Critical strike

A critical strike, critical hit, or simply as crit, is a damage effect that deals twice (+100%) of its normal Physical or Magic Damage by default, indicated as critical damage.

A damage can critically strike if:

• the damage, either by basic attack or ability, is capable to deal critical damage
• it has at least 1% critical chance (except for guaranteed crits)

Generally, critical strikes can be triggered from Basic Attacks, with the exception of certain skills and equipment, notably Balmond's  Cyclone Sweep.

Critical chance

“	Chances to deal multiple Damage with Basic Attacks	”
	—MLBB Attribute Guide

“	Chance to cause [critical damage] with [Basic Attack] (including Physical and Magic). The default is 0. A [critical damage] is guaranteed when it is over 100%. There are skills trigger this effect. For example: Layla's Malefic Bomb and the Typhoon effect of Windtalker.	”
	—MLBB Skill Notes

Critical chance or crit rate (also written in title case) is a percentage attribute that increases the probability of a damage to critically strike. The default critical chance is 0%. Unlike other attributes, it is not granted by leveling up, but it can be increased from equipment, emblems and talents, or abilities, which stacks additively.

For example, a hero with a 25% critical chance has a probability to deal one critical strike out of five executed attacks.

Critical damage

“	The ratio of Crit Damage to Basic Damage. The default is 200%.	”
	—MLBB Skill Notes

Critical damage (also written in title case) is a percentage attribute that modifies the damage dealt during a critical strike. The default Crit damage is 200%. It can be increased from equipment, emblems and talents, or abilities, which stacks additively. However, this attribute can also be decreased by a hero's own abilities or the enemy's critical damage reduction attribute.

If the damage succesfully crits, the total damage dealt would be the inital damage of the total critical damage, shown by the formula below:

${\rm {Total\ Critical\ DMG\ dealt}}=DMG\ dealt\times (200\%+Extra\ Critical\ DMG)$

critical damage would be multiplied to the total damage dealt pre-damage calculation.

Guaranteed critical strikes

There are attacks that will deal guaranteed critical strikes regardless of the inherited critical chance:

• Aurora's enhanced skills ( Pride of Ice)
• Estes's enhanced Basic Attack ( Scripture of the Moon Elf)
• Granger's sixth bullet ( Caprice)
• Harith's  Synchro Fission
• Hilda's full-stacked  Power of Wildness
• Karina's enhanced Basic Attack ( Dance of Blades)
• Leomord Basic Attacks against enemies with less than 30% health ( The Oath Keeper)
• Mathilda's enhanced Basic Attack ( Ancestral Guidance)
• Moskov's Basic Attacks that can penetrate through a target ( Spear of Quiescence)
• Natalia's attacks from behind ( Assassin Instinct)
• Yi Sun-shin's enhanced Basic Attacks ( Heavenly Vow)

If  Golden Staff is equipped by the following heroes, a stack of Endless Strike will not add if attacks deal guaranteed critical strikes.

Only Granger, Leomord, Karina, Natalia (enhanced Basic Attack) and Yi Sun-shin whose guaranteed crits' critical damage can be modified while the rest does not.

Types of damages that can critically strike

Enhanced Basic Attacks

All Enhanced Basic Attacks can critically strike. The following heroes, on the other hand, have enhanced Basic Attacks that can critically strike but lacks the necessary components to deal a full count critical strike:

• Aldous's  Contract: Soul Steal (Base Damage and Extra Damage not included)
• Brody's  Abyss Corrosion (Damage scaling with level is not included)
• Clint's  Double Shot (Base Damage not included)
• Masha's  Wild Power (target's Total HP not included)

Additionally, Gatotkaca's enhanced Basic Attack does not benefit from extra critical damage.

Abilities

• Badang's  Fist Crack
• Balmond's  Cyclone Sweep (Physical Attack bonus only)
• Claude's  Battle Side-by-side and  Blazing Duet
• Kimmy's  Energy Transformation (Physical Attack and Magic Power bonus only)
• Layla's  Malefic Bomb
• Ling's  Defiant Sword
• Wanwan's  Crossbow of Tang (Physical Attack bonus only)

Equipment

There are items that give additional damage have the potential to critically strike.

•  Feather of Heaven
•  Windtalker

Sources of critical chance

Increasing critical chance

Equipment

Item	Critical chance	Cost
Berserker's Fury	25%	2250
Javelin	8%	320
Rogue Meteor	10%	900
Scarlet Phantom	25%	2020
Scarlet Phantom Unique Passive-Frenzy	5% (after dealing crit damage)
Windtalker	10%	1820

Emblems

•  Assassin Emblem (3.50%, Level 60)
  •  Fatal (1.20% per level, up to 3.60%)
•  Marksman Emblem (5.00%, Level 60)
  •  Fatal (1.20% per level, up to 3.60%)

Hero abilities

• Bruno's  Mecha Legs: (2% per stack, up to 10 stacks or 20%)
• Lesley's  Lethal Shot: (100% fixed-point physical penetration into critical chance; 50%, only applies to Enhanced Basic Attack])
• Ling's
  •  Cloud Walker (Total Critical Chance × 2)
  •  Finch Poise (1% + (1.5 × hero level)); up to 10%%)

Decreasing critical chance

Because of critical-chance-to-physical-attack conversion, Beatrix is the only hero whose attacks will not critically strike.

Enhanced basic attacks from Chou's  Only Fast and Lapu-Lapu's  Homeland Defender are the only known basic attacks that cannot crit.

This can also be done by equipping  Golden Staff where its Unique Passive Swift converts critical chance to Attack Speed.

Sources of Critical Damage

Increasing critical chance

Equipment

•  Berserker's Fury (40%, costs 2250)

Emblems

•  Marksman Talent  Doom (4.50% per level, up to 13.50%)

Decreasing critical damage

Critical damage reduction

Only  Blade Armor (costs 1960 is the only item that has a critical damage reduction attribute (also written in title case), not to be confused with critical damage reduction applied to heroes. Upon equipping, the wearer will receive -20% critical damage after taking critical damage.

Hero abilities

• Badang's  Fist Crack (-80%, only applied to the skill)
• Ling's  Cloud Walker (-60%)
• Natalia's  Assassin Instinct (-60%)

Counters

There are numerous ways to counter enemies' critical strikes, including the following:

Attributes

• Magic defense (reduces critical magic damage)
• Physical defense (reduces critical physical damage)
• Damage reduction (reduces damage)
• Critical damage reduction (reduces critical damage)

States

• Damage immunity (immune to damage)
• Dodge (immune to basic attacks)
• Untargetability/Invincibility (cannot be targeted by critical strikes)
• Shield (absorbs damage)

Equipment

For Tanks/Supports:

•  Antique Cuirass (skill damage)
•  Blade Armor (Basic Attack damage)
•  Twilight Armor
•  Athena's Shield
•  Radiant Armor

For Physical heroes:

•  Rose Gold Meteor
•  Queen's Wings
•  Wind of Nature

For Magic heroes:

•  Blood Wings
•  Winter Truncheon

Battle Spell

•  Aegis (absorbs damage)
•  Vengeance (reduces damage)
•  Flame Retribution (reduces Physical Attack)

Trivia

• With items alone, a hero can achieve more than 150% critical chance with 6  Scarlet Phantom's or 6  Berserker's Fury's alone.