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When a move lands a critical hit, the attacker's level will be doubled during [[damage]] calculation, which approximately (but not quite) doubles the damage dealt. A rough approximation for the damage multiplier is <math display="inline">\frac{2L + 5}{L + 5}</math> where L is the attacker's level; as a result, lower-leveled Pokémon have a smaller critical hit boost than higher-leveled Pokémon. For example, a level 5 Pokémon will inflict about 1.5× damage on a critical hit, while a level 20 Pokémon will inflict 1.8× and a level 95 Pokémon will inflict 1.95×.

===Probability===

==Generation II onwards==

===Damage===

In Generation II, when a move scores a critical hit, all stat stage modifiers, the halved Attack from burn, and the defensive boosts from screens ({{m|Light Screen}} and {{m|Reflect}}) are ignored if the target's defending stat stage ({{stat|Defense}} or {{stat|Special Defense}}) is greater than or equal to the attacker's attacking stat stage ({{stat|Attack}} or {{stat|Special Attack}}).

If a Pokémon with the {{a|Sniper}} Ability gets a critical hit, the damage dealt will be multiplied by an additional factor of 1.5.

===Probability===

{| class="roundy" cellpadding="3" style="margin: auto; background: #{{status color}}; border: 3px solid #{{status color dark}}"

! rowspan=2 style="background:#{{status color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Stage

|- style="background:#{{status color light}}"

! Gen VI

! Gen VII onwards

|- style="background:#fff"

| +0

| 1/16 (6.25%)

| 1/16 (6.25%)

|- style="background:#fff"

| +1

| 1/8 (12.5%)

| 1/8 (12.5%)

|- style="background:#fff"

| +2

| 1/4 (25%)

| 1/2 (50%)

|-

| style="background:#fff" | +3

| rowspan=2 style="background:#fff" | Always (100%)

| rowspan=2 style="background:#fff; {{roundybr|5px}}" | Always (100%)

|-

| style="background:#fff; {{roundybl|5px}}" | +4 and above

| style="background:#fff" | 1/2 (50%)

|}

An attacking move will start out at stage 0, but there are several ways to increase a move's stage as detailed in the table below.

! style="background:#{{physical color}}" | Held item

! style="background:#{{physical color}}" | Ability

|- style="background:#FFF"

! style="background:#{{physical color light}}" | +1 stage

[[Scope Lens]]</ab>

| {{a|Super Luck}}

| {{m|G-Max Chi Strike}}

|- style="background:#FFF"

! style="background:#{{physical color light}}" | +2 stages

| <ab>{{m|10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt}}

| <ab>[[Leek|Stick/Leek]] (for {{p|Farfetch'd}} or {{p|Sirfetch'd}} only)

[[Lucky Punch]] (for {{p|Chansey}} only)</ab>

| <ab>{{m|Focus Energy}} / [[Dire Hit]]

  <small>(Gen II: +1 stage)</small>

[[Lansat Berry]]

Z-{{m|Foresight}}, Z-{{m|Sleep Talk}}, Z-{{m|Tailwind}}, Z-{{m|Acupressure}}, Z-{{m|Heart Swap}}

{{DL|Wonder Launcher|Dire Hit 2}} ([[Wonder Launcher]] only)</ab>

|-

| style="background:#FFF" | &mdash;

| style="background:#FFF" | &mdash;

| style="background:#FFF" | &mdash;

| style="background:#FFF; {{roundybr|5px}}" | {{DL|Wonder Launcher|Dire Hit 3}} ([[Wonder Launcher]] only)

|}

====Moves that cannot score a critical hit====

Generations II and III introduced a handful of moves that cannot score a critical hit. They are denoted by the ✔ symbol in the table below.

Starting in Generation V, all damaging moves, except {{cat|moves that deal direct damage}} and confusion damage, can score a critical hit.

Pokémon with the Ability {{a|Merciless}} will always score critical hits on {{status|poisoned}} Pokémon (unless prevented by one of the above effects).

==In side-games==

====Rescue Team and Explorers====

There are some differences from how critical works in main series:

{| class="roundtable" style="margin:auto; background: #{{MD Red color}}; border: 3px solid #{{MD Time color}}"

===Pokémon Masters EX===

Here are some notable qualities of critical hits in this game:

** Attack moves passively have their base critical-hit rates set to 0, which means that using one with its user's critical-hit rate raised to three stat ranks yields an 100% chance to land a critical hit (per target).

* Some effects allow critical hits to land more easily [from attack moves like Slash or Spacial Rend, sync moves like Moonlight Leaf Blade, or skills like Zero In 1, Soften Up 1 (only for sync moves), Dire Rain 1, etc.].

** Each skill with this effect is always accompanied by a one or a two, and if that skill's conditions are met, then it passively raises critical-hit rate by that number.

* Applying the Critical Hit Next effect on a sync pair guarantees that their next attack/sync move will be a critical hit, except in certain circumstances.

* Critical hits ignore effects of physical damage reduction (from Reflect etc.) and special damage reduction (from Light Screen etc.).

* Critical-Hit Defense effects temporarily protect all pairs in its field of play from critical hits. The move {{m|Defog}} removes this effect from opposing fields of play.

critical hits

|- style="background:#fff"

| Never (0%)

|- style="background:#fff"

| 1/8 (12.5%)

|- style="background:#fff"

| Always (100%)

|}

==In the anime==

[[File:Bea Machamp G-Max Chi Strike effect.png|thumb|250px|The enhancements that [[Bea]]'s {{p|Machamp}} received from {{m|G-Max Chi Strike}}'s effects]]

In ''[[AG128|Shocks and Bonds]]'', during Ash's match against [[Clark]] in the [[Ever Grande Conference]], [[Ash's Glalie]] defeated Clark's {{p|Charizard}} with a critical hit from {{m|Headbutt}}, giving Ash the victory.

In ''[[JN060|Beyond Chivalry… Aiming to be a Leek Master!]]'', during a [[World Coronation Series]] {{pkmn|battle}}, Ash's {{p|Farfetch'd}} landed three critical hits on [[Rinto]]'s {{p|Gallade}} with {{m|Fury Cutter}}, causing the {{pkmn|category|Wild Duck Pokémon}} to evolve into a {{AP|Sirfetch'd}}.

==In other languages==