Fallout: New Vegas primary statistics

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This page lists all primary statistics in Fallout: New Vegas.

• The content is not described in full detail on this page. For details, please see the respective articles.
• For primary statistics in other Fallout games, please see "Primary statistic".
• For an overview of Fallout: New Vegas content, please refer to "Portal:Fallout: New Vegas."

Overview

Primary statistic	Description	Derived statistics and effects	Associated skills
Strength	A measure of your raw physical strength.	Melee Damage Carry Weight Weapon strength requirement	Melee
Perception	How well you use your five senses, and also pertains to a "sixth sense".	Increased range for enemy detection.	Energy Weapons Explosives Lockpick
Endurance	Your health and overall physical fitness.	Health / Hit Points Healing Rate Poison Resistance Radiation Resistance Implant limit	Survival Unarmed
Charisma	Your overall attractiveness and likeability.	Increased non-player character disposition Companion nerve	Barter Speech
Intelligence	Your basic intellect, curiosity in the world and adeptness at critical thinking.	Skill points per level Less than 4 affects character's language skills	Medicine Repair Science
Agility	A measure of your quickness and dexterity.	Action Points Draw/holster speed Reload speed.	Guns Sneak
Luck	How often good things happen to you by chance.	Critical Chance Success at gambling (blackjack, roulette, slots).	All

Perk requirements

Primary statistic	Required
	4	5	6	7	8
Strength		Heave, Ho!, Strong Back	Stonewall, Super Slam!, Burden to Bear	Heavyweight , Unstoppable Force
Perception			Better Criticals, Friend of the Night, Light Step, Sniper, Alertness	Hobbler , Infiltrator
Endurance		Lead Belly, Toughness, Rad Resistance, Strong Back	Atomic! , Life Giver, Long Haul, Old World Gourmet , Stonewall, Burden to Bear	Solar Powered, Rad Absorption	Implant GRX , Irradiated Beauty
Charisma			Animal Friend, Ferocious Loyalty
Intelligence	Comprehension, Educated, Entomologist, Swift Learner	Nerd Rage!, Retention, Pack Rat	Lessons Learned	Computer Whiz, Voracious Reader
Agility		Rapid Reload, Quick Draw	Action Boy/Action Girl, Light Step, Light Touch , Silent Running, Sniper	Nerves of Steel, Slayer	Tunnel Runner
Luck		Fortune Finder, Scrounger	Better Criticals, Junk Rounds , Miss Fortune, Mysterious Stranger

Notes

• The only ways to increase your SPECIAL statistics permanently are to get an implant from New Vegas medical clinic, take the Small Frame trait, or to use the Intense Training perk. One additional point is available upon completing Lonesome Road.
• Starting Old World Blues automatically grants the Spineless perk (+1 Strength) and completing it gives the option to replace Spineless with Reinforced Spine (+2 Strength). However, these bonuses do not count for perk requirements.
• Agility does not affect how fast you move, despite what various strategy guides and the in-game description itself says. This could be a glitch that has yet to be fixed, or intentionally taken out shortly before the game went retail, after the manual/strategy guides had already been published. You can easily test this by making a character with 1 Agility, and another character with maxed out Agility.
• Like in Fallout 2, an Intelligence of 3 or lower will make your character speak like an idiot.
• When gambling, Luck only tends to favor the player at 7 or higher.

Gallery

"Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester" used to allocate SPECIAL