Opportunity attack
In a fight, everyone is constantly watching for a chance to strike an enemy who is fleeing or passing by. Such a strike is called an opportunity attack.
- Trigger: enemy creature you can see leaves your reach.
- Make one melee attack against the provoking creature.
- The attack interrupts the provoking creature's movement, occurring right before the creature leaves your reach.
- Creatures don't provoke an opportunity attack when they teleport or when someone or something moves them without using their movement, action, or reaction.
You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To make the opportunity attack, you use your reaction to make one melee attack against the provoking creature. The attack occurs right before the creature leaves your reach.
You can avoid provoking an opportunity attack by taking the Disengage action. You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction. For example, you don't provoke an opportunity attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe's reach or if gravity causes you to fall past an enemy.
- name Opportunity attack
- type combat
- display item
- section reaction
- icon ActionOpportunityAttack
- subtitle Enemy leaves reach
- description You can rarely move heedlessly past your foes without putting yourself in danger
- reference PHB, pg. 195.