Hand Grenade

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Snake's Hand Grenade.

Hand Grenade is Snake's neutral special move 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 physically hit by the grenade (before it explodes), he/she will receive 1-5% damage, but will never cause the opponent to flinch. Grenades inflict around 12% damage with decent vertical knockback.

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 the special button (as it is thrown when the button is released) to reduce the time between the moment it's thrown and the moment it detonates—a grenade 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. This can be used as a defensive measure by shielding and dropping the grenade to Snake's feet while the opponent attacks. Not only will Snake block the attack, but the explosion will hurt the opponent and not affect Snake because his shield is still up. Snake can then follow up with an aerial to KO the opponent. "Cooking" the grenade helps to minimize the time before the grenade explodes.

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. Snake can quickly shield after pulling out a grenade then repeat it again, and can throw both grenades quickly at an enemy and explode each one in the process. The blast radius will be very large and will inflict around 25% from both grenades. This must be done quickly because dropping and picking the grenades takes two seconds and must throw the first grenade immediately followed by the second. Snake will always pick up the grenade that has been out longer.

The great advantage of the Grenade is that the explosion isn't affected by stale move negation. It does, however count in the number of moves last moved towards Stale-Move Negation, so it also refreshes Snake's other moves. Hitting with the grenade and explosion both count towards Stale-Move Negation.

The grenade has a delay time of 3 seconds. This is printed on the grenade.

Types of throws

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  Soft throw
  Tilt back while throwing.

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  Mid throw
  Don't tilt at all while throwing.

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  Strong throw
  Tilt forward while throwing.

Origin

Introduced in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, 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.

Trivia

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A closeup view of the grenade

• The grenades Snake uses appear to be M67 fragmentation grenades.
• The text on the grenades reads: "Grenade Delay 3.0" and under "SN:2305-146"

Snake's special moves

Neutral special	Hand Grenade
Side special	Remote Missile
Up special	Cypher
Down special	C4
Final Smash	Grenade Launcher	Covering Fire