel, you can hold the button preemptively

[spyhrd]

why is this 10 second video more informative than any other long-form video i’ve seen lil

[jagrande]

Why isn't any of this explained in game

[thisistherun]

Grab immunity explanation was incredibly helpful to me.

[kyallon]

I didn’t know about jc grabs, that makes so much more sense why I kept getting grab when trying to do rising nairs with grab instead of attack

[BasilWald]

Damn I've been playing for so long and never knew this it was a mistake launching this game without a in game tutorial tbh

[piedpiper]

Thanks for putting these informative videos out. Good editing too!

[AbeSofresh]

Akshon esports my goat always blessing us w the dankest of content

[MrPickleEdits]

That thumbnail is just clairen dapping up her grandfather.

[jesstahh]

played this game for 30 hours since release and had no idea about breaking pummels…

[psomatik]

It’s also extremely important against Clairen because she can chain grab you for hella percent if she guesses correctly

[sup]

didn’t really realize that wrastor was wearing goggles this whole time and has actual normal eyes underneath, it makes sense but I just naturally though his goggles WERE his eyes lol

[ZerosiiniFIN]

That's not a pivot grab in the intro. That's a dash grab

[cong]

yo that wasn't a pivot grab in the beginning of the video. You need to cancel the run skid animation into grab, which you can't do out of initial grab.

[kyrie]

WRASTOR GETTING GRABBED IS SUCH A GAY LITTLE ANIMATION I LOVE IT

[GoldDragon]

Interesting that Zetter’s throws are all potentially combo throws and kill throws
Just like his smashes, to be honest

[lagalil]

You can just let go of the control stick before inputting grab while running to get standing grab. There is no need to jc grab in this gane

[BrownCharlie]

Imagine if smash had something like this instead of mashing nearly every button trying to escape