This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article.(September 2023)
This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.(October 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Critical hit" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
In many role-playing games and video games, a critical hit (or crit) is a chance that a successful attack will deal more damage than a normal blow.
The concept of critical hits originates from wargames and role-playing games, as a way to simulate luck, and crossed over into video games in the 1986 JRPG Dragon Quest,[1] set at a fixed rate of 1/64 (~1.56%).[2] However, many other video games that use critical hits may have ways of increasing the likelihood of them occurring, such as by increasing the player character's level or attack statistic.[2]
Both role-playing games and video games may also opt to use a less traditional version of critical hits, either by using different names,[3] offering different effects than dealing more damage,[2] including specific targets or weakpoint(s),[4] and rarely by the inclusion of critical miss effects.[5]
^"Critical Hits". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^ abc"Critical Hit". Dragon Quest Wiki. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^"Smash hit". Wikibound. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^"Headshot". Team Fortress 2 Official Wiki. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^"Botch". Project: Redcap. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
games, a criticalhit (or crit) is a chance that a successful attack will deal more damage than a normal blow. The concept of criticalhits originates...
Hit Me Hard and Soft is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, released on May 17, 2024, through Darkroom and Interscope...
original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2018. "A CriticalHit! Talking Season Two With Critical Role's Matthew Mercer and Liam O'Brien". Tabletop Gaming...
Black, Consume the Fire, Femme Fatale, and the video-game supergroup CriticalHit. In 2014, Strauss was the official in-house guitarist for the Los Angeles...
February 21, 2024. "Leverage is returning as IMDb's first original series". CriticalHit. April 29, 2020. Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved...
Misérables). Paul Giamatti played John Adams. The series was a critical and awards season hit and won 13 Primetime Emmy Awards overtaking Angels in America...
Cronyn, Wilford Brimley, and Brian Dennehy. This film was also a critical and financial hit and won a Best Supporting Actor award for Don Ameche. In 1988...
co-choreographed by Bennett and Bob Avian. An unprecedented box office and criticalhit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in...
encountered controversies, the film turned out to be a moderate commercial and criticalhit. In 2012, he produced Ustad Hotel which won three National Film Awards...
Womack. Their first album, Love Wars, released by Elektra Records, was a criticalhit. "Baby I'm Scared of You" was a Top 40 R&B single. Other albums included...
young adult fantasy". CriticalHit. Retrieved 23 February 2023. Bisset, Jennifer (27 April 2021). "Shadow and Bone review: Hit Netflix fantasy lacks one...
nuclear engineering, a critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. The critical mass of a fissionable...
a then unknown TV director John Badham to make his feature debut, a criticalhit set in the 1930s Negro National League (1920–1931) (twenty years later...
Watford. The game's soundtrack was provided by Russian composer Kai Engel. CriticalHit magazine hailed the game as a "concentrated, clever exploration of life...
Condition Critical is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. Released in 1984, it was not nearly as successful as its predecessor...
was in Alan Alda's The Four Seasons (1981) which was a financial and criticalhit and starred Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, and Jack Weston...
"Turn Down for What", which became both a commercial hit charting in several countries and a criticalhit. Rolling Stone voted "Turn Down for What" as the...
time[failed verification]; the sequel sold 22 million tickets and was a criticalhit. Taking note of the marketing success of Scream, the promotional materials...
Craft. The year of 1999 saw Wick produce both the critical-hit Girl, Interrupted and the box-office hit Stuart Little. The following year brought with it...
to: Critical theory Critical thinking Criticalhit, an especially successful attack in role-playing games and computer and video games Critical legal...
Global Information
