Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher.
You've developed the skills necessary to hold your own in close-quarters grappling. You gain the following benefits:
- You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to grapple a creature you can see.
- You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature you are grappling.
- When you successfully start a grapple, you can deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage to the grappled creature. Until the grapple ends, you can also deal this damage to the creature whenever you hit it with a melee attack.
- When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can attempt to grapple the target, rather than making an opportunity attack.