Critical Up (Blade Art)

Critical Up
Caption	Increases critical hit rate.
Type	Buff
Base value	25
Base duration	15s
Base cooldown	20s
Trigger interval	3s
Base probability	75%

For other articles titled "Critical Up", see Critical Up (disambiguation).

Critical Up (called out as Focus) is a Blade Art and associated buff in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It increases the recipient's critical hit rate by 25% for 15 seconds. The effect triggers 75% of the time whenever the Blade's Driver uses an auto-attack that lands and is not a crit.

Users

Blade	Cooldown modifier
Agate	0.75x
Crossette	0.75x
Dagas	0.75x
Dagas	1.5x
Elma	0.75x
Fiora	0.75x
Herald	0.5x
KOS-MOS	0.75x
Mythra	0.75x
Patroka	0.75x
Perceval	0.5x
Perdido	0.5x
Pneuma	0.5x
Praxis	1x
Sever	0.75x
Sever	0.75x
Sheba	0.75x
T-elos	1x
Vale	1x
Wulfric	0.75x
Zenobia	1x

In addition, Poppi can use this art when equipped with AC Critical Up.

Trivia

• Pneuma has this Blade Art, even though it cannot trigger on her (and would have no effect if it did) because of her 100% crit rate.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Critical Up	—
Japanese	会心アップ
French	Coups critiques ↑
German	Krit.-Rate↑
Spanish	Crítico ↑
Italian	Danno critico ↑
Chinese (simplified)	会心提升
Chinese (traditional)	會心上升
Korean	회심 업