With 8 playable characters and numerous NPC companions to summon, there are an insane amount of Octopath Traveler party combinations you can try to set up your team for different encounters.
Before forming any combination, you need to level up each character to be able to use their full potential. We have prepared the 5 best combinations you can make and assign the suitable sub-class to each from the many possible combinations in Octopath Traveler.
Party Setup Against Spell Casters
| Cyrus | Scholar |
| Ophilia | Cleric |
| Primrose | Dancer |
| Olberic | Warrior |
Having Primrose, Cyrus, and Ophilia allow you to inflict elemental damage on enemies. This is an ideal party setup against spell casters. Now, with Ophilia, you don’t worry about your health, as she plays like a healer. Olberic is a perfect choice for physical damage.
Moving on to Primrose, she weakens the enemies with her dance moves, and lastly, Cyrus does elemental magic like lightning, bolt, firestorm, etc. This party setup allows you to analyze the enemy’s upcoming moves.
Party Setup to Increase Enemy Damage
| H’aanit | Hunter |
| Olberic | Warrior |
| Ophilia | Cleric |
| Therion | Thief |
Having a hunter and warrior lets you take on and win against any enemy in front. Let’s understand this composition a little more, H’aanit can attack multiple foes at once, which is incredibly useful when facing hordes. Because of this ability and amount of damage, H’aanit should have a Warrior sub-class.
Now, with Olberic’s ability to defeat foes one by one is very beneficial when fighting one on one fight. Having Ophilia in the party allows you to heal the members, and Therion helps you boost stats.
This combination is the strongest in terms of physical attacks on your enemies.
Party Setup for Early Game
| Alfyn | Apothecary |
| Therion | Thief |
| Tressa | Merchant |
| Ophilia | Cleric |
Money and resources are essential to the game, as they are needed to buy weapons or potions from various shops. Having Therion and Tressa in your teams means you don’t have to worry about money and resources, as they steal them from enemies. Ophilia’s healing abilities and Alfyn’s apothecary skills perfectly complement each other. It is necessary to assign sub-classes to each one according to their abilities.
Tressa’s stealing abilities are perfect for the sub-class Thief and Therion as a sub-class Merchant. These will benefit you in getting items and wealth. With the apothecary skills of helping teammates of Therion and the elemental magic of Ophilia, it is wise to choose them as the Cleric sub-class and Sorcerer sub-class, respectively.
Party Setup for High DPS and Physical Damage
| Throne | Thief |
| Agnea | Dancer |
| Ochette | Hunter |
| Castti | Apothecary |
This is the best party setup allows you to inflict physical damage to stun enemies in Octopath Traveler. Having Castti in the team always gives you a healer, while Ochette and Throne let you exploit enemy weakness for physical damage.
With two damage dealers and Agnea, you can quickly remove enemy shields and apply the status effects to weaken them. Now, with Throne, you can assign their secondary job to Inventor and get AoE attacks merged with Ruinous Kick and Dagger Dance attacks.
This party setup is perfect when you want to stun enemies often during the battle with high DPS and physical damage effects and decent healing throughout the phase.
Traditional Party Setup
| Hikari | Warrior |
| Throne | Thief |
| Osvald | Scholar |
| Temenos | Cleric |
If you’re still unsure what composition you should go with, choose the above characters. One thing about this setup is that you can easily use these characters to switch battle strategies. Hikari is the main damage-dealing member and provides defense through learned skills.
As for Throne, you get the best DPS and multi-target attacks, Osvald buffs allies and deals damage using spells, and Temenos is a support mage. This balanced, straightforward build is great for learning basic combat mechanics.
