Octopath Traveler II - Best Party Members

A guide on the best party members for Octopath Traveler 2, including recommended characters to recruit for the game's main story, summary of each character's performance, and a breakdown of each party's members' unique characteristics, abilities, and roles.

Best Party Members Guide for Octopath Traveler II

This page contains a guide on the best party members for Octopath Traveler II, including recommended characters to recruit for the game’s main story, summary of each character’s performance, and a breakdown of each party’s members’ unique characteristics, abilities, and roles.

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Best Characters Tier List Ranking

Tier Rank	Character	Details
Rank 1	Throné Anguis (For Freedom)	Extremely versatile character with excellent damage output. Can act twice per turn using Latent Power. Access to recovery skills gives her increased survivability. Incredible party-wide buff during the nighttime with Blessing of Darkness Talent.
Rank 2	Ochette (For Legends)	Ability to capture and summon monsters grants her coverage of multiple damage types to exploit enemy weakness. Incredibly high damage output even in the early stages thanks to summons. Extremely useful Prepare Talent lets you convert captured monsters to items, making it easy to earn money.
Rank 3	Partitio Yellowil (For Prosperity)	Donate BP is the best set-up skill in the game and can easily determine victory or defeat in battle. High BP gain rate. Consistent character for forcing enemies into Break.
Rank 4	Temenos Mistral (For Truth)	Invaluable support-focused character, especially during boss battles. Excellent at reducing enemy Shield Points without having to cover specific damage types to target weaknesses. Access to auto-revive ability (once per battle). Incredible enemy debuff skill during the nighttime with Moonlight Judgement Talent.
Rank 5	Hikari Ku (For Home)	Impressive physical damage dealer. Requires minimal resource management and generally easy to use. Can learn new abilities with Learned Skills Talent (daytime) to increase versatility.
Rank 6	Osvald V. Vanstein (For Revenge)	Excellent magic attacker (nuker) with reasonable dependence on resources. Can quickly clear groups of enemies with various area-of-effect (AoE) elemental attacks. High damage single-target damage output with Latent Power, making him useful in boss battles.
Rank 7	Agnea Bristani (For Stardom)	Versatile support-focused character. Allure Path Action lets her temporarily recruit NPCs to call them in battle. Access to various buff and debuff abilities depending on NPC summoned. Certain buffs activated last longer than other support skills.
Rank 8	Castti Florenz (For Memories)	Item-reliant character that can support allies and deal respectable damage. Excellent versatility thanks to the wide variety of effects of concoctions. Can use Concont Talent without required items thanks to Latent Power.

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Party Member Ranking Breakdown

Throné Anguis (Thief)

Initial Job Class	Thief
Initial Damage Types	Dagger, Sword, Dark

Throné is the best party member in the game, owing to her impressive versatility and the ability to act twice using her Latent Power. Throné can easily switch between offensive and support duties depending on the situation in battle. Her damage output, meanwhile, is also exceptional as she can simply attack or use skills twice.

Throné’s Blessing of Darkness Talent raises the physical attack, elemental attack, and speed of all allies during nighttime and is arguably the best buff unique to her.

Throné Anguis Character Guide

Ochette (Hunter)

Initial Job Class	Hunter
Initial Damage Types	Axe, Bow, Lightning

Ochette’s ability to summon monsters she has captured gives her access to a wide variety of damage types. With just Ochette alone, you are able to exploit the weaknesses of different enemies in the game. Summoned monsters are also incredibly powerful in their own right, allowing Ochette to carry the party against enemies that are several levels higher than you.

Giving Ochette a bit more utility is her Prepare Talent which lets you convert captured monsters you do not need into items. A lot of monster byproducts can be sold off for lots of Leaves at shops which makes Ochette a good party member for farming money.

Ochette Character Guide

Partitio Yellowil (Merchant)

Initial Job Class	Merchant
Initial Damage Types	Bow, Polearm, Fire

Partitio’s main selling point is his Donate BP skill which lets him transfer the resource to any ally. This ability is arguably the most useful and versatile support ability as other party members with powerful skills can act earlier before the enemy does. Partitio himself has very fast BP gain which complements his primary role well in the team well.

Partitio Yellowil Character Guide

Temenos Mistral (Cleric)

Initial Job Class	Cleric
Initial Damage Types	Stave, Light

Temenos access to a wide variety of support skills to heal and revive allies makes him an obvious choice for taking on tough enemies like bosses. His one-time auto-revive ability is also a good safety for when you miscalculate in battle.

Outside of healing duties, Temenos can also chip away at enemy Shield Points without having to account for elemental weaknesses. His Moonlight Judgement Talent, meanwhile, applies several debuffs on all enemies at night time. Upon activation of Moonlight Judgement, all enemies are blinded, have lower accuracy, and have low physical and elemental defenses. Your party meanwhile, is safeguarded from oncoming attacks.

Temenos Mistral Character Guide

Hikari Ku (Warrior)

Initial Job Class	Warrior
Initial Damage Types	Sword, Polearm

Hikari is a straightforward offensive character specializing in physical attacks. He requires very little resource management and is essentially a constant source of damage for your party. You can somewhat make Hikari more well-rounded using his Learned Skills Talent, though will still not be as flexible as other characters.

Hikari Ku Character Guide

Osvald V. Vanstein (Scholar)

Initial Job Class	Scholar
Initial Damage Types	Stave, Fire, Ice, Lightning

Osvald is the party’s best magic attacker with access to a variety of elemental spells to nuke multiple targets. For boss battles, Osvald can use his Latent Power to change any multi-target magic into single-target to make them more powerful. Damage can further be increased when the enemy is in Break status or when Osvald is boosted.

Osvald V. Vanstein Character Guide

Agnea Bristarni (Dancer)

Initial Job Class	Dancer
Initial Damage Types	Dagger, Wind

Agnea specializes in the support role by applying useful buffs on allies that can make them last longer thanks to her The Show Goes On passive. This makes her somewhat useful during drawn-out battles or against bosses with very high HP and Shield Points.

Agnea is also able to temporarily invite NPCs to her side and call them into battle using her Allure Path Action. This also allows Agnea to activate certain support effects that are unique to each NPC.

Agnea Bristani Character Guide

Castti Florenz (Apothecary)

Initial Job Class	Apothecary
Initial Damage Types	Axe, Dark, Ice, Light, Wind

Castti is a versatile character that can greatly contribute to both damage dealing and support duties using her Concoct Talent. While dependent on resources, Castti’s concoctions have several useful effects in one, such as damaging enemies while healing allies or applying buffs (allies) and debuffs (enemies) at the same time.

When short on materials, Castti can use her Latent Power to ignore required items and craft any concoction in battle.

Castti Florenz Character Guide

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