Critical Strike (Skill)

Critical Strike	急所時威力上昇
	Power Up During Critical Hit
Flavor text Passive Skill Powers up the user's attacks when they become critical hits.

Critical Strike (Japanese: 急所時威力上昇 Power Up During Critical Hit) is a family of skills in Pokémon Masters EX. It raises the power of attacks that are critical hits.

Effect

When an attack is a critical hit, the power of that move is increased by 10% per rank of this skill.

This skill is an additive multiplier, when multiple additive skills affect the same move they are first summed and then multiplied by the move's power.

This skill affects the following:

• Moves - Pokémon attack moves, including Buddy moves
• Special Attacks - Sync moves, Max moves, Unity Attack (co-op)

Skill rank	Increase
Critical Strike 1	10%
Critical Strike 2	20%
Critical Strike 3	30%
Critical Strike 4	40%
Critical Strike 5	50%
Critical Strike 6	60%
Critical Strike 7	70%
Critical Strike 8	80%
Critical Strike 9	90%

Availability

Critical Strike 1

Sync pairs (sync grid - yellow tiles)

Sync pairs (sync grid - red tiles)

Red Sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Egg Pokémon

Lucky Cookies

Lucky Cookie	Appearance Rate
1★ Crunchy Lucky Cookie	1.50%
2★ Crunchy Lucky Cookie	9.00%

Critical Strike 2

Sync Pairs (innate)

Sync pairs (sync grid - yellow tiles)

Sync pairs (sync grid - red tiles)

Red Sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Egg Pokémon

Lucky Cookies

Lucky Cookie	Appearance Rate
1★ Crunchy Lucky Cookie	0.63%
2★ Crunchy Lucky Cookie	1.25%
3★ Crunchy Lucky Cookie	12.5%
1★ Deluxe Lucky Cookie	0.41%
2★ Deluxe Lucky Cookie	0.83%
3★ Deluxe Lucky Cookie	8.33%
Guaranteed Lucky Cookie 12	100.0%

Critical Strike 3

Sync Pairs (innate)

Sync pairs (sync grid - yellow tiles)

Sync pairs (sync grid - red tiles)

Red Sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Egg Pokémon

Critical Strike 5

Sync Pairs (innate)

Sync pairs (sync grid - yellow tiles)

Sync pairs (sync grid - red tiles)

Red Sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Critical Strike 9

Sync Pairs (innate)

Sync pairs (sync grid - red tiles)

Red Sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Trivia

• Critical Strike functions similarly to the Ability Sniper in the core series.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese 急所時威力上昇 Kyūsho-ji Iryoku Jōshō Mandarin Chinese 擊中要害時威力提升 Jízhòng Yàohài Shí Wēilì Tíshēng French Puissance Critique German Volltrefferstärke↑ Italian Peggiorcolpo Korean 급소시위력상승 Geupso-si Wiryeok Sangseung Spanish Crítico Impulsor

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