Ochette Character Guide: Best Build, Skills, and Job

Ochette, The Hunter, is one of the eight playable characters in Octopath Traveler 2 (Octopath 2). Read on to learn more about Ochette' profile and her role as a protagonist, the traveler's EX Skill location, best party setup, Job and Support Skills, the hero's Latent Power, Path Actions, voice actor, as well as the best Secondary Job and build for Ochette!

Ochette Profile and Best Secondary Job

Basic Information and Background

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Ochette
	Age	20
	Primary Job	Hunter
	Weapon	Axe Bow Lightning
	Path Action	Provoke
	Voice Actors	EN: Suzie Yeung JP: Aya Hirano
	Latent Power	Animal Instincts
	Talent	Capture/Prepare
Your name is Ochette, and you are a hunter. Your tale begins on the isle of Toto'haha alongside your fellow beastlings. Despite your troubles with the human islanders, you live a carefree life. That is, until you learn of an encroaching calamity known as the Night of the Scarlet Moon. Desperate to save your home, you set sail in search of those who can help...

Ochette
	Age	20
	Primary Job	Hunter
	Weapon	Axe Bow Lightning
	Path Action	Befriend
	Voice Actors	EN: Suzie Yeung JP: Aya Hirano
	Latent Power	Animal Instincts
	Talent	Capture/Prepare
Your name is Ochette, and you are a hunter. Your tale begins on the isle of Toto'haha alongside your fellow beastlings. Despite your troubles with the human islanders, you live a carefree life. That is, until you learn of an encroaching calamity known as the Night of the Scarlet Moon. Desperate to save your home, you set sail in search of those who can help...

Ochette Best Secondary Job and Build

Secondary Job

Explanation

Warrior

・Allows Ochette to augment her physical power using enhancing effects from both her job class and the Warrior. ・Using Abide, Take Aim, and Eagle Eye combined with her Latent Power is sure to deal a massive amount of damage on any enemies she takes on. ・Deal More Damage also increases the damage cap, improving her physical power even more. ・Covers sword, polearms, axe, and bow weapon types, making her versatile in breaking shields during battle.

The best Secondary Job for Ochette is Warrior. You can get this build by going to Sai, Hinoeuma and talking to the Warrior Guild Master at the Warrior Guild. He'll give you the Warrior License shortly after and you can equip it on Ochette from the Jobs menu.

Best Secondary Jobs and Class Combos

Ochette Tier Rating

Rating

Explanation

Excellent

・Her Latent Power allows her to use Beastly Howl, a skill that reduces physical and elemental defense on all foes. It also reduces the Shield Points of her opponent regardless of weak points. ・One of the most, if not the most powerful, talent in the game, which allows her to Capture monsters and uses them against foes. ・Extremely broken at early to mid-game, where she can destroy enemies using Light Revenant. ・Flexible in any role due to the number of monsters with different skills she can capture. ・Her EX skill, Indomitable Beast, makes her even more overpowered on top of what she already has. ・At late game, she becomes an excellent debuffer due to Leghold Trap.

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Ochette EX Skill Location

Find the Hunter Altar at Western Tropu'hopu Traverse, Toto'haha

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All Altar Locations

Make Sure to Have Ochette In Your Party

Before heading for Western Tropu'hopu Traverse, Toto'haha to get Ochette's EX Skill, you need to make sure that you have her in your party first. Otherwise, you won't be able to get her EX Skill.

Start Ochette's story or add her to your party by going to a tavern.

If you don't have her yet, you can always visit the altar again once you have her in your party.

Tavern Guide: Things to Do at Taverns

Finish Ochette's Story

Ochette's second and last EX Skill can only be obtained by finishing her story. It will automatically be given to her once you've cleared all chapters in her story.

Ochette's Storyline

Ochette Best Party Setup

Flexible Attacker

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Ochette	【Flexible DPS】 ・High physical attack power ・Very flexible in her role due to her ability to capture monsters. ・Can manipulate an enemy's turn order with Leghold Trap. ・Can use Beastly Howl to reduce elemental and physical defense for all foes.
Partitio	【BP-Raiser and Buffer】 ・Can Donate BP to allies that needs it. ・Can use the cheapest mercenary to grant physical defense buff ・If DPS is lacking, he can use his Path Action to hire people with strong skills if he has the money. ・Providing Ochette with BP makes her monsters stronger.
Castti or Temenos	【Healer and Buffer】 ・Castti's Healing Touch works as a heal and revive. ・Can cleanse status ailments using Rehabilitate. ・Can use concoctions to grant buffs. ・Temenos has synergy with Throne during night battles with Moonlight Judgment. ・Strong damage mitigation skills.
Throne	【Debuffer】 ・Can reduce physical defense using Armor Corrosive. ・Veil of Darkness allows the whole party to evade physical attacks. ・Can also get damage done using Surprise Attack. ・ Blessing of Darkness buffs the whole party at night. ・Can use dark-based elemental attacks.

Ochette is a flexible attacker thanks to her ability capture monsters and have them attack for her. With Partitio in the team, you can increase Ochette's damage output.

Recruit either Temenos or Castti to keep the team healthy, then have Throne debuff enemies while also buffing the whole party.

Best Party Setup and Team Composition

Ochette Primary Job and Skills

Hunter Job Skills

Skill	Description	Damage Type	SP
Mercy Strike	Unleash a bow attack on a single foe. Otherwise, lethal attacks will instead leave the target with 1 HP.	Bow	4
Precise Shot	Unleash a bow attack on selected foes 2 times.	Bow	6
Thunderbird	Deal lightning-based damage to a single foe.	Lightning	7
Take Aim	Raise the critical rate and accuracy of all allies for 2 turns.	-	8
Abating Orb	Nullify 1 of a single foe's augmenting effects.	-	9
Leghold Trap	Cause a single foe to act at the end of the turn for 2 turns.	-	10
Cleaving Blow	Unleash a powerful axe attack on a single foe and grant yourself positive status effects based on the foe's type.	Axe	12

List of All Job Skills

Hunter Support Skills

List of All Support Skills

Ochette Divine Skill

Skill	Description	Damage Type	SP
Draefendi's Bow	Unleash a powerful bow attack on all foes 3 times.	Bow	30

List of All Divine Skills

Ochette EX Skills

List of All EX Skills

Ochette Talent

Capture and Prepare

Ochette's talent, Capture and Prepare, allows her to capture or prepare monsters.

In a battle, you can either capture beasts so you can use them as summons in battles or turn them into items.

When capturing beasts as summons, we recommend getting those that can deal AoE damage so you can clear battlefields easily.

Best Starting Character: Who to Start With

Ochette Latent Power

Animal Instincts

Ochette's Latent Power, Animal Instincts, lets her access special skills and deal fatal blows to enemies.

Keep an eye on Ochette's Latent Power Gauge and let her inner beast loose when the gauge is full!

Latent Powers Explained

Ochette Path Actions

Day Path Action: Provoke

Ochette's Day Path Action is called Provoke - an ability that allows her to provoke a target into doing battle by launching a monster onto them.

Consequently, failing to win this battle will sully your reputation in town so make sure you're strong enough to defeat the person you provoked.

Reputation Guide: How to Restore Reputation

Night Path Action: Befriend

At night, Ochette can Befriend townspeople and lead them around. To do this, you need to gain their trust first by giving them their requested item.

All Path Actions Explained

Octopath Traveler 2 Related Guides

List of Characters and Heroes

All Playable Characters

Main Characters
Hikari	Agnea	Partitio	Osvald
Temenos	Throne	Ochette	Castti