Snake's Hand Grenade.
Hand Grenade is Snake's Standard Special Move. The grenades Snake uses appear to be M67 fragmentation grenades. Pressing and holding the special move button once will cause Snake to pull out the pin, releasing it will cause him to throw it. The distance that the grenade is thrown can be controlled by pressing forward, backward, or pressing no direction at all. A maximum of two grenades can be thrown, no more can be produced until one of them explodes.
If an opponent is hit by the grenade (before it explodes), he/she will still receive 1-5% damage.
If Snake is close to a grenade when it goes off, he will cover his ears, because of the noise from the explosion. Kirby will also do this if he copies Snake (even though he has no ears).
Unlike Link's bomb, it does not explode on contact and the enemy can grab it before it explodes. The grenade can be "cooked" by holding B (as it is thrown when B is released) to reduce the time between the moment it's thrown and the moment it detonates--the grenades detonates after three seconds, so "cooking" it for two seconds and then throwing it when it's close to exploding is a wise strategy.
Also, Grenades are unique from Bombs or Vegetables in that they take priority over held items; that is, Snake will still perform the move while holding an item. Anything he carries will be dropped as soon as he presses the Special button.
Interestingly, the Hand Grenade cannot be held while shielding. Attempting to do so will cause Snake to drop the grenade at his feet. This can be used in various ways, such as dropping it, and then picking it up again to throw in a more traditional way, or dodging an incoming attack, which will leave the grenade behind, which will likely be set off when the attacking player hits it. For some reason, this also makes any of his grenades that are being carried or even thrown by another player to fall straight down.
The great advantage of the Grenade is that the explosion isn't affected by Stale-Move Negation.
The grenade has a delay time of 3 seconds. This is printed on the grenade.
Types of throws
Tilt back while throwing.
Don't tilt at all while throwing.
Tilt forward while throwing.
Origin
Hand grenades have always been a staple offensive tool in the Metal Gear series. They can easily be found in lockers, store rooms, or obtained from enemy soldiers.
| Snake's Special Moves | ||
|---|---|---|
| Brawl | Ultimate | |
| Standard Special | Hand Grenade | |
| Side Special | Remote Controlled Missile | |
| Up Special | Cypher | |
| Down Special | C4 | |
| Final Smash | Grenade Launcher | Covering Fire |