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Critical hits increase a weapon's base damage by 3. For example, a normal [[Grenade Launcher|pipe]] does 100 damage on direct hit. A critical pipe by contrast deals 300 damage on direct hit. Furthermore, critical hits ignore [[damage]] ramp-up and fall-off. A [[Soldier]] rocket deals diminished damage at range. At maximum fall-off, it only deals 48 damage. However a critical rocket ignores this while tripling it's damage, dealing a whopping 270 damage at any range.  

A weapon's random crit chance depends on how much damage has already been done previously by the player, possible reaching 60% random crit chance. Due to this, [[Sniper]]s and [[Demoman|Demomen]] have some of the highest random crit chance due to their high damage output, and [[Medic]]s due to healing done contributing to the random crit chance.  

Mini crits can be thought of as less extreme critical hits. Instead of tripling a weapon's damage, they only increase it by 35%. They too like critical hits ignore damage fall-off, but unlike critical hits they factor damage ramp-up. Full critical hits override mini-crits. For instance if an enemy is Marked for Death but you manage to hit a critical hit, the mini-crit will be ignore and will instead factor the normal critical hit. It is because of this critical hits are sometimes referred to as full crits to distinguish them from mini-crits.   

A crit boost is a state when a weapon will deal guaranteed critical hits for a certain duration of time. A crit boost is shown by the weapon glowing the team's respective color, with sparks of electricity surging from it, accompanied by an electric sound effect. This does not affect weapons such as the [[Sandvich]] which do not deal damage. The visual effect will still be present however.  

There is also a mini-crit version also present. Unlike it's counterpart, a mini-crit boosted weapon does not emit electrical particle effects or emit any sound effect. The weapon does change color slightly, yellow for RED and green-blue for BLU.  

- Being [[ÜberCharge|ÜberCharged]] by the [[Kritzkrieg]] allows any weapon to gain critical hits for 8 seconds.

- During Humiliation at the end of a round the weapons on the winning team are crit-boosted until the round ends.

- Capturing the intelligence in [[Capture the Flag]] gives the capturing team critical hits for 10 seconds.  

- The [[Harvester]] can gain a critical boost when the HEAT meter is filled. This lasts until it is used on an enemy player.

- The [[Chekhov's Punch]] can gain a critical hit boost when hitting an enemy with a melee attack with the Chekhov's. This stores up to 3 critical hits which can be used on the Heavy's other weapons. The Chekhov's themselves can only crit when at full capacity.

- The [[Civilian]] class can give a mini-crit boost to a player on the same team, granting them mini-crits for 8 seconds.

There are some cases that allow a weapon to deal guarunteed crits or mini-crits.

| Flares only crit on [[Afterburn|burning targets]].

| Deals one guarunteed critical hit after building up the HEAT meter.

| Each melee hit stores one critical hit, which can be used on Heavy's other weapons. When 3 critical hits are stored, the Heavy will deal critical hits with his melee. However the opposite is true, any melee will also deal critical damage against the Heavy.

| The Fishwhacker does critical hits on [[Bleed|bleeding]] oponents, which itself can cause.

| When a player is hit with the Tranquilizier Gun, all melee attacks become critical hits.