There is also Peakaboo found in Merry Hills Area at Night. This monster deals Staff Damage and a chance to reduce Physical Defense as well as ELemental Defense. Really great when setting up a Big Damage Turn as this is one of the best sources of Elemental Defense Down when you want to boost Oswald or Temenos' Damage.
Great video! I would love a video on the best NPCs to guide/hire/(etc) with Temenos, Agnea, Partitio, and Ochette if you have some tips! You could break it down by money saving tips for Partitio, as well as their usefulness in battle?
Woodland Birdking III is my favorite and what I use at the start of each battle. It has Lunar Lunge (Polearm attack all, as well as party bonus speed up, physical attack up, physical defense up for 2-3 turns). It’s amazing! Can find it in Southern Timberain Trail. You can also get multiple turns before the boss acts when used and stacked in boss fights.
Yeah its the main reason why I dont like running them. I'm currently only using Dreadwolf, because with some BP shenanigans its rly handy to grind exp with the damage it does for basically free. Aside from that though, I dont rly use any boss monsters, because you dont need that amount of damage for most random encounters, and for any boss or longer battle I'd much rather have something I can use multiple times.
If you have multiple level 10 monsters and use the shark first to boost you BP you can get 2 level 10 monster attacks in a very short time and take out a big chunk of a bosses health I usually use 3 bosses shark scourge and the other one is whatever I want and the rest is rare spawn enemies like octopuffs to buff me or debuff the enemy
light ravenant really shine early to mid game but u can start dropping that after u get the shark then focusing on capturing shield breaker and buffer/debuffer monsters..
@@CoatTee It's true. The monster mechanic in this game really was a pleasant surprise. Ochette's whole character was a surprise. I'm usually really annoyed by the cat-girl in JRPGs, but Ochette is so good. Hers was the first story I finished. I love monster catching and converting to different food. It's so satisfying. I also liked that early on, she was a nice double hitter to break, and now her monsters carry me through bosses with buffs and healing.
Great video! Early game I really prioritized the double-hit monsters for shield breaking, until I was able to capture Light Revenant, Devourer of Dreams, etc. Now I'm near the end game and the 9,999 damage limit is making them less useful since Ochette can out-damage them. I'm going to pick up some of these late game shield breaking monsters, thanks!
My Top Monsters all found by myself are: Headless Horseman(just Cool + offensive Buffs ), Chubby Cait(OP If lucky), Frogking2(prefer the Double Axe Slash vs ALL to double slash vs ONE with only 50% chance of debuff lol), Ancient LizardmanV(very efficient), Ancient Stone "Giant" lol forgot Name(Mighty Light attack plus Multiple Party Buffs but only summonable with 4 BP's like Bosses) and Storm Eagle/Bird 2(2 spear Thrusts vs ALL) Ps. Gonna check out the Shark Boss soon xD Pps. Ochette is AMAZING
Im curious, ive looked around online but can't find an answer to this question but before that I know ochette's provoked beasts aren't affected Does "deal more damage" affect the damage dealt by merchants hired help? The beastlings, veterans and assassins? I don't think I've ever seen the guards deal more then 5k even at full boost and level 60 partitio
Bro I am so far behind in this game. I didn’t play Octopath 1, and I decided I’d do everyone’s first chapter first… and maybe because I’d never played the series before but I’m 20 hours in and just finished all of the first chapters. Any time I watch videos I realize how much more time I get to sink into this game. But I feel super far behind. Does anyone have/know of any good beginner/early-mid game videos or wikis or anything? Thank you! I feel like most videos expect you to have some familiarity, and I’m just still figuring out combat. I LOVE this game and I’ve played a lot of jrpgs, but I was looking for a good primer for this game. Thank you!
I felt that way too. I had to tell myself, "don't let RU-vid, Reddit, or anything else take away my joy" I really slowed the pace and just explored. I haven't even done some chapter ones yet and I think I hit 35 hours this weekend. Please don't rush it. It's an amazing game. Have fun and don't let anyone dictate your pace.
There is a lot to the game, and the best way to play is to just play and explore and use the videos as helpful guides when you need or want to know about certain tropics. I was late to playing these games myself, and enjoying the experience and finding my own play style ia what makes so fun
@@thomasmortley6136 thank you. I really needed to hear this. You’re absolutely right. I’ve always always enjoyed games so much more when I go in blind and find things out for my own. I can always playthrough it again and make it more efficient once I find out anything I want to do differently. Thanks I really needed this.
Even when I wanted to make videos on this game, I still gave myself as little information as possible. Experiencing things yourself firsthand is one of the best things about a new game! Gaming is all about enjoyment
I'm not exactly involved with the fanbase, so I don't have a pulse on what's truly good or not (if something like that exists anyway), but there's something I've been wondering. Personally I prioritize breaking shields and, since you can't aim who the monsters target by default, I always thought the most versatile option was having a full team of captured monsters that could Double-Hit all enemies with different weapons (Sword all the way through to Staff), so I find it curious how the regular, non-rare enemies pointed out in the video tend to be single target, even though I understand enfeebling and enhancing effects can be beneficial. Would it be worthwhile to go for options like that in comparison? So far I've set up Ochette with: Vagrant Birdking II (Double Slash on All)... Ancient Froggen V (Double Thrust on All)... Ancient Birdian V (Double Stab on All)... Ancient Frogking II (Double Cleave on All)... Ancient Birdking II (Double Shot on All)... ...and Frost Moleking II (Double Bash on All). Admittedly this last one is a good tier or two lower in power than the rest, so I've been looking for a better option. Unfortunately I've been remaining fruitless so far-- been trying to look for an... Ancient? Lizardking II that can give me Double Bash (All) but no luck (I noticed Ancient/Vagrant variations tend to be in very similar power tiers).
There are a lot of good monsters. The ones I picked are mostly based on being good overall, but are all great for the end game bosses. It was a hard choice on what to show without making the video super long, so that was how I decided in the end
Mhm, the way I see it is all the monsters can be good, it just on your preference. From what I noticed the monsters that hit more than once focus on shield break while the others focus on status effects. The ones I have hit the whole group one while providing decent stat boosts
Dreadwing… not very strong attack but 20% insta death and hits all targets. Edit- I’m using it to clear the first stage pf the secret boss… still working on why am failing with second part
Basically, what you're looking for, mid to end game, is "-kin King". Aviankin, lizardkin, ratkin, froggen, etc. The animal people with weapons. Kin Kings level II will generally do a double weapon attack on all, while Kin King III will usually do a single target double weapon attack, with a buff or debuff to go with it. III seems like a downgrade, random mobs can be taken out better with Battle-worn Shark, and the debuffs are better on bosses, with their adds gone. Boss adds are the reason you'd have Kin King II's in your party at all, and only if they had weaknesses in common.
Newbie here, I just captured that little rare octo monster but I dont think I looted any JP after the fight, was that because I captured it instead of killing? Does capturing foes decrease our xp/loot or in tripping?
You can't catch the shark on the optional guaranteed encounter, but you can if you find it naturally after you killed the optional guaranteed shark. Also remember that the shark can only be found in the daytime. Also sorry that you got an answer so late.
And then Theres me who picked ochette last and already killed devourer of dreams and other bosses before even starting her storyline 😔 if only i had known
You have to beat it as a boss first, then it becomes a random encounter in that same dungeon. Boss monsters cant be tamed the first time you fight them, so youre all good.
You can! Actually, you have to kill them first before you can capture them! In the areas you fought them, they will be a rare spawn enemy and can be captured.
@@CoatTee hmm better mix high level monster and other monster... so i can use them freely. When my BP max, i can use high level monster... Btw, monster with level 9. We can use freely or with max BP ??
But is not these beasts more then the list only allowed to capture? It ain’t easy to have to many Boss Captures as they are only one time. I captured the dreadwolf and battle worn shark and chubby cait. the rest is still hard to decide even as I have headless horseman as one of them
There are a lot of good monsters and late game bosses are a lot less useful. So best way to choose is whatever effect or weapon type most benefits your current Party's build
@@CoatTee Cool. good advice. But when I encountered the Drake, Scourge of the ocean, they were all untameable. Tried going back but couldn't get them. Did I do something wrong or do I keep trying to get these encounters again?
Those are good in the early to mid game but fall off heavily in the late. All monsters shown here are good from beginning to end( end game bosses as well). But there is no wrong way, play use whatever you think is best.
