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* A '''critical hit''' occurs randomly (with a 9% chance, subject to [[Critical Hit Chance|certain modifiers]]) when hitting with a ranged or melee attack, as well as when casting spells as of August 12, 2009. A critical hit will '''always''' hit the monster, regardless of your actual [[Hit Chance|hit chance]]. It also increases the amount of [[Weapon Damage|damage]] you deal to your [[Monster_Compendium|opponent]].  Specifically, it doubles the weapon power component of the damage:
  weapon damage = (a term based on your stats vs. monster's defense)
                  + Main weapon damage &times; crit &times; tsfactor            
                  + Offhand weapon damage
                  + bonus melee damage                              
                  + bonus elemental damage

  spell damage = (crit &times; base spell damage + bonus absolute spell damage) &times; (1 + bonus percent spell damage)

:Where
:* crit is 1 for a normal hit, 2 for a critical hit, 3 for a critical hit with [[Audacity of the Otter]], or 4 for a critical hit with [[Legendary Luck]];
:* tsfactor is 1 for a normal attack, 2 for a [[Thrust-Smack]], 3 for a [[Lunging Thrust-Smack]], 5 for a [[Bashing Slam Smash]], and 5 for a [[Cleave]].
:*Weapon damage is (10%-20% of weapon power + 0 to 1), or 1 if barehanded.  

* For a comprehensive list of all items that affect the critical hit percentage for weapon attacks, see [[Critical Hit Chance]].  
* For a comprehensive list of all items that affect spell critical hit, see [[Critical Spell Chance]].

Note: Critical hits also apply to healing spells, with the text replaced with 'CRITICAL HEAL!'

Also note that if you would normally miss or make a glancing blow, and instead get a successful critical hit then it changes it to a normal hit, ''not'' a full crit.

==Monster Critical Hits==
Monsters can critical hit too -- but a monster critical hit doesn't cause you any extra damage; it just succeeds in hitting when it otherwise would have missed.  Monster critical hits, like monster [[fumble]]s, occur with a 6% chance per round.  Thus, the total chance of abnormal monster behavior in any given round is 12%.

==Special Interactions==
Several mechanics in the Kingdom interact specially with critical hits:
*{{plural|7-inch discus}} grant three turns of [[Snobby]] (+50% to all attributes)
*[[flamin' bindle|flamin']], [[freezin' bindle|freezin']], [[stinkin' bindle|stinkin']], [[spooky bindle|spooky]], and {{plural|sleazy bindle}} do extra damage of the corresponding element
*{{plural|bindlestocking}} drop an item (once per combat only)
*{{plural|clockwork sword}} heal
*{{plural|clockwork staff}} restore MP
*{{plural|clockwork crossbow}} weaken enemies (and will trigger even in the off-hand)
*{{plural|elven whittling knife}} do additional damage (20% of the monster's remaining HP)
*{{plural|fish bazooka}} do extra physical damage
*{{plural|Hodgman's whackin' stick}} do extra perfect elemental damage or physical damage
*{{plural|mafia pointer finger ring}} grants twice the monster's base meat drop once per combat
*[[Mer-kin dodgeball|Mer-kin]] [[Mer-kin dragnet|gladiator]] [[Mer-kin switchblade|weapons]] grant special skills after enough underwater critical hits
*{{plural|Mer-kin hookspear}} give extra Meat
*{{plural|Meteoid ice beam}} stagger
*{{plural|murderbot whip}} deal an additional 1000 physical damage
*{{plural|non-stick pugil stick}} stun
*{{plural|Red Rover BB gun}} either put your target's or your eye out
*{{plural|rusty speargun}} deal an additional 50-60 physical damage
*[[Skullcracker]] occasionally stuns
*{{plural|Spirit Precipice}} do 12-24 damage to the player
*{{plural|Spooky Putty ball}} can ricochet and do extra attacks
*{{plural|sugar shank}} cause additional bleeding that round and additional rounds of combat
*{{plural|sugar shotgun}} block
*{{plural|Truthsayer}} cause the player to blurt out a <[[Gourd conspiracies|conspiracy theory]]>
*{{plural|vampire collar}} heal
*[[Virulence]] improves [[Infectious Bite]] ([[Zombie Slayer|Zombie Master]] only)
*{{plural|V for Vivala mask}} do various things in combat

[[V for Vivala mask]] critical hit effects will override most other special effects from critical hits. The exception is the end-of-combat stat bonus from the [[V for Vivala mask]].

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