Get the Most Out of Your Octopath Traveler 2 Teams 

Thanks for bringing me in to chat all things Octopath 2! It was great fun talking about all the different team options this game has to offer. For all you Temenos fans, here's one last synergy I forgot to mention. The Dancer divine skill Sealticge's Seduction complements everything he wants to do well, but did you know that if your dancer is running The Show Goes On it'll extend this divine skill to four turns instead of three? Now pair that with Temenos' divine skill Aelfric's Blessing and you can set up party-wide defensive buffs two times a turn. The reason this suits Temenos is so well is his access to the defensive skills cleric offers like Prayer to the Flame and Sacred Shield, as well as his EX skill Prayer for Plenty! Great if you're like me and rush headlong into battles a little under levelled!

Best traveler combo is playing favourite character

Oswald as Arcanist: Seal of DIffusion + 3BP Stroke of Genius => Entire team is buffed to the gills. Highly recommend.

Random note - I like that you can have a Team OCTO and a Team PATH which is neat

I’ll be honest, while there are some with obviously stronger abilities and more useful talents, I had a hard time choosing teams with this game. As trivial as it sounds, as a woman I wanted to have a starting female protagonist in this game and was thrilled to find that they’re all actually viable characters with amazing abilities and cool backstories. Once I learned about all the characters I didn’t want to limit myself to a female and couldn’t choose any one character. They’re all awesome and I’m sure everyone can find a character that they really love and fits their playstyle. I started Throné because her story vibed with me not in situation but in emotion. Her abilities are not amazing but with a secondary job and the right team she does amazingly. I am glad I had her for the early game because he story is awesome but her damage output does decline. Once unlocking the secret jobs there’s one that suits her great. I made teams for magic/elemental and physical output and then a couple of support characters. There’s so many options with this game that you can easily take your favorite character and use them even if their base stats aren’t the greatest. With the right job, skills, equipment, and team, you can make anything that suits your tastes and play style. I’m more physical damage over elemental and I’m still trying to learn how to best use my support characters to their best abilities. Castti has been sooooo perfect for an amazing support character that also hold her own. Playing through her full story and slowly gaining abilities helped me learn to better use her on a team and as a support. I think out of all of them, the one that makes me the happiest is Ochette. I get excited when I get to a point in my playthrough where I get to use her. I have soooo much fun finding combinations of jobs, unlocking and using support skills from different jobs, different NPC’s to befriend and her monster captures. She’s just the most fun to use. I love her, Hikari, Castti with Scholar for elemental, and then Agnea with inventor. 2 damage outputs, a healer with elemental and support person. This is for early game. But there’s no wrong answers. Some are better at things than others but with nuts, secondary jobs, gaining jp for all the jobs and then using the right equipped skills and equipment… you can make any team you want work.

The Throne + Temenos combo has made a lot of bosses pretty trivial for me. Go in at night, and all you need to do is break the enemy by turn 3 ( very easy with Tem's LP and Elemental Barrage) and then Throne casts Aeber's Reckoning for 50k-80k damage. Multiple ending chapter bosses were essentially one-shot this way.

Sealiticge's Seduction -> Temenos' max boost prayer for plenty makes every boss 10× easier. Ochette's ex skill after her final chapter will also break just about anything at all. Just keep her sp up with castti's concoct and sp increasing gear. Also if you can catch a chubby cait, her max boosted ex skill will give you crazy buffs, like complete invincibility for a turn. Spam it 😭 I used Castti's drastic measures for damage. Armor corrosive + Shackle Foe + attack up on Castti = big damage. Ochette's chubby caits can also increase that damage by giving the enemy a debuff too...

Thank you very much for the help. After only playing part 1 for a bit, while it was on Gamepass, I bought part 2 and I really love it. I wasn't sure if I should get it, because all the team setup stuff etc. did overwhelm me, but I'm glad I bought it. I hope I can improve on my own a little, without watching too many guides, since I wanna get something done myself 😅. Definitely a big help though. 👍

This video was really helpful! (I’m really enjoying the game so far, and my lead is osvald, the rest of the team is Partitio, Agnea, and Hikari.)

Great video! I love learning stuff about Octopath Traveler 2 as it's my first Octopath game.

I enjoy the cast of this game in general a lot more than the Travelers in the first game, both as characters and in battle, and it's great to see a wide variety of viable builds and team comps avaliable For the curious, my current main team is Hikari, Agnea, Castti, and Thronè (I picked Hikari as my first and did not regret it for a second)

The composition I've loved a lot was by using Hikari as my main, and turning him into an absolute tank who can take hits with his incite ability, then having temenos as the healer/scholar, Throne as my fast,evasive debuffer, utility, and Ochette as supplementary damage and support abilities via her monsters. Night battles are so easy for the party, and we have no problem grinding. But it's scary how much our damage suffers if we end up fighting during the day lol. I'm enjoying the game a lot!

My team is actually coupling 2 Crossed Path team Osvald/Partitio/Temenos/Throne : Magic based team. Temenos and Throne just mean quick night strolling, Dancer Throne helps Sealctige Temenos' Prayer of Plenty if needed, Scholar Partitio helps supplying quick Alephan on Osvald and/or Temenos while the 2 just nuke everything. This team also has 2 people with summon allies as well to cover basic buff/debuff. Hikari/Agnea/Castti/Ochette : Physical team mostly, Sealctige into Castti's Remedy followed by Agnea's Song of Hope is broken. Hikari just munch all those uberbuff and whack everything, while Ochette can help as breaker, debuff and deals considerable damage as well.

Started with Hikari. Then gained Par. Then Cas. All said in your vid thus far is true. Can't wait to continue. Thanks a mil. 😊

Interesting that the two teams that cover all path actions you highlighted are just the travelers split by the continent you first meet them on. I think this was clearly planned!

This is a late game ability you get but Sealticge Castti and then use max boosted Remedy 9 random buffs to all is so incredibly fun and there can be some broken stuff you can get (like divine skills)

Arcanist Partitio is Runelord Tressa 2

Talking damage: My throne hits unbroken enemies with 50-90k at night first turn. I never managed to either do sth close with Hikari or ochette. Use temenos + throne for buff + debuff, use throne latent swift step into thief divine skill. (mine has 750 speed). I'm still kinda mid to late game but clear most CH. 4 and secret (conjure) bosses in 1 or 2 turns. For this it's recommended to break them first by using temenos boosted latent elemental barrage and Hikari arms master sixfold strike turn 1 and finish with throne on turn 2/3

Good video, the path action piece is something I will consider while building my party. Just one friendly suggestion: you could maybe slow down your speech tempo a little. There was a lot of detailed information you were providing but it was challenging keeping up as once you finished one point you were on to another, particularly when you spliced another voice clip in after your last point. Slowing down a bit may help slower people (like me :-D ) keep up with you. Otherwise good, informative video.

This video killed my grandma

Hi, great video ! If we do not have certain characters in our team, can we still do the combos presented thanks to secondary jobs ? (Ex : merchant class giving PM to others)

I definitely recommend Elemental Barrage from the Sorcerer job if you want to Break with Temenos’s latent power! On full BP it has the chance to hit 6-8 times. Getting BP Boost and Full Power on Temenos so he can coerce everything in every city is super useful for those more threatening enemies And aw… is there really no way to get every path action other than to use the 4 travelers from separate coasts? That’s fine, but kinda lame! I hated going to the bar every 5 seconds to switch characters in Octopath 1, so I just decided to do a 4 man team and stick with it. Just finished the stories for the east coast travelers, now it’s time to finish the West. The east coast were no brained to start with too, having Inquire and Steal is so nice when you wanna cheese path actions. Honestly I feel like Osvald, Temenos, and Throne are such a powerful starting team because of their path actions + night boosts. I’m hoping that the west coast group is amazing as well! Agnea seems really useful, her Wind AOE being one of the few wind AOE attacks easily accessible really makes me like her a lot. I was hoping to mix the east and west coast travelers for more access to AOE Wind and Dark stuff (so Agnea, Castti, and Throne) but maybe that’s not for me if I hate not having all path actions available at once lol

The turn order graphic at the top of the screen still kinda baffles me. 90 hours in and I'm still like "is the guy on the left next, or the guy on the right? Oh, it was neither of them..." As much as I like to try and work out say, who to give BP to etc, the turn order never seems to line up, so I just consider, "what single action can this guy do, this turn, that will most benefit us overall?"

i use armsmaster hikari, inventor partitio (using full power and basically being a break machine so i can do good damage w/ hikari), arcanist osvald, and cleric castti i really like buffing hikari and then oneshotting everything with shinju

Tememos with elemental barrage goes crazy

I think all characters should versatile enough to make it through the game,if leveled up enough,should be able to achieve 100%,after all, the game makers wouldn't have put them in. They all have different unique abilities, but I think overall,any character combo should suffice...I started out with Throne'

Fully boosted temenos + latent power + elemental barrage = broken Boss

My general recommendation is to have 1 power class (hunter/warrior), 1 magic class (osvald lmao), 1 utility support and whoever’s story it is. Late game against optional bosses have a cleric or cassiti for healing. Also 2 small tips for those who are new to octopath, I’d recommend starting with the warrior as they are the only character who’s chapters are designed around them being on curve (reccomended lv) while you can carry every other traveller with a strong team. Also late game I find the apothecary to be the best general class as the limit of resources just goes away after a point.

Before watching this, I’ll share my builds Spoiler warning for secret jobs 1. Throne - Hunter She’s my protag and not the best in combat, and I don’t really use her debuffs much (you’ll see why). However, surprise attack deals a surprising amount of damage and Aebers Recogning is always a heavy hit. As for why Hunter, greater weapon options and Hunter Debuffs. 2. Ochette - Armsmaster My favorite traveler, I went around and explored nearly the entire map before doing most chapter 2s. This means I was very over leveled, as were Ochette’s beats. I had 3 boss beasts (post getting the ship) before doing most of the story, including one that deals a ton of damage to all enemies and debuffs them (looks like it would be particularly weak to Seraphim). So most of the time I am slinging beats around. However, having every weapon type from Armsmaster and the complete Lost Tribe series with a Blessing in Disguise makes her weapon attacks disgustingly powerful. The only Armsmaster skill I need is the 6 fold strike because that is a massive nuke that is also great at breaking. 3. Cassti - Dancer Buff bot who doesn’t use buffing skills. I’m mainly using her as a source of healing and her concoct ability which is amazing. I wanted to make her a mage but her magic is lacking. However, giving her the dancer class allows me to obtain what I think is the most broken thing in this game…… oh and she poisons, that’s good 4. Partitio - Arcanist Mwuhahahahahahahahahah MWUHAHAHAHAHA RUNELORD TRESSA IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE I slapped Partition in the team solely because his latent skill is bloody absurd. Being able to get an instant 5 Bp is soooooooooo good. As well as it recharging at the start of every battle. I use this in 2 ways. Fire off instant Belphagor’s Bounties on rando enemies to be rich (combined with the Apothecary passive +30% Hp and Sp after every battle). And the second way, ohoho the second way. Turn 1, Difusing Rune Turn 2, max charge sidestep (made possible by Ochette having Head Start from the Inventor class) Turn 3, either latent skill into max charge sidestep oooorrrrr Cassti uses Dancer divine skill on Partitio allowing reflective veil to be given to everyone. Now the whole team can autododge 4 physical attacks and reflect 4 magic attacks. All in 3 turns. He can also diffusing seal into Rest to act as a healing and Sp battery or just spam Blessing. It’s such a good set up that I’m sure the true final boss will somehow completely shut down, but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts Oh and my main team is currently level 78 (Cassti is level 70) and the other 4 are level 45. I’m at level 35 recommend level for the next chapter I’m about to do. I’m having a blast breaking this game wide open.

Late to the party, but I'd like to share my own experience with OT1. I formed two well-balanced teams of 4, finished the first four character's story, and then... quit the game. I simply didn't have any interest in levelling up from scratch the other fours, even though it was made much easier because of item and subjobs access. When you have a fully levelled team, it isn't really motivating to restart with four level 5 characters... So for OT2, I'll follow @TheOneandAli 's suggestion and swap members around. Imagining new party comps is also fun!

I know there are much better constructed teams but I’m determined to use Hikari, Osvald, and Ochette on one team…so I’m just wondering is it better to use Castti or Agnea at that 4th support member slot?

Legit been ignoring all my other games and systems and have been playing this game everyday since! I didn't even play the 1st one this much when it came out and barely even finished it! 🤦🏾‍♂️

My fav was Agnea with Step Ahead (Inventor Passive) + Windy Refrain on turn 0; then, any character with Boost Start (Merchant Passive) is almost guaranteed a 3 BP action on turn 1 before enemies can act!

Haven’t picked up the game yet, how much would you recommend it in terms of gameplay for someone who played the first Octopath Traveler?

Ochette can also be used as a bp battery while also debuffing and buffing. This can be done with ochettes glitch to summon 6 10-strenght monsters. You can buff your attack with gigantes. You can debuff enemies with Tyrannodrake. For bp you can use Battle-Worn Shark. You can also easily brake shields with scourge of the sea (Breaks 6 shield points no matter what weakness the enemie has.) If you need time you can also use Manymaws (gives sleep, poison, blindness and confusion to enemies. It also stacks so you can summon 6 manymaws for 9 turns of sleep). What i most of the time do is: 1x Tyrannodrake 1x Gigantes 2x Scourge Of The Sea (bosses) 2x Battle-Worn Shark my support skills for ochette are: Full Power Vigorous Victor A Step Ahead Boost-Start items dont matter nothing skills with monsters (that i know of)

How can you do the 2 man team if your prota is lock?

Temenos can best break with elemental barrage imo so scholar

Is there a time where I'll be forced into combat, in day or night, where I would need a team for it?

Castti as an element mage is underrated.

I disagree with Osvald not having synergetic prowess with other jobs. Although it's by any means a WHOLE lot synergetic, it HAS made a significant difference in damage, support and a breaker: Armsmaster. That damn staff ability combined with his high intellect, on boosted broken foes, I was hitting about 30k~40k per hit. Completey had him stay as Armsmaster all the way until the final boss. 100% SP recovery as well! Not really much for team utility other than his elemental coverage as a breaker + all the physical weapon weaknesses. He stood as the backbone as my breaker, mage, and damage dealer. That said, it dow require some team building around him, but not a whole lot really. He was still flexible to play with anyone regardless if the team is not built around him. Physical attack wise, not much needed nor practical of course, and the job becomes useless for him for a certain Superboss.

How much grind the game has?

So basically, west coast team and east coast team

Hikari is a blue mage lol and can master any class

Temenos scholar elemental barrage legoo

There are so many odd combos to discover. Example 1: I had Partitio fairly early (3rd team member), and just because I felt it suited him, I gave him Apothecary as a 2nd job, with no real thought. Well, the Apothecary. ability "Sweeping Cleave" in Partitio's big damage hands turns out to be an AOE monster that brute-forces whole groups of trash, high critical rate even against wrong shield types. Example 2: I started with Throne and gave her Inventor, just because I found it and didn't know really about jobs, so why not. Throne already uses swords, and Catapult (AOE sword damage) costs no SP. Again, in the hands of a damage dealer like Throne, this too becomes very powerful - and cheap. Only need it once a fight, so rebuild doesn't matter. So, just by chance selection, Throne and Partitio like that, with Osvald as Scholar/Cleric (again because it seemed a natural fit), just swap in as 4th member whomever you're levelling, or chaptering. I bet there are heaps of cool combos folks have discovered.

Great videos 🙂 Small suggestion, if you do go ahead and make the subjob vid, you could afford to talk slightly slower - it's a lot of information to take in 😄 Thanks for making such information-rich content 👍🏼⭐

Honey badger don’t give a shit

Scholar Hikari is actually goated due to the fact that he can easily get access to skills that no one else will ever get. Personally, I found a npc with a 3-hit fire single target which was perfect because Hikari can already hold two weapons that boost fire damage.

Hikari’s whack.