# Shattering blow
A shattering blow is an effect that happens roughly 2.5% of the time when you are fighting while wielding a two-handed weapon, or are a samurai wielding a katana, and your skill in that weapon is Skilled or better. If you perform a shattering blow on a monster, the monster's wielded weapon is destroyed, and the monster will turn to flee 75% of the time;[1] this will occur before any damage from the blow itself.

Messages
The 

<monster>'s <weapon> shatters from the force of your blow!
You attacked a monster and performed a shattering blow.
See also
Staggering blow
References

↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 794

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