Do all weapons have a base critical chance?

[ran24]

I'm looking at the war machete, and theres one skill that says "+20% crit chance", and another skill that says "+100% crit damage".

My question is - does the war machete have a base crit chance of "0%" or some other number, if I take no skills related to increasing my crit chance?

Some games have a crit chance of 0% unless you have items that increase it. So, I'm wondering if taking the skill that does "+100% crit damage" will it do nothing if I don't also have skills that increase crit chance?

[rarestMeow]

hello,

every single weapon in the game has the following stats (until you change them with spirits or weapon upgrades):

critical damage = 200% of normal damage
critical chance = 0%

so, as you can see boosting "critical damage" without backing it up with "critical chance" boosts - is useless

overall, critical damage is somewhat worthless in this game, because consider this. you have a weapon with "10" normal damage. it makes it deal "20" critical damage, right?
now you have an option, either increase the normal damage by 50% or critical damage by 100%. with either of upgrades you will have the following:

+50% to normal damage:
15 - normal damage
30 - critical damage

+100% to critical damage:
10 - normal damage
30 - critical damage

so, as you can see, the first option looks way better than the second one - and sucn calcualtions are true for all weapons in the game. so, between normal damage and critical damage, it is always more worthy to go after normal damage

[ran24]

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

I've been satisfied with going "all left" skills with the base hammer for all 5 upgrades. It's very stronk just going for straight damage.

[rarestMeow]

Originally posted by ran24:

Thanks for the detailed explanation.
I've been satisfied with going "all left" skills with the base hammer for all 5 upgrades. It's very stronk just going for straight damage.

it sure is! in fact, if I remember correctly, I beat 100% of that game (including power-run for highscore in leaderboards) without looking for any additional critical damage/chances. the raw damage is more than enough for killing anything in sight

I do think that there is might be some exceptional builds based around criticals, but I am unaware of any...