Critical hit

Critical hits occur randomly when striking enemies. By default, each successful hit on an enemy has a 4% chance of being a "critical hit", dealing approximately double the usual damage of the weapon in use with 40% more knockback. A small number of weapons have a base critical strike chance that is higher than the 4% default. In addition, certain modifiers, armor bonuses, accessories, and buffs can boost the player's effective critical strike chance.

Visually, critical hits are displayed as slightly exaggerated bold damage numbers that linger on-screen for a longer period and travel slightly higher than damage numbers from ordinary hits.

Minions cannot normally deal critical hits, only by wearing a full set of Monk armor or Shinobi Infiltrator armor with any of the Lightning Aura sentry summons or by using a Morning Star or Kaleidoscope with any minion can crits be dealt at a fixed rate depending on which is used. The armor set bonuses and whip effects can be stacked for a maximum of 35% crit chance.

Players attacking other players in PvP will also not deal critical hits.

Weapons with non-standard base critical strike chance

Weapon	Base Critical Chance
Musket Internal Item ID: 96	11%
Sunfury Internal Item ID: 220	11% / 4%
Poisoned Knife Internal Item ID: 287	8%
Ice Boomerang Internal Item ID: 670	6% / 4%
Keybrand Internal Item ID: 671	17% / 4%
Marrow Internal Item ID: 682	9%
Ice Blade Internal Item ID: 724	6%
Sniper Rifle Internal Item ID: 1254	29% / 19%
Staff of Earth Internal Item ID: 1296	24%
S.D.M.G. Internal Item ID: 1553	14% / 4%
Candy Corn Rifle Internal Item ID: 1782	10%
Jack 'O Lantern Launcher Internal Item ID: 1784	10%
Stake Launcher Internal Item ID: 1835	14%
Pulse Bow Internal Item ID: 2223	11%
Revolver Internal Item ID: 2269	9%
Katana Internal Item ID: 2273	19%
Obsidian Swordfish Internal Item ID: 2331	24%
Shadowflame Bow Internal Item ID: 3052	7%
Shadowflame Hex Doll Internal Item ID: 3053	7%
Shadowflame Knife Internal Item ID: 3054	7%
Wand of Sparking Internal Item ID: 3069	14%
Slap Hand Internal Item ID: 3258	19%
Kraken Internal Item ID: 3291	14% / 4%
Paintball Gun Internal Item ID: 3350	11%
Terrarian Internal Item ID: 3389	14%
Sky Fracture Internal Item ID: 3787	24%
Aerial Bane Internal Item ID: 3859	7%
Morning Star Internal Item ID: 4679	14%
Stellar Tune Internal Item ID: 4715	24%
First Fractal Internal Item ID: 4722	14%
Starlight Internal Item ID: 4923	14%
Zenith Internal Item ID: 4956	14%

Boost gear

Melee

Item	Critical Chance
Solar Flare Helmet	+26%
Moon Charm	+2% (during night)
Ale	+2%
Mythril Helmet	+5%
Adamantite Helmet	+7%
Titanium Mask	+8%
Hallowed Mask	+10%
Chlorophyte Mask	+6%
Turtle Scale Mail	+8%
Turtle Leggings	+4%
Beetle Scale Mail	+8%
Beetle Shell	+5%
Frost Breastplate	+11%
Squire's Greaves	+20%
Monk's Pants	+10%
Valhalla Knight's Greaves	+20%
Shinobi Infiltrator's Pants	+20%

Ranged

Item	Critical Chance
Fossil Helmet ( only)	+3%
Fossil Plate ( only)	+3%
Fossil Greaves ( only)	+3%
Cobalt Mask	+6%
Mythril Hat	+7%
Adamantite Mask	+8%
Palladium Helmet	+9%
Orichalcum Helmet	+15%
Titanium Helmet	+7%
Hallowed Helmet	+8%
Shroomite Headpiece (All helmets)	+5%
Shroomite Breastplate	+13%
Shroomite Leggings	+7%
Vortex Helmet	+7%
Vortex Breastplate	+12%
Vortex Leggings	+8%
Cloak from Shroomite armor	Up to +10%
Cloak from Vortex armor	Up to +20%
Frost Breastplate	+11%
Huntress's Wig	+10%
Red Riding Hood	+10%
Sniper Scope	+10%
Titan Helmet (  only)	+10%
Titan Mail (  only)	+10%
Ninja Hood ( only)	+3%
Ninja Shirt ( only)	+3%
Ninja Pants ( only)	+3%

Magic

Item	Critical Chance
Crystal Ball	+2%
Gypsy Robe	+6%
Magic Hat	+7%
Jungle armor	+12% / 9%
Cobalt Hat	+9%
Adamantite Headgear	+11%
Palladium Headgear	+7%
Orichalcum Headgear	+18%
Titanium Headgear	+7%
Hallowed Headgear	+12%
Spectre Mask	+5%
Spectre Robe	+7%
Wizard Hat with a Robe	+10%
Apprentice's Trousers	+20%
Dark Artist's Leggings	+25%
Spectral Headgear (  only)	+15%
Spectral Armor (  only)	+10%

All

Item	Critical Chance
Bowl of Soup	+2%
Rage Potion	+10%
Gi	+5%
Cobalt Breastplate	+5%
Mythril Greaves	+3%
Adamantite Leggings	+4%
Palladium Breastplate	+2%
Palladium Leggings	+1%
Orichalcum Breastplate	+6%
Titanium Breastplate	+3%
Titanium Leggings	+3%
Hallowed Plate Mail	+7%
Chlorophyte Plate Mail	+7%
Chlorophyte Greaves	+8%
Precise or Lucky prefix on accessories	+2% or +4%
Destroyer Emblem	+8%
Eye of the Golem	+10%
Putrid Scent	+5%
Celestial Stone	+2%
Celestial Shell	+2%
Sun Stone	+2%
Moon Stone	+2%
Reforged weapons	Max +5%
Dragon Mask (  only)	+15%
Dragon Breastplate (  only)	+10%

Notes

• Damage is doubled after being reduced by defense.
• When held, weapon modifiers affect all outgoing critical hits from that class's projectiles. Weapon modifiers will cease affecting critical chance when not selected.
• While ammo might seem to be affected by crit bonuses, crit chance actually entirely depends on weapon stats.
• It is generally best to attempt to equalize your total accessory crit chance bonus and your total accessory damage bonus, as this will maximize your overall DPS.

Maximizing critical hits

Melee

• Maximum critical strike chance is 146%^Verify(It appears that the suggested build to reach this critical strike chance makes use of multiple celestial items, which no longer stack on desktop as of 1.4), attained by combining the following at night:

• Solar Flare Helmet
• Frost Breastplate
• Valhalla Knight's Greaves
• Obsidian Swordfish
  (Godly/Demonic/Zealous)
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Putrid Scent
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Shell
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup
• Ale

• Although the Psycho Knife will increase critical strike chance by 30% at its stealth mode, the critical strike chance shown in the tooltip will be 100% when the actual critical strike chance is higher than 100%.

  Melee

• Maximum critical chance is 121%, attained by combining the following:

• Dragon Mask
• Frost Breastplate
• Chlorophyte Greaves
• Obsidian Swordfish
  (Godly/Demonic/Zealous)
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Charm
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup
• Ale

• Dragon Mask can be swapped with Hallowed Mask.
• As this chance caps at 100%, you can skip minor items like Celestial Stone (-2), Moon Stone (-2), Moon Charm (-2) or switch to Chlorophyte armor (-8) and still have 100% chance.

Ranged

• Maximum critical strike chance is 154%, attained by combining the following:

• Vortex armor
  (with activated set bonus)
• Sniper Rifle
  (Unreal/Godly/Demonic/Zealous)
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Sniper Scope
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Putrid Scent
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup

  Ranged

• Maximum critical strike chance is 124%, attained by combining the following:

• Orichalcum Helmet
• Shroomite Breastplate
• Chlorophyte Greaves
• Sniper Rifle
  (Unreal)
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Sniper Scope
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup

• As this chance caps at 100%, you can skip minor items like Celestial Stone (-2) or Moon Stone (-2) and switch to full Shroomite armor (-10) and still have 100% chance. It is even possible to use a different weapon (-15) as the stealth effect from the Shroomite armor will add an extra 10% back when necessary.

Magic

• Maximum critical strike chance is 148%, attained by combining the following:

• Orichalcum Headgear
• Nebula Breastplate
• Dark Artist's Leggings
• Sky Fracture
  (Mythical/Godly/Demonic/Zealous)
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Putrid Scent
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Shell
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup
• Crystal Ball
• Staff of Earth

  Magic

• Maximum critical strike chance is 94%, attained by combining the following with any Mythical weapon and any Lucky accessory:

• Orichalcum Headgear
• Spectre Robe
• Chlorophyte Greaves
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup
• Crystal Ball

• Spectre Robe can be swapped with Hallowed Plate Mail or Chlorophyte Plate Mail.
• Also, if the last accessory is a Lucky Sniper Scope, you will have a total critical strike chance of 104%.

Throwing

• Maximum critical strike chance is 89%, attained by combining the following:

• Chlorophyte Plate Mail
• Fossil Greaves
• Bone Glove
  (Unreal/Godly/Demonic/Zealous)
• Eye of the Golem
  (Lucky)
• Destroyer Emblem
  (Lucky)
• Putrid Scent
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Shell
  (Lucky)
• Celestial Stone
  (Lucky)
• Moon Stone
  (Lucky)
• Rage Potion
• Bowl of Soup

Note that this is only mobile and console content,and that on pc thrower has been switched to ranged

• Chlorophyte Plate Mail can be swapped with Hallowed Plate Mail.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.2.1.2: Critical Strike increase on accessory reforges have been doubled. Example: The Lucky Reforge was boosted from 2% to 4%.

• Desktop 1.0.6: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.