Anyone can defeat Secret Boss (no grinding) in Octopath Traveler 2 

I think Agnea is better in phase 2. She can use windy refrain to manipulate turn order. It’s really important to stop the boss getting 3-4 turns in a row.

Hikari was a hunter for the whole game, so I decided I had money to burn and made him a merchant. Throne was already a merchant, so the result was 3 servings of Hired Help foreign assassin per turn until the minions were destroyed and the boss was broken. It worked out, but then he recovered from break without the dagger weakness and nearly wiped my party. Throne was the last one standing with one HP, and Galdera MISSED. This also triggered ensnare, lowering his physical defense. I then revived everyone and had Osvald analyze his weaknesses, incidentally revealing that Galdera only had 20000 hit points. Hikari used Brand's Thunder for 25000 damage, which might not have worked if not for the ensnare. I walked into that fight with a little under 2 million leaves and left with less that 800 thousand.

I struggled with the 2nd phase but ur video helped much appreciated lad 😊

Just beat him finally, used some of your guide to do it, thanks for the pointers! I ended up having a similar phase 1, but phase 2 I had osvald break the arms and head and then ochette break the body at the end. Throne and hikari dps are no joke

great guide! Hope a lot more gamers can finish the game after watching this video!

My basic strategy isn't too dissimilar, but some key differences: -Castti is in team 1 to spam Concoct. - Hikari's damage is coming from On the Hunt straight up, with damage enhanced by revealing all weaknesses using the Deep Analysis Learned Skill -Osvald spams jams with Dohter's Charity in team 2 -Ochette is breaking in team 2 using an innocuous monster called Ocean Lizardking III. It's a double dagger hit that applies a Windy Refrain effect. With Provoke Beasts it pretty much solos Galdera's shield so that Throne can murder

Managed to do this so big GG's. What i will say though is, this strategy only works if you have essentially perfect RNG. I found that if the turn order wasnt exactly right it doesnt work. But thank you either way.

Make sure you use your best healing items (revive all hp & sp recovered item) if needed. Could be the difference between winning and dying close to the finish line!

i guess I distributed the nuts wrong since both Hikari and Throne didn't do by far that much damage, but I eventually beat him with luck(?)... A weird fight overall since the whole game was a cakewalk^^' thanks for the guide, it was very helpful :)

Got it done with this method. Had to finagle a bit with the turn order. Failed a couple times because I took my foot off the gas. In the second phase, just keep going balls to the wall until he's down.

I used castti throne osvad and temenos for the first phase (castti and throne to support, osvald and especially temenos to dps/stun), and partitio Agnea hikari and ochette for the second phase (agnea supports and reduce physical defense of the enemies, ochette dps with the merchant abilities and reduces armors with her skills, partitio supports and do sith merchant, hikari dps).

Hello, can you tell me how I can use all my monster with orrchete, I use provoke beast but just let me use a mahina, acta, chubbi Cait, peek a boo and vagrant.

That's close to my set up. In phase one I have Warmaster Hikari, Ochette, Castti, and Merchant Agnea. Castti has to go before Hikari but that's not a deal breaker. Defend with Agnea and Ochette the first turn so they go first turn two, Concoct with Castti for a BP and Attack Up boost then use the Warmaster Spear attack to clear the souls and get the BP back. Break with Agnea and Ochette (knife and axe attacks) then it's just attacking with Limb from Limb, feeding Hikari BP and I like to throw in a Wind attack from Agnea to help with any damage ranges (there aren't any but she's got x3 wind boost and I like using it). Phase two I have Apothacary Partitio, Cleric Throne, Hunter Osvald, and Scholar Temenos. Ideally Partitio goes before Throne and I can put Dohter's Charity on Throne but any turn order can work by throwing BP boosting items/skills so at the end of the turn Temenos has Aelfric's Blessing and Alephan's Wisdom and can use his EX nuke on his bonus round. With my set up that will kill both arms and put the head in the red. Then I wait for a turn order that has Osvald going after the main body and keeping my Elemental Attack up and maybe Aelfric's Blessing up on Temenos with items/skills. On the turn with my hunter going after the body I break the head with Assassins or Aeber's Reckoning then Leghold Trap the body so I don't have to survive any of those boosted attacks. Once trapped and a Cursed Talisman is applied a Temenos nuke plus or minus some extra damage from the others will clean up the body.

How you do this dmg? I have more level and the same itens and I dont hit all this damage 😢

it took a while for me to beat this boss, i had to use like 70% of my stat increasing nuts and did someone else's build spelling OCTO-PATH as the team comps; somehow i managed to beat Galdera's first phase WITHOUT letting the flames burn and somehow it skipped from triggering after it recovered from the break; second phase was where i had so much hiccups with the set-ups, Hikari was not doing enough damage for the parts to go down, after stuffing him with nuts in HP & ATK he finally did the necessary damage for Galdera to go down after 16 attempts

This is incredible. I’m not there yet, but this looks extremely difficult

Need advice! In phase 1 i finally managed to axe everything out but it triggers that flame attack that will drain hp at the end of turn! How the hell do you manage to axe them and breaking the eye and no flames around you? Unfortunately with Hikari at 1 HP this is driving me nuts!!! Thanks for the advice 😊

Thank you for your guide, but it doesn't work for me, every time I don't have the right character order and I always get the flames. I can't kill it, I've been at it for 3 days now, even though I'm Level 85 on all the characters.

Bro im just wondering why does my damage only max out between 11k to 40k, even tho i max out physical and elemental attack. I saw videos that people are dealing 99k

Hi bro. Why my limb from limb damage is too low around 20k/hit while i follow ur gear setup, skills and limit break after using pika boo break boss'shield or i miss something

Can you explain how did you provoke multiple beast like the dreadwolf? I can only provoke him once in a battle dispite I got 2 of it.. ?

I hate this boss so much! Second phase he killed me instant. I wasn't even able to do anything. I could use one character and afterwards he attacked multiple times and i was done. I love challenging games but this is just unfair.

Struggling on phase 2 still. I can’t get Throne to do that much damage with Aeber, despite having a higher speed stat than you!

Im intimidated by this. Btw I have managed to beat the final boss few days ago barely survived the battle. Unfortunately I didn’t use your method because it takes too long to get the battle tested weapons. As for this maybe I won’t be trying lolz

I tried fighting him with Throne as my damage dealer, but then it said something like "Throne was seized by the darkness" and it kept happening every turn. How do I evoid this?

I feel like I have basically the same setup as you do here, but you're somehow getting triple the damage per hit from Limb from Limb; I'm only getting about 20k to 40k a hit, tops. I have the two accessories, I have the Giant's Club, I have the sword, I have the class, he's sitting at 1 HP, it's almost 1:1. How the HELL are you pulling out so much damage from him? Haha.

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Me, look up this boss cause I’m not afraid of spoilers Also me, upon seeing what it is: *OH NO NO NO!! NO GOD PLEASE NO!! NO!! NO!!!!! NOT AGAIN!!!!!*

Its not a clean guide, since ur phase 2 depends on luck 'hoping throne didnt die'

lol x 100 that would be 2 million exp

ผมใส่ไอเท็ม สกิล และจ๊อบรองตามคุณเป๊ะเลย โทรนผมเลเวล 94 ความเร็ว 649 ทำไมของคุณเลเวล 74 ความเร็ว 679 ฮิคาริผมเลเวล 94 พลังโจมตีไม่รวมอาวุธ 477 ของคุณเลเวล 69 พลังโจมตีไม่รวมอาวุธ 589 มันเป็นเพราะอะไรเหรอครับ ผมบัฟตามคุณทุกสเต็ปเลย ตอนฮิคาริใช้ท่า Lionheart Axe ได้เดเมจเท่ากับคุณ แต่ฮิคาริคุณใช้ท่า Limp from Limp ลดทีละ 80000 ผมใช้ลดทีละ 24000 เอง ส่วนโทรนผมใช้ Arber Reckoning ลดแค่ 30000 เหมือนกัน ของคุณลดที 99999 คือผมพลาดตรงไหนไปเหรอครับ งง บอกทีครับ

Im already 99 with all characters and still cant xD