Piranha Plant (SSBU)/Grab

Piranha Plant grab hitbox visualization.

Piranha Plant dash grab hitbox visualization.

Piranha Plant pivot grab hitbox visualization.

Overview

Piranha Plant reaches out with the leaf farthest from the camera. While it is among the fastest grabs in the game, Piranha Plant's grabs are also very short-ranged, making it difficult to get grabs outright in neutral without conditioning the opponent to shield, and weakens its usage out-of-shield as well. Even then, Piranha Plant's grab is still important, as its down throw provides combos, up throw can lead to kills, and forward/back throws are exceptional at setting up edgeguard or ledgetrap scenarios. Grab is also important during ledgetrapping, to negate shields and also deal increased damage with pummels combined with Poison Breath, which can help lead to the up throw kill far earlier. Whilst pivot grab may not provide exceptional range, it has lower endlag than dash grab, and can still be useful to catch landing attempts towards Piranha Plant.

Timing

Standing grab

Grab	6-7
Interruptible	35
Animation length	41

Dash grab

Grab	9-10
Interruptible	43
Animation length	44

Pivot grab

Grab	9-10
Interruptible	37
Animation length	49

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Grab

Interruptible

Piranha Plant's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · Forward tilt (1 · 2) · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial
Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups · Footstooled attack
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash