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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7378780" data-attributes="member: 284">Per Jeremy Crawford,  with most bonus actions you get to decide the timing.   He said this in reference to the Shield Master bonus action shove, but it would apply to this as well.  If you do take the bonus action, you are then locked into using the "Attack Action" for your main action.  If they are prone when you make your melee attack, you would have Advantage as normal. <a href="https://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/01/29/shield-master-feat/" target="_blank">https://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/01/29/shield-master-feat/</a>(side note: Weirdly, the monk bonus action "flurry of blows" specifies that it comes "immediately after you take the Attack Action" while the bonus unarmed strike that doesn't cost a ki point doesn't have this restriction.)</blockquote>