The Smashing Claw is an aerial gauntlet combo finisher in the Lords of Shadow games. It is performed by holding the Area Attack button down while descending and can be performed after any non-finishing aerial attack. The finisher will drag aerial enemies to the ground. In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Dracula will first perform his normal Area Attack in the air and then switch the direction of his swing as the claws spin all the way around him.
It is the Chaos Claws equivalent of the Spinning Chain.