WWE 2K24: Tips and Tricks for Ground Attack, Grapple Reversals

WWE 2K24 brings an enhanced system for ground attacks and grapple reversals, but mastering these skills is crucial to avoid frustration in offline and online matches. This guide provides straightforward tips to improve your ground defense strategies.

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Reversing Grounded Grapple Moves

The improved reversal prompts in WWE 2K24 help players gauge their timing when countering ground attacks. Despite this enhancement, mastering the art of reversals requires understanding your opponent's animations. The following tip can significantly boost your success rate:

Tip: Learn your opponent's animations for a more precise timing of reversals, rather than solely relying on the reversal prompts.

Reversal Settings To Adjust

Customizing reversal settings can make the prompts more forgiving when escaping ground attacks. Follow these simple steps to tweak your options and increase your chances of successfully timing reversals in offline games:

Head into WWE 2K24's options menu.
Select the Balancing tab.
Highlight Ground Attack Reversal Windows.
Increase the slider for improved timing in offline games.

Note: This adjustment does not impact online matches or the MyFaction mode.

Counter Grounded Grapples

With the departure of Yukes, Visual Concepts introduced a new method to counter attacks, grapples, and ground moves in WWE 2K24. This technique involves educated guessing and predicting your opponent's next move. Here's how to counter ground grapples effectively:

Countering/Breaking Ground Grapples

To execute a successful counter, anticipate your opponent's move and press the corresponding button accordingly:

Strong Grapple: Press X on PlayStation or A on Xbox.
Light Grapple: Press Square on PlayStation or X on Xbox.

Tip: You can repeatedly press the counter/grapple breaker button before the opponent attacks; it doesn't require precise timing like the reversal button.

Counter Grounded Submissions

Avoiding significant damage from submissions is crucial in WWE 2K24. To counter a potential submission hold from any position, press the Circle button on PlayStation or B on Xbox.