ATK

ATK
Japanese	攻 (こう) 撃 (げき) 力 (りょく) [Notes 1]
Japanese (ruby)	こうげきりょく
Japanese (base text)	攻撃力
Japanese (romanized)	Kōgekiryoku
Japanese (translated)	Attack Strength
English	ATK (Attack Points)[Notes 2]
Other names French: ATK (Valeur d'Attaque) German: ATK (Angriffspunkte) Italian: ATK (Punti Attacco) Portuguese: ATK (Pontos de Ataque) Spanish: ATK (Puntos de Ataque) Korean: 공격력 (攻擊力) Gonggyeongnyeok[Notes 3] Traditional Chinese: 攻擊力 Gōngjílì / Gung1 gik1 lik6 Formerly: 攻撃力 Gōngjílì Simplified Chinese: 攻击力 Gōngjílì

ATK (Japanese: 攻 (こう) 撃 (げき) 力 (りょく) Kōgekiryoku) are the points that determine a Monster Card's "strength" when attacking the opponent's Monster Cards. It is short for Attack Points.

Properties

In a battle between two Attack Position monsters:

• If the ATK of the battling monsters are different: The controller of the monster with less ATK takes damage equal to the difference between ATK of the battling monsters, and the monster with lower ATK is destroyed.

• If the ATK of the battling monsters are the same: Both monsters are destroyed and neither player takes damage, even if both battling monsters have 0 ATK.

When attacking a Defense Position monster:

• If the ATK and DEF are equal: No damage is inflicted, and no monster is destroyed.

• If the ATK is higher than DEF: The attacked monster is destroyed, but no battle damage is inflicted, unless the attacking monster inflicts piercing battle damage.

• If the ATK is lower than DEF: Neither monster is destroyed, but the attacking monster's controller takes damage equal to the difference between the ATK and DEF of the battling monsters.

If the opponent has no monsters on the field, damage is dealt to the opponent's Life Points equal to the total ATK value, if the attack is not blocked or disrupted. This is called a direct attack.

Trivia

Currently, the highest original ATK outside the anime or manga (and excluding illegal cards) is 5000 ATK. There are various methods to increase a monster's ATK points, so it's debatable over which monster has the potential for the highest ATK possible.

Notes

References

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