Players in Octopath Traveler 2 have a chance to encounter rare enemies called Octopuff Travelers. Discover how to find and beat Octopuff Travelers and efficiently farm them, and the rewards for defeating each Octopuff variant.

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How to Farm Octopuff Travelers

How to Farm Octopuff Travelers
Rare Chance to Encounter Across All Region Unlock The More Rare Monsters Support Skill Obtain Octopuff Pot to Increase Spawn Rate Transform Enemies to Octopuffs With Dancer

Rare Chance to Encounter Across All Region

Octopuff Travelers are octopus-like enemies found in different regions of Solistia. They have high evasion stat and are quick to run away when sensing danger. Be prepared to defeat one quickly as you encounter them since they'll most likely flee from you before you reap the rewards.

Solistia Map and List of Regions

Unlock The More Rare Monsters Support Skill

Skill	Job	Description
More Rare Monsters	Hunter	Raises the chances of encountering rare monsters. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)

Increase the chance of having Octopuff Travelers appear in your encounters by unlocking the support skill More Rare Monsters. This can be achieved by having Ochette in your party or having someone get Hunter as their secondary job since it will increase the chance of encountering rare monsters.

Do note that these support skills will not stack with each other, and having one character have it is enough to increase the likelihood you'll encounter one.

Hunter Job Skills

Obtain Octopuff Pot to Increase Spawn Rate

NPC to Talk to	Location

Octopuff Pot is an equipable accessory that raises the chances of encountering Octopuff Travelers. This can be obtained by using a Path Action on a Fisherman in Conning Creek, Harborlands.

It will cost you 19,000 leaves to purchase the accessory if you use Partitio's Path Action on him.

Conning Creek Guide

Transform Enemies to Octopuffs With Bewildering Grace

Skill	Job	Description
Bewildering Grace	Dancer	Cause a curious effect to occur 1 time.

When using Agnea's dancer skill, Bewildering Grace, there's a slight chance you'll be able to transform enemies into an Octopuff Traveler. This only works on normal enemies and has a random chance of happening when BP is maxed out.

It's important that you defeat the transformed enemies as soon as possible, as they'll try to flee like their wild counterparts.

Dancer Guild Location and Skills

How to Beat Octopuff Travelers

How to Beat Octopuff Travelers
Secure Victory Using Hikari's Merciless Blade Use Soulstones Utilize Break and Boost Use Characters' Latent Power Use Hired Help Job Skill

Secure Victory Using Hikari's Merciless Blade

Map	World View

To easily beat any octopuff traveler you encounter, bring Hikari along and make him learn the skill called Merciless Blade. It's an offensive skill that allows Hikari to deal a fixed 3000 damage against an opponent.

However, obtaining Merciless Blade isn't easy since you need to defeat the Young Man NPC in Tropu'hopu to learn the skill. The Young Man has max strength and hits like a truck, so It's better to be adequately leveled when attempting to learn from him.

List of All Learned Skills

Use Soulstones

Normal Octopuff Travelers can be easily defeated with Soulstones. Soulstones deal magical damage, which means that they can hit enemies without fail. They also deal high damage so you don't have to worry about the Octopuff Traveler's shield points.

List of All Items, Materials, and Valuables

Utilize Break and Boost

Break an Octopuff Traveler's shield by exploiting their weaknesses. While they are in a break state, the enemy will be stunned, has lowered defense, and cannot move for one turn, meaning that you can take this opportunity to unleash your strong attacks against them!

Maximize damage while enemies are in this state by using Boost to enhance your attacks, spells, and skills.
Break and Boost System Guide

Use Characters' Latent Power

Latent Power is a new game mechanic that provides a powerful unique ability to each character. There are latent powers such as letting players access strong and unique skills, replenishing BP, changing spells' focus to a single enemy to make it strong, and many more. It's wise to utilize this mechanic when fighting an Octopuff Traveler.
All Latent Powers Explained

Use Hired Help Job Skill

Skill	Job	Description
Hired Help	Merchant	Pay money to summon hired help to the battlefield.

A skill with high accuracy like Partitio's Hired Help are effective against Octopuff Travelers. Use boost to increase the hit rate since, even with its high accuracy, it doesn't always hit.

Octopuff Travelers have a high evasion rate, so choose the one that can be summoned with 7000 Leaves for a higher chance of hitting the enemy.

Merchant Job Skills, Support Skills, and How to Get

Octopuff Traveler Rewards

Gives Massive Amounts of Leaves, EXP, and JP

Octopuff	Stats	Reward
Normal Octopuff	HP: 5 SP: 2 Weakness:	EXP: 500 EXP JP: 300 JP Leaves: 1500
King Octopuff	HP: - SP: 4 Weakness:	EXP: 1000 EXP JP: 1500 JP Leaves: 25000

Defeating a normal Octopuff Traveler should be on your farming priority list, as successfully killing one grants the player 1500 Leaves, 500 EXP, and 300 JP, while a King Octopuff gives 25000 Leaves, 1000 EXP and 1500 JP.

While the King rewards more experience points than its normal counterpart, it's much more difficult to kill without a proper setup. Make sure to use everything you have to take down the King Octopuff if you encounter one!

EXP Farming Guide: How to Level Up Fast

Skills That Increase EXP/JP/Leaves Gained

Skill	Job	Description
Hard Worker	Dancer	Receive additional JP after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)
Extra Experience	Scholar	Receive additional EXP after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)
Life in the Shadows	Thief	Receive additional EXP and JP after battles at night. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)
Grows on Trees	Merchant	Receive additional leaves after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)

You can boost the amount of EXP, JP, and Leaves you obtain defeating Octopuffs by having the following skills equipped in your party. Extra Experience can be obtained from Osvald while Life in the Shadows is obtained from Throne.

List of All Support Skills

Octopuff Traveler Variants

Octopuff Traveler Variants and Drops

Octopuff	Location	Drops
Island Octopuff Traveler	Toto'haha	Slippery Nut
Ocean Octopuff Traveler	Harborlands	Tough Nut
City Octopuff Traveler	Brightlands	Light Nut
Snowland Octopuff Traveler	Winterlands	Magic Nut
Wasteland Octopuff Traveler	Wildlands	Critical Nut
Forest Octopuff Traveler	Leaflands	Sharp Nut
Mountain Octopuff Traveler	Crestlands	Resistant Nut
Desert Octopuff Traveler	Hinoeuma	Fortifying Nut
Queen Octopuff	Everywhere	Invigorating Nut
King Octopuff	Everywhere	Nourishing Nut

Different types of Octopuff Travelers can be found in each region, with names and appearances that are fit for that region. However, they all still have the same rewards you get from defeating them, except for the items they drop.

Nuts Guide

How to Capture Octopuff Travelers

Chance to Capture Octopuffs With Ochette

When using Ochette, you have a 25% chance of automatically capturing the Octopuff Traveler if you're lucky enough. Octopuff Travelers has skills that inflict various debuffs on your enemies if you manage to capture one.

Best Monsters to Capture

Octopath Traveler 2 Related Guides

Octopath Traveler 2 Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks
Day and Night Cycle Guide	Boat and Canoe Guide
Travel Banter Guide	How to Fast Travel
What to Do at Taverns	All Radar Icons Explained
Should You Choose Mahina or Akala?	How to Restore Reputation
Nuts Guide	Trophy and Achievements
Crossed Paths Guide	Missables Guide
Ship Guide and Features	True Ending Guide
Is There New Game Plus?	100 Percent Completion Guide
Drinking the Forbidden Elixir	How to Learn Limb from Limb Skill
Tier List and Best Guides
Best Weapons to Use	Best Secondary Jobs
Best Party Setup	Best Support Skills
Best Starting Character	Best Concoction Recipes
Best Character Tier List
Farming Guides
Money Farming Guide	JP Farming Guide
Octopuff Traveler Farming	Cait Farming
Jerky Farming Guide	Cait and Octopuff Differences
EXP Farming Guide
Location Guides
All Divine Weapon Locations	All Black Market Locations
All Guild Locations	All Altar Locations
Inventor Item Locations	All Gramophone Locations
All Legendary Arms Locations
Path Action Guides
Path Actions Explained	Best Items and Weapons to Steal
Best Monsters to Capture	Best NPCs to Allure
Best Skills to Learn from Challenges
Battle and Combat Guides
Break and Boost Guide	All Latent Powers Explained
Combat Bonuses Guide	How to Increase Encounter Rate
Status Effects and Buffs Explained	All Stats and Attributes
Controls and Settings
Difficulty Settings Guide	Recommended Settings
How to Skip Cutscenes	Basic Controls and How to Save
How to Transfer Demo Save Data