Tether recovery
A tether recovery is a type of recovery move where the player latches onto the side of an arena with an extendable item/hook. If there is a nearby ledge when this is used, the tether will automatically snap to it. Pressing the standard attack button after grappling a ledge will pull the character to that ledge. If the ledge is currently occupied when a tether recovery is used, it will fail to grab. If a player ledge-drops after tethering, they can re-tether. A similar move in SSBM (called the Wall-grapple) existed for Link, Young Link and Samus; however, the difference between the two moves is that a tether seeks out a ledge, while wall-grapples activate when they touch any wall. In addition, throw based Tether Recoveries, like those that were Wall Grapples in Melee, no longer put characters in a helpless animation if they miss, although Up Special tether recoveries do (With the exception of Zero Suit Samus).
Many of these moves have longer range than regular recoveries and also home in on the ledge, allowing for better control. On the downside, they can be edgehogged, making the recovery useless (although, if done correctly, the player can take his/her enemies down with him/her if the tether hits the opponent). In addition, none of the other players can grab the ledge while a player is attached to it with a tether, making it a way to edgehog the other players. Tether Recoveries can't work on ledges like drop blocks and icy edges.
List of Tether Recoveries
Up Specials:
- Ice Climbers - Belay (within a certain range)
- Zero Suit Samus - Plasma Wire
- Ivysaur - Vine Whip
- Olimar - Pikmin Chain
Side Specials:
Grab Airs:
- Note that characters that have Tether Recoveries as a special move cannot use their extended grab as one.
Grab Air
A Grab Air (also know by the technical term Zair) is an aerial attack that utilizes a character's grab attack in the air. It can also be used as a Tether Recovery. Link, Samus, Young Link, Lucas, and Toon Link are the only characters with this ability. However, Lucas's Grab Air does no damage and has no knockback, and is for recovery purposes only. Grab Airs are performed simply by pressing the grab button while in the air.
Grab Airs inflict little damage and have very little KO potential. However, they have long range, and can be used to surprise an opponent. A short hop followed by a Grab Air can be useful for spacing. They are also considerably more useful in SSBB than in SSBM, due to no lag upon landing, contrary to the game's lack of L-cancel. In both games characters with it can cancel an air dodge with Zair, which in Brawl it allows one to Zair or tether recovery without dropping a held item. Another difference between the two games is that Zairs do not cause a character to go into a helpless state in Brawl, allowing for repeated usage more easily, as well as being able to safely use the move off of the stage.
If Link, Toon Link, or Samus use their grab air right before they are star KO'd(i.e. they're in the air, but not off the screen), they will not be star KO'd, but will instead be KO'd in the same manner as they would if they were KO'd off the side.
List of Grab Airs
- Link (Melee) - Shoots his Hookshot forwards. Very low power and high ending lag.
- Link (Brawl) - Shoots his Clawshot forwards. Long range, but not as long as Samus' Zair. Two hits, 4% first hit, 6% second hit. Can "combo" into a Boosted up smash. Good spacing move.
- Lucas (Brawl) - Thrusts his Rope Snake forward. No damage.
- Samus (Melee) - Extends her Grapple Beam. Can be cancelled by dropping a bomb before Zairing.
- Samus (Brawl) - Extends her Grapple Beam. Has great range and speed making it a very good spacing move. Does 4%, 7% if hit with the tip. Commonly considered Samus's best spacing move, being also a good edge-guarding move.
- Toon Link (Brawl) - Shoots his Hookshot forwards. Short range compared to Link and Samus' Zair, altough due it´s shorth height, it´s more easy to hit grounded opponents. 4%. "Combos" into U-smash and into aerials. Very useful for kill combos.
- Young Link (Melee) - Shoots his Hookshot forwards.
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| Attacks in the Super Smash Bros. series | |
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| Standard ground attacks | Neutral attack · Dash attack |
| Tilt attacks | Forward tilt · Up tilt · Down tilt · Crouching attack |
| Smash attacks | Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash |
| Aerial attacks | Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial · Grab aerial · Glide attack |
| Throws | Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw |
| Get-up attacks | Floor attack · Edge attack |
| Special moves | Neutral special move · Side special move · Up special move · Down special move · Command-input move · Final Smash |
