Best Party Setup and Team Composition

This page covers all the best party setups and compositions in Octopath Traveler 2. Read on to know the best party composition for when you're out exploring and for each character, as well as how to set up your own party composition!

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Best Party Setup For Exploration

Use Osvald's Boosted Elemental Spells

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Osvald	【Elemental Attacker】 ・Destroy enemies using Osvald's elemental attacks. ・Uses Osvald's LP to destroy strong enemies in the second turn.
Throne Temenos	【Main Buffer】 ・Greatly increases the damage output due to Moonlight Judgement and Blessing of Darkness. ・Grants Players a chance to survive the first turn due to Blessing of Darkness' effects.

A party composition that excels very well at night time due to the benefits gained from Throne's Blessing of Darkness and Temenos' Moonlight Judgment, which gives the whole party a buff that strengthens all allies for 3 turns while inflicting debuffs on the enemy.

Boost Osvald's attack at the first turn with all the buffs that augment his attack power and unleash it all on the 2nd turn to wipe all enemies encountered. Since Moonlight Judgement inflicts a debuff that makes enemies miss, there's a likely chance that the party can survive the enemy's attack at the first turn.

Use Ochette and Hikari's Latent Power

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Hikari Ochette	【Physical Attackers】 ・Requires Merchant to be their secondary job to work. ・Makes full use of Latent Power to overwhelm enemies with their high physical attack.
Throne Temenos	【Main Buffer】 ・Greatly increases the damage output due to Moonlight Judgement and Blessing of Darkness. ・Grants Players a chance to survive the first turn due to Blessing of Darkness' effects.

This party composition focuses on dealing massive amounts of physical damage to your enemies by utilizing Hikari and Ochette's Latent Power. You'll need to assign Merchant on both of their secondary jobs to get them the skill Full Power to get them to use LP at the start of the fight. It's also recommended that you bring Throne and Temenos to your party, as they give you effects that buff your party and weaken the enemy.

The only problem with this build is that in order to get Merchant's Full Power, the game will require you to have 7 Skills, which totals 4,630 JP. Though it will take time to farm JP, you can always use Boost-Start, which automatically gives 1 BP at the start of the battle to increase the amount of damage you deal.

All Latent Powers Explained

Solar Ray Clock Spam

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Ochette	【Main DPS】 ・Uses Light Revenant to attack foes. ・Can carry until later parts of the game. ・Very broken in the early to mid stages.
Partitio	【BP Supporter】 ・Main role is to use Donate BP to Ochette. ・Using Inventor allows him to act first.
Agnea	【Turn Order Manipulator】 ・Makes use of Stimulate to change turn order. ・First to act most of the time due to her speed. ・Can also use Inventor for a guaranteed first in order.

This party composition requires Ochette to capture a Light Revenant to get the Solar Ray Clock skill that deals strong light damage to all foes and grants the party physical and elemental defense. Attempting to capture the monsters in the early game will obviously take some time before you can do so. But if you do manage to capture the monsters, the payoff will be extremely good, as the Light Revenant should be capable of carrying you until late game.

To make the most out of its damage output, you need to use Partitio's Donate BP on Ochette to increase her damage output. Since Agnea will most likely be first to act during a turn, you can use her skill Stimulate to make sure Partitio gets to go first, before Ochette or other monsters. If you can, it's also a good idea to have an Inventor in your party to get A Step Ahead and allow you to act first at the start of the battle.

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Best Party Composition for Each Character

Best Party Composition for Each Character
Hikari	Agnea	Throne	Osvald
Temenos	Partitio	Ochette	Castti

Best Party Composition for Hikari

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Hikari	【Physical Attacker】 ・Preserve as much BP as possible until the enemies' shield breaks. ・When their shield breaks, augment your skills using BP to strike your opponents down. ・Can use Incite with Vengeful Blade to act as a tank.
Temenos	【Healer and Shield Breaker】 ・Can easily break shields with Latent Power combined with any multi-hit and multi-target attacks. ・Heal Wounds to keep the entire party alive. ・Temenos has synergy with Throne during night battles with Moonlight Judgment.
Throne	【Debuffer】 ・Armor Corrosive decreases an enemy's defense. ・Has Veil of Darkness that allows the whole party to avoid Physical Attacks ・Blessing of Darkness strengthens all allies during the night at the start of the battle.
Partitio or Castti	【BP Raiser and Defensive Buffer】 ・Partitio can Donate BP, and Castti can use Pomegranate Leaf Medicinal Concoction to supply BPs. ・Partitio can hire cheap mercenaries to apply different effects, such as decreasing the enemies' physical defense, restoring SP, dealing additional damage, and so on. ・Castti can cleanse status ailments using Rehabilitate.

It's recommended that you pair Hikari with characters that synergize well with his physical prowess. Equipped with the Armsmaster or Hunter secondary jobs and equipped with a variety of learned skills makes him the most versatile physical attacker.

Throne's Blessing of Darkness that activates at night paired with Temenos' Moonlight Judgment will make Hikari's attacks more effective.

You can compliment his defense with Castti's strong single target healing and her status ailment cleansing skills or use Temenos' damage mitigation buffs. Throne also helps Hikari survive fatal blows from opponents using her Veil of Darkness.

Having Partitio or Castti in the party can add more power to Hikari's attacks by supplying him with BPs with Donate BP or Pomegranate Leaf Medicinal Concoction.

Hikari Ku Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Agnea

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Agnea	【Attack Up Buffer】 ・Can grant allies a buff to their elemental or physical attack. ・Can extend her buff to all her allies with the use of her Latent Power. ・Can use Stimulate to manipulate turn order. ・Having Apothecary as her secondary job allows her to cleanse the whole party of status ailments.
Hikari or Throne or Ochette	【Physical Attacker】 ・Preserve as much BP as possible until the enemies' shield breaks. ・When their shield breaks, augment your skills using BP to strike your opponents down. ・Deals a ton of damage thanks to Agnea's Lion Dance. ・Hikari can use Incite with Vengeful Blade to act as a tank. ・Throne's Aeber's Reckoning, Ochette's Draefendi's Bow, or a number of learned skills from Hikari can easily eliminate multiple enemies during the first few turns.
Partitio	【BP Raiser】 ・Partitio can Donate BP to allow characters to utilize their skills at Max Boost or to allow characters to use their Divine Skills in the first turn. ・Partitio can hire cheap mercenaries for a variety of effects such as decreasing the enemies' physical defense, restoring SP, dealing additional damage, and so on.
Temenos	【Healer and Shield Breaker】 ・Provides heals for everyone in the party ・Temenos has synergy with Throne during night battles with Moonlight Judgment. ・Strong damage mitigation skills ・Temenos' Latent Power works very well with the Dancer's Sealticge's Seduction Divine Skill and any multi-hit and multi-target attacks to immediately break multiple enemies' shields.

Agnea has a wide variety of skills that grants Physical and Elemental attacks. It's recommended that you add an attacker that can utilize these buffs, such as Hikari, Ochette, or Throne to create synergy. To increase the physical attack of his allies, Partitio can supply BPs and use Hired Help: Ruffian to decrease enemy defenses. Paired with Agnea's buffs, you can create an opportunity that allows the attacker to use their full might against your enemy.

For healing, it's recommended that you pick Temenos as your healer due to his ability to grant allies damage mitigation buffs, which Agnea lacks. Additionally, Temenos applied with the Dancer's Sealticge's Seduction Divine Skill can easily break the shields of multiple enemies.

Agnea Bristarni Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Throne

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Throne	【Physical Attacker and Debuffer】 ・Armor Corrosive reduces an enemy's defense. ・Veil of Darkness allows the whole party to evade physical attacks. ・Can also get damage done using Surprise Attack. ・Grants allies buff at night time with Blessing of Darkness. ・Throne's Aeber's Reckoning is one of the most powerful multi-target attacks and can easily defeat most enemies during the first turn with the right build.
Temenos	【Healer, Shield Breaker, and Night-Only Debuffer】 ・Provides heals for everyone in the party ・Can easily break shields with Latent Power combined with any multi-hit and multi-target attacks. ・Temenos has synergy with Throne during night battles with Moonlight Judgment. ・Strong damage mitigation skills
Partitio	【BP Raiser】 ・Partitio can Donate BP to allow Throne to utilize her divine skill in the first turn. ・Partitio can hire cheap mercenaries for a variety of effects such as decreasing the enemies' physical defense, restoring SP, dealing additional damage, and so on.
Agnea	【Attack Up Buffer】 ・Can grant allies a buff to their elemental or physical attack. ・Can extend her buff to all her allies with the use of her Latent Power. ・Can use Stimulate to manipulate turn order.

It's recommended that you pair Throne with Agnea, as both can increase the damage output of an attacker. Throne can use her skill to reduce an enemy's physical defense, while Agnea can increase the attack power of your chosen attacker.

Partitio can supply BPs to allow Throne to utilize her divine skill in the first turn which in some cases can eliminate multiple enemies immediately.

Temenos synergizes very well with Throne since both have access to night-only buffs, which extend to all party members. While this composition may lack a dedicated attacker that hits all enemies, Agnea can use her Latent Power and her Divine Skill to cover for this weakness.

Throne Anguis Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Osvald

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Osvald	【Elemental Attacker】 ・Can use 3 types of elemental attacks. ・His Latent Power, Concentrate Spells, allows him to deal massive damage on a single enemy. ・Can use Study Foe to discover enemy weak points at the start of the battle.
Agnea	【Damage Buffer】 ・Peacock Strut works well with Osvald to increase his damage output. ・Can extend her buff to all her allies with the use of her Latent Power. ・Can use Stimulate to manipulate turn order. ・Sealticge's Seduction allows Agnea to extend the skills of an ally to all.
Temenos	【Healer and Night-Only Debuffer】 ・Able to heal the entire party. ・Can grant Osvald Aelfric's Blessing, allowing him to act again after a turn. ・Provides debuff at night using Moonlight Judgment.
Partitio or Ochette	【BP Raiser and Buffer】 ・Can use Donate BP to make Osvald's attack stronger. ・Can hire cheap mercenaries with good physical defensive buffs. ・If DPS is lacking, he can use his Path Action to hire people with strong skills if he has the money. 【Defense Debuffer】 ・Able to use strong monsters to finish off enemies who survive Osvald's attack. ・Can manipulate an enemy's turn order with Leghold Trap. ・Can use Beastly Howl to reduce elemental defense for all foes.

Osvald is a strong elemental attacker that can use skills to improve his damage output. His Latent Power, Concentrate Spells, allows him to turn his spells into a strong single-target skill that deals a massive amount of damage. Using party members that augment his skill is recommended when having him as your main attacker.

For buffs, we use Agnea's Peacock Strut to strengthen Osvald's elemental attacks. She can also manipulate the turn order using her Stimulate skill, allowing you to easily set up buffs for Osvald. You can then use Partitio for his BP-raising skills or Ochette to reduce your enemy's defense using her Latent Power.

We also have Temenos in the party for his incredible damage mitigation skills and party-wide heals. At night time, he can provide a debuff that weakens his enemies at the start of the battle.

Osvald V. Vanstein Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Temenos

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Temenos	【Healer, Shield Breaker, and Defensive Buffer】 ・Night-Only debuffs that compliments Throne's Blessing of Darkness. ・Can easily break shields with Latent Power combined with any multi-hit and multi-target attacks. ・Supports allies by buffing elemental and physical defense. ・Has light-based elemental attacks.
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. ・Grants night-only buffs using Blessing of Darkness. ・Has dark-based elemental attacks.
Hikari or Ochette	【Physical Attacker】 ・Preserve as much BP as possible until the enemies' shield breaks. ・When their shield breaks, augment your skills using BP to strike your opponents down. ・Deals a ton of damage thanks to Agnea's Lion Dance. ・Hikari can use Incite with Vengeful Blade to act as a tank. ・Ochette's Draefendi's Bow or a number of learned skills from Hikari can easily eliminate multiple enemies during the first few turns.
Agnea	【Attack Up Buffer】 ・Can use buffs that increase attack power. ・Has wind-based elemental attacks. ・Can use Stimulate to manipulate turn order. ・Can use Sealticge's Seduction to extend the skill of her allies to all. ・Throne's debuff with Agnea's buff maximizes physical attack power.

Recommended party composition if Temenos is the main character is to use Temenos with Throne, as they both grant status effects that weaken enemies and strengthen allies at night.

To maximize the Temenos' Latent Power, we put Agnea in the party for her the Dancer's Sealticge's Seduction in addition to the other buffs she can contribute.

Hikari or Ochette are good choices as your attackers, as Throne's debuffs reduce the physical defense of an enemy.

Temenos Mistral Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Partitio

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Partitio	【BP Raiser and Buffer】 ・Can Donate BP to attackers. ・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.
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.
Hikari or Osvald	【Physical Attacker】 ・Preserve as much BP as possible until the enemies' shield breaks. ・When their shield breaks, augment your skills using BP to strike your opponents down. ・Can use Incite with Vengeful Blade to act as a tank. 【Elemental Attacker】 ・Can use 3 elemental attacks. ・His Latent Power, Concentrate Spells, allows him to deal massive damage on a single enemy. ・Can use Study Foe to discover enemy weak points at the start of the battle.
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.

Partitio has the advantage of being able to work with any party member set up due to his job as a Merchant. He also has a powerful Latent Power that lets him instantly replenish an ally's BP.

It's recommended that you pair him up with Ochette, whose skill can capture monsters to use their strongest skills. At max BP, she can destroy her enemies instantly with the help of Partitio. The rest of the party members can be a preference on who to pick, but we suggest having another DPS that fully utilizes BP and a healer in the mix.

Partitio Yellowil Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Ochette

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 can be very flexible in combat, depending on the monsters she has captured. She can work with just about anyone, but if you really need to amplify the amount of damage you can deal with your monsters, having Partitio, who can raise allies' BP, can help increase her damage.

For the healing role, you can choose either Castti or Temenos, depending on your preference, as both work well with Ochette. Finally, we have Throne as the main Debuffer with her Armor Corrosive to reduce the physical defense of a single foe. Her EX skill Veil of Darkness also helps as a defensive tool against a physical attacker.

Ochette Character Profile

Best Party Composition for Castti

Traveler	Role and Explanation
Castti	【Healer, buffer and debuffer】 ・Can both Heal and support using buffs. ・Tenacious healer with high HP. ・Can attack with all 4 elemental attacks using her concoction. ・Able to recover HP while attacking using Replenish Health.
Hikari	【Physical Attacker】 ・Preserve as much BP as possible until the enemies' shield breaks. ・When their shield breaks, augment your skills using BP to strike your opponents down. ・Can use Incite with Vengeful Blade to act as a tank.
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. ・Provides Castti with BP to increase the number of concoctions she can make.
Ochette	【Flexible Support 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.

This setup is recommended if you choose Castti as the main character. Since Castti can play the role of a healer, buffer, and debuffer due to the effects of concoctions, having an attacker like Hikari in the party will make full use of her kit to boost their DPS. To make his damage even more effective, we can put Partitio in the party to increase his BP.

You can also use Donate BP on Castti instead and allow her to increase the number of concoctions she can make. Finally, we add Ochette to the mix due to her flexibility as a support DPS. This is due to the skill that allows her to capture monsters and use them in combat.

Castti Florenz Character Profile

How to Setup a Team Composition

How to Setup a Party
Check Each Character's Strengths and Weaknesses Organize Each Role Based on Their Skills EX and Divine Skills Greatly Affect Party Composition Secondary Job Combination Matters a Lot

Check Each Character's Strengths and Weaknesses

Before you start deciding how you can set up a party, it's important that you try all the characters in the game first. Learning what each character does, what they excel at, and their weakness will help you determine what role this character can play when setting up a proper team composition.

List of All Characters and Playable Heroes

Organize Each Role Based on Their Skills

Once you familiarize yourself with how each character works, you can assign each on how they'll play in your team composition. To make it easier to know which role is best for a character, you'll need to look into what their kit does and how it affects other characters.

If a character has a lot of healing or augmenting skills in their kit, they should be under a support or healer role. Obviously, as you progress through the game, your character's set of skills will be more diverse, but having something already set is always a good start.

List of All Skills

EX and Divine Skills Greatly Affect Party Composition

You'll be able to unlock EX Skills or Divine Skills as you get further into the game. This can greatly change your party composition since, in most cases, you will have to base your composition around these powerful skills.

List of All Divine Skills

Secondary Job Combination Matters a Lot

The depth of the game starts to show once you start unlocking secondary jobs for your character. There are a ton of party combinations available in the game. It's likely that you will have to change your lineup a lot as you progress through the game.

Of course, there isn't a single right answer on which composition is the best, as most combinations will have their own strengths and weaknesses.

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