This character guide for the Hunter Ochette in Octopath Traveler 2 highlights her story and her unique functions. It breaks down the actions unique to Ochette including Path Actions and Abilities.
Ochette’s Unique Actions
Each Traveler has unique abilities specific to them, referred to as Path Actions, which they get two, one for each time of day. These can accomplish a variety of goals from accessing new areas, and information on the world, or providing additional information.
Path Actions are only available to the character that starts with this job, in this case, Ochette. They must be in your party to perform the Path Actions below.
Day Path Action: Provoke
Provoke allows Ochette to fight NPCs using her captured beasts. When Victorious, the NPC is knocked unconscious, much like Challenge.
Provoke is a level-based Path Action, and there’s a required level to challenge an NPC. However, it will always be a different level than Hikari’s Challenge action, as some NPCs are much more susceptible to this action.
Failing to successfully win a duel with the Provoke Path Action will lower your reputation in a town. This can make it a much riskier option compared to Challenge if both options are available.
As the daytime counterpart to Hikari’s Challenge Path Action and both involving duels, there are two main factors to consider for which one you do. Which one is available is the big one, as not all NPCs will be affected by one or the other. One will always be easier to do over the other, but that varies by NPC.
Beyond that, it comes down to which Beasts Ochette can use as she has to fight with them, versus what Learned Skills and jobs are equipped on Hikari. Ochette is much more limited in the available skills, having to rely strictly on her beasts. One saving grace of this is that her starting companion has the means to hit either physical or Elemental weaknesses.
Night Path Action: Befriend
Befriend allows Ochette to befriend an NPC by bribing them with food. These food items are specific to Ochette’s Prepare Talent. Once befriended, they will follow Ochette into battle, similar to Cleric’s Guide or Dancer’s Allure.
Befriend has an item requirement, rather than a level or chance. This means it cannot fail, but you are required to have a specific type of meat and a certain quantity of it on hand to befriend them.
While this is one of the most reliable ways to recruit NPCs, it can also be the most tedious. It’s not blocked by level like Guide, or by chance with Allure; but the food items can only be gotten via Ochettes’ Prepare Talent. This means capturing beasts, and even rare ones at that to get higher-quality meats.
Similar to Allure and Guide, NPCs summoned by this Action can have a wide variety of skills, but also occasionally block attacks for Ochette.
It’s likely that this skill will be easier if there are NPCs that enhance the Prepare action, rather than being directly enhanced itself.
Befriend is the nighttime equivalent of Partitio’s Hire Path Action. Both require some form of resource to recruit an ally and neither can fail. However, the meat used for Befriend is much more tedious to get. This often makes Hire a superior option, except in the case that the Hire price is absurdly high.
Talent: Capture
Ochette’s Talent is called Capture. Capture allows Ochette to capture many non-humanoid foes and summon them in battle. The chance of success increases as the foe’s health is lowered.
You can enable a setting for Ochette that also grants her a 25% Chance to automatically capture a defeated foe. This can ease the required grind for collecting meat to use with Befriend.
Summoning a creature in battle using the Beast Lore command will result in a creature using a specific skill. This is always a predetermined skill, shown when capturing the beast. These skill can range of Physical Attacks, Elemental Attacks, single-target attacks, multi-target attacks, buffs, and debuffs.
This can give Ochette a lot of options in battle. Though like Hikari’s Learned Skills, Ochette is limited to how many beasts she can have captured. If your beast roster is full when capturing another, you’ll be able to choose which creature is prepared.
Talent: Prepare
Ochette has another talent that relies on Capture called Prepare. This allows Ochette to prepare a captured beast as food.
This food has a variety of uses, creating a range of different items that can provide healing or be used to Befriend an NPC. These range from Rotten Meat, up to Perfect Jerky, which increases both the healing effects if used in battle but also the strength of the allies you can Befriend.
Which type of meat a captured beast becomes appears to be determined mainly by the beast’s rarity. So less common creatures are more likely to result in better quality meat.
Latent Power: Animal Instincts
Latent Powers are a new feature to Octopath Traveler 2, which gives each traveler an ability that’s completely unique to them. These skills are earned by building the Latent Power Gauge by receiving damage and breaking foes. Using a Latent Power expends the gauge to provide its effects and does not require SP.
Ochette’s Latent Power is called Animal Instincts. Activating this Latent Power gives Ochette access to a set of three special skills. These skills are called Beastly Claws, Beastly Howl, and Beastly Fangs. These cannot be used when performing the Provoke Path Action.
Beastly Claws allows Ochette to deal a powerful physical attack on all foes. This can be great for quickly ending an encounter, or easily removing additional foes from boss encounters. When Boosted, the damage of this skill increases.
Beastly Howl Reduces the Physical Defense and Elemental Defense of all foes for 3 turns and reduces their Shield Points regardless of Weaknesses. When Boosted, the debuffs applied by this skill increase in duration.
This is great for quickly and easily amping the damage of your entire party, while potentially breaking to set up for even more damage. It’s important to note that breaking foes with this ability can contribute charge toward the next use of your Latent Power.
Beastly Fangs perform a highly powerful physical attack on a single foe. This is great if you don’t need to other two effects and are looking to just deal a ton of damage to a boss or another strong foe. When Boosted, the damage of this skill increases.
Similar to Hikari’s Latent Power Shadow’s Hold, each of these effects has its own respective situations where they excel.
Ochette’s Hunter Skills
Ochette’s starting job is Hunter. With that comes a set of active and passive skills that complete the character. Hunters are primarily physical damage dealers but are also able to command beasts to perform a wide variety of attacks.
For more information on Ochette’s job as a Hunter, check out our Hunter Job Guide. This covers all the skills of the Hunter in-depth as well as any synergies that Ochette and the Hunter job have with the other jobs available in the game.
Ochette’s EX Skills
EX Skills are a new feature of Octopath Traveler 2. Each Traveler has two skills unique to them that the other Travelers cannot get. These are often powerful attacks or skills with powerful utility.
Indomitable Beast
- Skill Type: Buff
- SP Cost: 18
- Effect: Raises your Evasion, Physical Attack, and Speed for 3 turns
- Boost Effect: Increase buff duration by 2 turns per BP spent.
This is an excellent buff for a physical attacker like Ochette. Combined with her Take Aim skill, she’s able to give herself every relevant buff for damage. While Evasion doesn’t particularly contribute to this, it’s still welcomed as a defensive buff.
Where to Unlock Indomitable Beast
Indomitable Beast can be obtained by taking Ochette to the Altar of the Huntress. She is required to be in the active party, or she will not receive this skill.
This Altar can be found in the Western Trou’hopu Traverse. When exiting from Tropu’hopu, head west just a bit until you see the chest in the image above. Run straight south and you’ll enter the altar room.
Provoke Beasts
- Skill Type: Varies
- SP Cost: 48
- Effect: Select 3 Captured Beasts and provoke them in order.
- Boost Effect: Provokes an additional beast per BP Spent.
This skill gives Ochette a ton of flexibility. While you can use it to provoke multiple beasts, it tends to work best with beasts that use multi-hit skills and are great for breaking, or more supportive beasts that buff or debuff.
This is because many of the harder-hitting beasts also require a full boost to summon and cannot be used with this skill as a result. These beasts also tend to be strong single hits, so while it could theoretically be an insanely high source of damage, this keeps it in check. It can still do reasonably high damage if you have the right beasts.
Where to Unlock Provoke Beasts
As her second EX Skill, Provoke Beasts becomes available upon completion of Ochette’s story. This means she will not have access to it during the final boss of her final chapter on Toto’haha.
Ochette’s Story
The sections below are details on Ochette’s Story in Octopath Traveler 2. As such, there are many spoilers below.
Overview
Ochette is a Hunter, raised by Master Juvah, the guardian of the island she calls home. During her Training, Master Juvah presents her with a choice of a companion, between two rare beasts to help her along as a Hunter.
Many years later, she learns of a coming calamity that threatens the island. Master Juvah sends to out to find three legendary beasts to request their aid and bring them to the island to prevent this calamity. So as directed, she sets out on her journey to find these beasts.
Chapter 1
Master Juvah takes in and raises Ochette as his own, having a premonition that she will one day be the savior of the island they call home. Juvah raises her to be a capable Hunter, and even presents her with choice between two rare creatures to keep as a companion.
Ten years go by, and Ochette has become a very talented Hunter under Juvah’s wisdom. She Captures and Prepares a KIng Iguana to share with her village as well a Master Juvah. On her arrival back to the village, there are a group of humans threatening her fellow beastlings, whom Ochette runs off.
After splitting the food among the village, she joins Juvah on the western hill. Juvah tells her that he’s raised her to be his successor, should he pass. In the middle of their discussion, another group of humans arrives, being led by Cohazeh the chief of the human village. They attempt to bribe Juvah into helping rescue a child that becomes lost in the Tomb of the Wardenbeasts.
Juvah promptly declines, but Ochette agrees to help, knowing the risk she’s taking. Juvah allow her to go. She set off for the Tomb of the Wardenbeasts, and before long find the missing child. She befriends the child with Jerky, convincing her to follow. As they exit the Tomb of the Wardenbeasts, many of the Beastlings rush up to Ochette, letting her know the village is in danger.
Ochette quickly rushes to the village to help Master Juvah. She find Juvah find a large, mysterious creature. Juvah tries to tell her to run, but Ochette defiantly stays and fights.
After dispatching the strange creature, Juvah tells her to tale of the calamity known as The Night of the Scarlet Moon. Juvah says that Ochette will need to seek out the assistance of the three Beasts of Legend, in hope of stopping this coming calamity.
With her duty being given to her, Ochette sets out in search of the Beast of Legend to save her home.
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