Critical Damage | Elden Ring Wiki (2024)

Critical Damageisone of the Damage Typesin Elden Ring. It is a special damage type that is dealt in specific situations. Damage types area major part of the calculation that determines how much damage is dealt in Combatand are affected by many factors includingyour equipment, skills, and temporary buffs.

Elden RingCritical DamageGuide

Critical Damage is a special type of damage stat that can be found on all Weapons. Critical Damage is a modifier used when calculating the damage dealt by critical attacks.

Critical attacks are powerfulmoves that can be performed under specific conditions. There are several situations where performing a critical attack is possible in Elden Ring:

• Attacking certain enemies from behind (known as a "backstab"). This deals less damage than other forms of crit.
• Attacking certain enemies in a vulnerable state due to having been parried by the player (known as a "riposte").
• Attacking certain enemies in a vulnerable state due to being afflicted with the Sleepstatus.
• Attacking enemies in a vulnerable state due to being dismounted from their horse. This can be performed to enemies on horseback, such as Mounted Knight and Night's Cavalry.
• Attacking certain enemies in a vulnerable state due to having their Stance broken. In the case of some large enemies and Bosses, they can be put into a vulnerable state after dealing enough damage to certain body parts, or after dealing enough damage in general.

If performed correctly, the player and the target are locked in a short animation where the player performs a highly damaging attack, often finishing off weaker enemies instantly. The animation varies by Weapon typeand neither the player nor the target can be damaged by outside sources until the animation has finished.

Critical Damage Invulnerability

• During a critical attack animation, the player is invulnerable to damage including Fall Damage (it is possible to avoid a lethal fall by performing critical attack on an enemy as the player falls off a ledge)

  

Critical Damage and Weapons

All Weapons in Elden Ring possess the Critical Damage stat, and most can be used to perform a critical attack. This stat affects how much damage critical hits deal.

Mostweapons possess a crit damage stat of 100, with some exceptions:

• The Misericordehas the highest value (140)
• The second highest is shared between the Rapierand Dagger(130)
• Most other Daggersand Claws(110)
• Exceptions within other weapon types are noted in the table below:

Note that weapon type also has animpact on the critical damage. For example, daggers innately deal more critical damage than other weapon types.Erdsteel Dagger does4.4x damage on a riposte while Lordsworn's Greatswordonly does 2.75x, even though both have a critical value of 110.

Here are all the melee weapon types in descending order of critical damage with their respective riposte multipliers (assuming critical damage is 100):

• Daggers(4.0x)
• Claws, Fists(0.5x+3.0x)
• Thrusting Swords(3.3x)
• Axes, Flails, Hammers(0.5x+2.75x)
• Curved Swords, Katanas, Straight Swords, Twinblades(3.0x)
• Halberds, Spears(2.8x)
• Colossal Swords, Colossal Weapons, Curved Greatswords, Greataxes, Greathammers, Greatswords(0.5x+2.0x)
• Great Spears, Heavy Thrusting Swords, Reapers(2.4x)

Whips, ranged weapons and spell implements cannot be used for critical hits, despite displaying a critical damage stat of (100).

Increasing Critical Damage Donein Elden Ring

Critical Damage can be increased by equipping the following:

• Dagger Talisman (increases damage of critical hits by 17%)

Increasing Resistance to Critical Damagein Elden Ring

Critical Damage dealt to the player can be reduced by equipping the following:

• Crucible Scale Talisman

Elden Ring Critical Damage Notes & Tips

• Ripostes do a lot more damage than backstabs.

The following talismans add effects to critical attacks:

• Assassin's Cerulean Dagger (critical hits restore FP)
• Assassin's Crimson Dagger (critical hits restore HP)

Unlike many games, critical hits are deliberately performed actionsrather than a random bonus that may occur for a given attack.

Some descriptions within the game may refer to dealing 'critical hits' instead of specifying critical damage. The above mentioned two talismans are some examples.