Culling strike

This page is about the game mechanic. For the support gem, see Culling Strike Support.

Culling strike is a property that causes hits to kill enemies left with 10% of maximum life or less.

Mechanics

A hit with culling strike will kill an enemy if it is still alive with 10% of maximum life or less after taking damage from the hit. This occurs instantly; there is no delay between the enemy taking damage from the hit and being killed by culling strike.

Culling strike does not trigger when an enemy is reduced to zero life outright by the damage inflicted by a hit. This is relevant for effects that care about overkill damage, such as Herald of Ash.

Since culling strike is a property of hits, it is not applicable to damage over time.

Sources of culling strike

Gems

• Skills supported with
• Power Siphon and Vaal Power Siphon have built-in culling strike.
• Glacial Hammer has a similar effect to culling strike, but it only applies to frozen enemies that can be shattered, and kills at 33% or less life instead.

Corruption

There is a Culling Strike corrupted implicit modifier that can appear on axes, swords, bows, daggers, claws, and wands.

Unique items

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Passive skills

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Bane of Legends

The Slayer Ascendancy skill Bane of Legends has a similar effect to culling strike, but kills at 20% or less life instead.

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