How to Land Critical Hits and its Benefits

You can land Critical Hits during battle in Metaphor: ReFantazio by building up your luck and agility stats, targeting enemy weakness, or improving your skills. Read on to discover the different ways to get Critical Hits and its benefits in the game!

How to Land Critical Hits

Increase Your Agility and Luck Stats

Increasing your Agility and Luck Stats will improve your chances of getting a Critical Hit. Allocate points here when you level up to improve your chances of getting critical hits.

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Physical Skills that Have Critical Hits

Some Physical Skills can increase the chance of getting a Critical Hit. Depending on their effects some skills are guaranteed to be Critical Hits while some are chances only, so make sure to use them wisely. Remember that critical hits cannot occur with skills other than physical attacks .

Active Skills that Affect Critical Hits

Learning active skills that improve your Critical Hit rate is one of the best ways to get them.

Lv.	Skill	Type	Description
-	Fortune Slots	Almighty	Low Hit Rate, but all hits deal critical physical Almighty damage.
1	Gold Attack	Almighty	Deals weak physical Almighty damage to one enemy. High Critical Rate.
1	Gold Rush	Almighty	Deals heavy physical Almighty damage with a high Critical Rate to one enemy.
1	Summon Goblin King	Slash	Low Hit Rate, but all hits deal critical physical Slash damage.
2	Brave Blade	Slash	Deals heavy physical Slash damage to one enemy. High Critical Rate.
13	Critical Strike	Slash	Low Hit Rate, but all hits deal critical physical Slash damage.
-	Adventurer's Curiosity	Support	Increases Critical Rate for all allies for 3 turns.
2	Rebellion	Support	Increases Critical Rate for one ally for 3 turns.

List of Passive Skills

It is also possible to increase the critical hit rate with passive skills. Since these are always active during battle it is highly recommended to have them.

Lv.	Skill	Type	Description
3	Diligent Desciple	Passive	Increases critical hit rate by 5%. Boost increases further if Archetypes of the same Lineage are present.
3	High Voltage	Passive	Increases critical hit rate when knocking out an enemy and beginning Squad Battle.
10	Spirit of Adversity	Passive	Increases critical hit rate when wielder is mortally wounded.
16	Critical Trade	Passive	Doubles chance of dealing a critical hit to an enemy.
20	Noble Berserker's Soul	Passive	If wielder lands a critical hit with a physical attack, no Turn Icon is lost.
3	Diligent Discipline	Passive	Increases critical hit rate by 5%. Boost increases further if Archetypes of the same Lineage are present.

Use Equipment that Improve Critical Hits

There are also equipment that you can use to improve your critical hit rate.

List of All Equipment

List of Items that Improve Critical Hits

You can also use items to temporarily improve your Critical Hit rate.

List of All Items

Benefits of Critical Hits

Attack Damage is 1.5x Higher

When a Critical Hit occurs, the power of the skill is multiplied by 1.5. This is useful when you want to deal higher damage, especially in boss battles.

Less MP Consumption on Critical Hits

When a Critical Hit occurs, it is possible to halve the MP usage even if a weak point attack is not performed.

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