Best Monsters to Capture

Octopath Traveler 2 allows players to capture monsters using Ochette's talent to use them in combat or turn them into food. Find out the best monsters to capture in different phases of the game and the advantages of capturing monsters.

Best Monsters to Capture Early Game

Capture List
Light Revenant Vagrant Ratking

Light Revenant Location

Encountered at Cavern of Waves, Toto'haha

Map				World View
Strength		10		Shield		7
Skill		Solar Ray Clock (All)
Prepare		Stone-Roasted Rice x4
Weakness

A Light Revenant can be encountered inside the Cavern of Waves, Toto'haha region. When captured, Ochette can summon the Light Revenant, which can use Solar Ray Clock that deals 9999 damage to all enemies and buffs the party's physical and elemental defense.

Cavern of Waves Guide

Vagrant Ratking II Location

Found in the Forsaken Graveyard

Map				World View
Strength		7		Shield		4
Skill		Double Cleave (All)
Prepare		Spicy Jerky x3
Weakness

A monster with a high damaging skill that lets you hit all enemies twice using an Axe attack. It can be challenging to capture but worth it in the long run, especially against single-target enemies. It's also near a town, just south of Montwise, so you don't have to go too far to get it.

Forsaken Graveyard Guide

Best Monsters to Capture Mid-Game

Capture List
Ocean Lizardking III Sea Dragon Chubby Cait Manymaws

Ocean Lizardking III Location

Found in Roque Island, Harborlands

Map				World View
Strength		9		Shield		5
Skill		Repeated Phantom Slash
Prepare		Superior Jerkey x3
Weakness

Has access to a strong physical skill that hits a single enemy twice with a dagger attack and grants buffs that increases the evasion and speed stat of all allies. They can be found in Roque Island, which can be accessed using a Boat, which you can get from completing Partitio's Scent of Commerce Quest in Tropu'hopu, Toto'haha.

Roque Island Guide

Sea Dragon Location

Found in The Sundering Sea

Map				World View
Strength		6		Shield		4
Skill		Double Tain Spin (All)
Prepare		Salted Seafood x3
Weakness

Sea Dragon's physical attack skill lets you use a Sword Attack twice on all enemies. However, to capture the Sea Dragon, you'll need to buy a boat, which you can do by initiating Partitio's Scent of Commerce Quest in Tropu'hopu in Toto'haha. The boat costs 100,000 leaves but lets you travel the sundering sea and access other areas.

Partitio Scent of Commerce (Tropu'hopu)

Chubby Cait Location

Found Everywhere in Solistia

Map				World View
Strength		8		Shield		4
Skill		Supreme Luck of the Cait
Prepare		Jewel Cake x4
Weakness

Chubby Caits can be found randomly across all regions of Solistia and are a challenge to capture. The best way you can capture Caits without it running away is by hoping your attacks burn through their shield or hope that the 25% chance of capturing when defeating will work.

If you manage to capture a Chubby Cait, it will grant you an assortment of buffs that might be able to turn the tide of battle.

Cait Farming

Manymaws Location

Found in the Unfinished Tunnel, Wildlands

Map				World View
Strength		9		Shield		6
Skill		Rancid Odor
Prepare		Perfect Jerky
Weakness

Manymaws can be found in the Unfinished Tunnel, Wildlands. To capture Manymaws, complete the side-quest, The Cave Monster, where you defeat it as a boss fight. Afterward, Manymaws can be encountered in the tunnels as a normal monster.

Manymaws' exclusive skill, Rancid Odor, will be available for you to use during combat, which allows you to inflict all kinds of status ailments and reduces the enemies' physical and elemental defense. The only downside with Manymaws is that it can only be summoned once per battle and requires max BP.

Unfinished Tunnel Guide

Best Monsters to Capture Late Game

Capture List
Monsters With Multiple Attacks Battle-Worn Shark Dreadwolf Scourge of the Sea Devourer of Dreams

Monsters With Multiple Attacks

At this point in the game, Ochette's DPS starts to fall off, with most of the high damage numbers coming from Hikari instead. This doesn't mean Ochette becomes unreliable as she can now transition from your main DPS into a support that can burn through all of her enemies' shield points instantly using her EX Skill, Provoke Beasts.

It's recommended that you limit your one-time use captures to three or fewer and focus on capturing monsters with skills that hit all enemies multiple times. It's also a good idea to have each monster cover one of the attack types for versatility.

Battle-Worn Shark Location

Encountered in The Sundering Sea

Map				World View
Strength		10		Shield		9
Skill		Complete Nourishment (All)
Prepare		Perfect Jerky x1
Weakness

You can encounter the Battle-Worn Shark randomly by going around The Sundering Sea, which you can access by buying a ship. If you haven't defeated the Battle-Worn Shark yet, you can find it lurking in the sea with its fins visible above the ocean. Ram your boat into the shark to bring up the prompt to fight it.

The shark offers a powerful skill that allows him to attack with a dagger on all enemies and recover all allies' HP/SP/BP at the same time. Helpful during situations where you need to go on the offensive while needing to heal up and raise all of your allies' resources. Later on, if you're focused on leveling your party up, defeating the Battle-Worn Shark is part of a method to level up fast.

EXP Farming Guide: How to Level Up Fast

Dreadwolf Location

Encountered in Beneath The Wall, Winterlands

Map				World View
Strength		10		Shield		9
Skill		True Mortal Fang (All)
Prepare		Perfect Jerky x1
Weakness

The Dreadwolf is a boss that can only be accessed by specifically falling from a wooden bridge inside Beneath The Wall. This requires you to have 7 characters in your party to access it. This can be achieved by using Path Actions Guide, Allure, Hire or Befriend on NPCs. It's not possible to capture the Dreadwolf during your first encounter, but once you defeat the wolf, you get a rare chance to encounter it again and be able to capture it like any other monster.

Dreadwolf offers players a skill that allows them to hit all enemies with a dagger attack 4x in a row, helping you shred their shield points quickly. The attack also inflicts Physical Defense and Speed down debuff on all enemies, allowing you to perform actions faster next turn and making your physical attack even stronger.

Dreadwolf Boss Guide

Scourge of the Sea Location

Encountered in The Sundering Sea

Map				World View
Strength		10		Shield		12
Skill		Left Straight
Prepare		Perfect Jerky x1
Weakness

Scourge of the Sea is a rare monster that you can encounter initially at a whirlpool in the seas between Toto'haha and Brightlands. Defeating it allows you to encounter it randomly as a normal monster. Capturing this monster will be difficult since it forces you to fight with only one traveler.

Once you capture the monster, you're given access to the skill called Left Straight, which allows you to hit an enemy once with a staff attack and burn through all 6 of their shield points instantly, regardless of weakness. Extremely useful on bosses or farming runs, where you want to melt all of your enemies' shields fast.

Scourge of the Sea Boss Guide

Devourer of Dreams

Encountered in the Forsaken Graveyard, Crestlands

Map				World View
Strength		10		Shield		10
Skill		Invitation to Nightmares (All)
Prepare		Perfect Jerky x1
Weakness

Devourer of Dreams can be found at the Forsaken Graveyard, south of Montwise, Crestlands. This boss can only be captured once it is defeated. You can encounter it by heading all the way to the south of the Graveyard, where it guards a treasure chest containing a legendary weapon. Once defeated, the Devourer of Dreams can be captured like any normal monster.

Devourer of Dreams offers players a defensive-focus skill that allows the whole party to dodge physical attacks and reflect magical attacks for 2 turns. It also buffs the party with a Speed up, ensuring that everyone will be able to act first on the next turn. This is useful when you want to set up buffs for your party to avoid getting hit as you set up.

Forsaken Graveyard Guide

How to Capture Monsters Easily

Weaken Monsters to Increase Capture Rate

Ochette can capture monsters she encounters in battle. The capture rate of a monster increases when the monster has low HP, is in a break state, gets inflicted by abnormal status, and its weaknesses get revealed.
Ochette Profile

Defeated Monsters Aren't Capturable

Be careful not to weaken the monster you're capturing too much to avoid defeating it accidentally. While Ochette offers a 25% chance of capturing the monster automatically, it's better to be guaranteed than to lose the monster you're looking for.

It's recommended to use Ochette's skill Mercy Strike when trying to capture monsters, as it will leave their health with 1 HP and avoid defeating it accidentally.

Advantages of Capturing Monsters

Capture Advantages
Stronger Skills at Early Levels Prepare Food and Use It as Currency Defeat Stronger Monsters Easily

Able to Access Stronger Skills at Early Levels

When capturing monsters, you gain skills that offer you an advantage during battles. In some cases, some of the monster's skills can also carry you pretty far in the game without trouble.

An example is when you properly set up a team that capitalizes the Light Revenant's Solar Ray Clock (All), which can destroy enemies until you're late in the game. This will allow you to breeze through the story, get yourself levels, and go on fights without much trouble.

Best Party Setup and Team Composition

Prepare Food and Use It as Currency

Another advantage of capturing monsters is getting access to the different types of food that offer recovery and buffs by preparing monsters. This will allow you to stockpile items you can use in combat for your party without spending a single dime.

Jerky can also be used as a currency when traveling to Toto'haha's Beasting Village, which lets you trade it for an assortment of items. You can also use the food Ochette makes to befriend people to join your party.

Jerky Farming Guide

Defeat Stronger Monsters Easily

When going against strong monsters, Ochette's capture can easily defeat them using her capture. Instead of depleting the monster's health, capture allows you to defeat them early if you're lucky enough, saving you the time and resources you'll have to use when doing it normally.

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