Octopath Traveler 2: All Captured Monster Skills for Ochette

Capturing different monsters in Octopath Traveler 2 is a big part of the fun this game brings, and Ochette is THE hunter of the game. She can keep up to six monsters (plus Akala or Mahina), and the whole point behind collecting those monsters is that they can aid you in battle—or you can turn them into food and other useful items.

Since monsters in Octopath Traveler 2 come with unique skills and abilities that can give you the upper hand in your next fight, you should be strategic about which monsters you should try to catch and equip. Therefore, it is good to have an overview of all captured monster skills for Ochette, and this article brings you exactly that.

All Captured Monster Skills for Ochette

Monster skills in Octopath Traveler 2 can be arranged based on weapon type, elemental type, buffs/debuffs, or healing.

Captured Monster Skills in Octopath Traveler 2—Healing

Let’s start off with probably the most useful skills that monsters can grant you—the table below includes all the monsters with healing skills arranged by their strength.

Monster	Skill	Where to Catch
Shambling Weed	Restore Health (heal a single target 100 + 100 per BP)	Tombs of the Warden Beasts
Mossy Meep	Restore Health (heal a single target 100 + 100 per BP)	Forest Path (Cropdale)
Blue Jellyfish	Restore Health (heal a single target 100 + 100 per BP)	North Beasting Traverse
Meep	Restore Health (heal a single target 100 + 100 per BP)	New Delsta Flats
Gold Jellyfish	Restore Health (heal a single target 100 + 100 per BP)	Northern Ryu Sands
Two-Handed Hatchling	Restore More Health (heal a single target 600 + 400 per BP)	Crackridge Wilds
Cultured Cait	Deluxe Luck of the Cait (heal HP, restore SP or BP, or give HP/SP/BP regeneration to allies, depending on the variation)	Level 30 Areas (rare encounter)
Chubby Cait	Supreme Luck of the Cait (HP recovery, nullifying all damage buff, enfeebling effects, elemental attacks, etc. depending on the variation)	Extremely rare encounter

Captured Monster Skills in Octopath Traveler 2—Debuff Abilities

Here are the monsters with debuffing abilities in Octopath Traveler 2 and the locations where you can find them.

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Motley Slug	Expel Sputum (reduce the speed of one foe for 3 turns)	North Beasting Traverse
Giant Slug	Expel Sputum (reduce the speed of one foe for 3 turns)	Cathedral Cellars
Crimson Ammonite	Coil (deals damage and gives a chance of speed-down)	Cathedral Cellars
Night Raven	Intimidate (elemental and physical attack down for 3 turns on one enemy)	New Delsta Flats
Evil Jellyfish	Evil Eye (confuses the enemy)	North Beasting Traverse (at night)
Dire Army Ant	Acid Spray (damage to one enemy + physical and elemental attack debuff chance for 2 turns)	Northern Ryu Sands
Sandworm	Spit Sand (Damage to one foe + chance of blinding)	Northern Ryu Sands
Dread Jellyfish	Evil Eye (chance of confusing all enemies)	Western Tropu’hapu Traverse
Dire Night Raven	Blinding Mist (chance of blinding all enemies)	Abandoned Waterway
Antagonistic Ant	Wild Venom (chance of poisoning + 3 hits to random enemies)	Borderfall
Sticky Slug	Viscous Snare (chance of slowing down all enemies)	Western Tropu’hapu Traverse
Icky Slug	Expel Black Sputum (chance of physical attack and defense down)	Southern Clockbank Highroad
Sea Slug	Expel Blue Sputum (reduce physical defense for 2 turns for one enemy)	Lair of the Ursurper
Cait	Luck of the Cait (different stat downs on all enemies, depending on the variation)	Lower level areas (rare encounter)
Ocean Octopuff Traveler	Enervation (two random stat downs on one enemy)	Canalbrine (rare encounter)
City Octopuff Traveler	Enervation (two random stat downs on one enemy)	New Delsta (rare encounter)
Snowland Octopuff Traveler	Enervation (two random stat downs on one enemy)	Snowy areas (rare encounter)
Queen Octopuff	Extreme Enervation (1-3 random stat downs on all enemies)	Mid-level areas (extremely rare encounter)
King Octopuff	Extreme Enervation (2 random stat downs on all enemies)	High-level areas (extremely rare encounter)

Captured Monster Skills in Octopath Traveler 2—Buff Abilities

Here are the monsters with different buffs in Octopath Traveler 2 and the places where you can find them.

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Long-Eared Lloris	Light My Fire (attack increase for two turns on one target)	North Beasting Traverse
Hatchling	Hide in Shell (improved physical defense for two turns)	Wildlands (Southern Oresrush Wilds)
Shaggy Meep	Hasten (increases speed)	Brightlands (Eastern New Delsta Highroad)
Silky Cocoon	Coating Net (elemental defense increase for all allies for two turns)	Starfall Spring, Wellgrove Trail
Porcupine	Raise Quills (physical counter buff on a party member for countering two times)	Starfall Spring
Cait	Luck of the Cait (different stat-ups on all allies, depending on the variation)	Low-level areas (extremely rare encounter)
Giant Gator	Mighty Rampage (physical attack increase for the whole team)	Cavern of Waves (Toto’haha)

Captured Monster Elemental Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

There are six types of elemental attacks in Octopath Traveler 2—Fire, Ice, Wind, Lightning, Light, and Dark. Here are all the monsters with corresponding elemental skills arranged by elemental type.

Captured Monster Fire Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Fire Wisp	Fireshot (one hit)	Warm locations (rare encounter)
Salamander	Firestorm (one area of effect)	North Beastling Traverse (at night)
Fire Sentinel	Ignition	Sacred Guard Ship, Canalbrine
Ruby Beta	Combustion (two hits on one enemy)	Abandoned Waterway
Red Viper	Fireshot (one hit)	Sunken Maw

Captured Monster Ice Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Barnacle Crab	Icicle (one hit)	Canalbrine: Water Source
Ice Wisp	Freeze Shot (one hit)	Cold locations (rare encounter)
Ice Elemental	Blizzard (one area of effect)	Abandoned Waterway
Sapphire Beta	Icicle Storm (three ice hits on random enemies)	Conning Creek Coast (water)
Snow Yak	Ice Storm (one area of effect)	Ruffians’ Hideout

Captured Monster Wind Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Ash Raven	Flap (one hit)	Southern Cape Cold Snows
Howler	Flap (one hit)	Leaflands (Southern Cropdale Trail)
Dread Falcon	Featherstorm (one hit to all enemies)	Eastern Flamechurch Pass
White Howler	Featherstorm (one hit to all enemies)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Wind Wisp	Wind Shot (one hit)	Grassy locations (rare encounter)
Wind Curator	Hellwind (one hit)	Sacred Guard Ship (Canalbrine)
Horned Howler	Featherstorm (one hit to all enemies)	Starfall Spring
Black Howler	Soporific Winds (one area of effect + chance of putting foes to sleep)	Western Tropu’hapu Traverse
Tempest Falcon	Twister (one hit to all enemies)	Crackridge Wilds
Great Condor	Featherstorm (one hit to all enemies)	Southern Oresrush Wilds
Wind Remnant Mk. II	Tempest	Cavern of Waves (Toto’haha)

Captured Monster Lightning Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Thunder Wisp	Thundershot (one hit)	Tropical locations (rare encounter)
Rock Tortoise	Thunderstorm (one area of effect)	Western Canalbrine Coast
Thunder Sentinel	Electrocute (one hit)	Theatre: Backstage (New Delsta)
Lightning Panther	Multishock (two hits on one enemy)	Ruffians’ Hideout

Captured Monster Light Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Light Sentinel	Flash (one hit)	Diamante’s Estate (New Delsta)
Light Wisp	Lightshot (one hit)	Theatre: Backstage (New Delsta)
Light Revenant	Solar Ray Clock (light attack area of effect that adds buffs to the whole team)	Cavern of Waves (Toto’haha)

Captured Monster Dark Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Skull Roller	Eternal Darkness (one hit on one enemy)	Northern Ryu Sands
Shadow Wisp	Shadowshot (one elemental hit)	Flamechurch area (rare encounter)
Shaggy Aurochs	Darkness (one elemental hit to all enemies)	Borderfall
Demon Deer	Darkness (one elemental hit to all enemies)	Wellgrove Trail
Demon Jellyfish	Evil Eye of Night (area of effect with a chance of confusing enemies)	Cavern of Waves (Toto’haha)

Captured Monster Weapon Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

There are six types of weapons and related physical attacks in Octopath Traveler 2—Sword, Axe, Dagger, Bow, Polearm, and Staff. Here is the overview of monsters and corresponding weapons or physical attack skills and locations where you can catch them arranged by the weapon type.

Captured Monster Sword Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skills	Where to Find
Marmot	Scratch (one hit)	Forest Path (Cropdale)
Ambling Bones	Scratch (one hit)	Cathedral Cellars
Hermit Conch	Scratch (one hit)	Harborlands (Canalbrine Bridge)
Marionette Skeleton	Double Claw (two sword hits on one foe)	Northern Ryu Sands
Frost Fox	Tail Spin (one hit for all enemies)	Southern Cape Cold Snows
Forest Fox	Shadow Claw (one hit + chance of blinding)	Starfall Spring, Wellgrove Trail
Scissor Crab	Double Scissor (two sword hits on one foe)	Conning Creek Coast
Undead Soldier	Double Claw (two sword hits on one foe)	Sai Sands
Frost Bear	Bear Claw (one hit for all enemies)	Ruffians’ Hideout

Captured Monster Axe Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Mountain Ape I	Attack (one axe hit for one enemy)	Pilgrims’ Way
Lloris	Rolling Slash (one axe hit for one enemy)	Path to the Tomb of the Warden Beasts (Toto’haha)
Mountain Ape II	Cleave (one axe hit for all enemies)	Eastern Flamechurch Pass
Mountain Ape III	Double Cleave (two axe hits for one enemy)	Eastern Flamechurch Pass
Majestic Snow Marmot	Somersault (one axe hit for one enemy + guaranteed evasion of one physical attack for a random ally)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Mountain Ape IV	Double Cleave (two axe hits for one enemy)	Borderfall
Majestic Marmot	Somersault (one axe hit for one enemy + guaranteed evasion of one physical attack for a random ally)	Southern Cropdale Trail
Kingfisher	Somersault (one axe hit for one enemy + guaranteed evasion of one physical attack for a random ally)	Lair of the Ursurper
Savage Shark	Shark Dive (one area of effect + speed increase for the whole team)	Sunken Maw
Twisted Lizardking II	Double Cleave (two axe hits for all enemies)	Sunken Maw

Captured Monster Dagger Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Laughing Hyena	Venomous Fang (one dagger hit on one enemy + chance of poisoning)	Wildlands (Southern Oresrush Wilds)
Wild Mole I	Attack (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Abandoned Silver Mine
Ocean Lizardman I	Attack (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Western Canalbrine Coast
Guard Dog	Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Diamante’s Estate (New Delsta)
Barnacle Tortoise	Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Canalbrine: Water Source
Barnacle Bat	Venomous Fang (one dagger hit on one enemy + chance of poisoning)	Canalbrine: Water Source
Fossilized Fish	Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Southern Cape Cold Snows
Scaled Viper	Venomous Fang (one dagger hit on one enemy + chance of poisoning)	Underground Waterway (Brightlands)
Black Bat	Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Underground Waterway (Brightlands)
Wolf	Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Winterlands
Ancient Fish	Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy)	Forest Path (Cropdate)
Ocean Lizardman II	Stab (one dagger hit on all enemies)	Western Canalbrine Coast
Manticore	Bite (one dagger hit on all enemies)	Tombs of the Wardenbeasts
Wild Mole II	Stab (one dagger hit on all enemies)	Wildlands (Crackridge Harbour Anchorage)
Schrewd Fossilized Fish	Armor Bite (one dagger hit on one enemy + chance of physical defense going down for two turns)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Sailfish	Befuddling Fang (one dagger hit on one enemy + chance of confusion)	Western Canalbrine Coast
High Wolf	Double Bite (two hits for one enemy)	Southern Cape Cold Snows
Fierce Fly	Jaws of Darkness (one hit + chance of blinding)	North Beasting Traverse
Vagrant Froggen I	Attack (one hit)	Lair of the Ursurper
Wild Mole III	Double Stab (two dagger hits)	Wildlands (Southern Oresrush Wilds)
Ocean Lizardman III	Double Stab (two dagger hits)	Canalbrine Bridge
Ivory Eel	Spiritsucker (one area of effect + SP regeneration buff for the whole team)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Vagrant Froggen II	Stab (one hit for all enemies)	Lair of the Usurper
Wild Mole IV	Double Stab (two dagger hits for one enemy)	Crackridge Wilds
Wild Mole V	Double Stab (two dagger hits for all enemies)	Crackridge Wilds
Vagrant Froggen III	Double Stab (two hits for one enemy)	Lair of the Ursurper
Vagrant Froggen IV	Double Stab (two hits for one enemy)	Lair of the Usurper
Ocean Lizardman V	Double Stab (two dagger hits for all enemies)	Conning Creek Coast
Lord of the Flies	Crunch	Cavern of Waves (Toto’haha)

Captured Monster Bow Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Island Froggen I	Attack (one hit)	Path to the Tomb of the Warden Beasts (Toto’haha)
Island Froggen II	Shot (one hit on all enemies)	North Beasting Traverse
Blue Betta	Poison Sting (one hit + chance of poisoning)	Western Canalbrine Coast (water)
Island Froggen III	Double Shot (two hits)	North Beasting Traverse
Ancient Ratkin I	Attack (one hit)	Starfall Spring
Azure Urchin	Toxic Needles (one hit for all enemies + chance of poisoning)	Lair of the Ursurper
Withered Wanderweed	Bewildering Needles (one hit for all enemies + chance of confusion)	Eastern Sai Sands
Island Froggen IV	Double Shot (two hits for one enemy)	Western Tropu’hapu Traverse
Island Froggen V	Double Shot (two hits for all enemies)	Western Tropu’hapu Traverse
Wicked Wasp	Poison Sting (one hit + chance of poisoning)	Sourthern Clockbank Highroad
Desert Ape IV	Double Shot (two hits for one enemy)	Eastern Sai Sands
Ancient Ratkin II	Shot (one hit for all enemies)	Starfall Spring
Ancient Ratkin III	Double Shot (two hits for one enemy)	Starfall Spring
Ancient Ratkin IV	Double Shot (two hits for one enemy)	Starfall Spring
Sea Scorpion	Poison Sting (one hit + chance of poisoning)	Lair of the Ursurper
Dire Ash Raven	Poison Sting (one hit + chance of poisoning)	Ruffians’ Hideout

Captured Monster Polearm Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Flying Fish	Charge (one hit)	Harborlands (Canalbrine Bridge)
Woodland Birdian I	Attack (one hit)	Forest Path (Cropdale)
Eggling	Charge (one hit)	Crackridge Harbor: Anchorage
Giant Falcon	Charge (one hit)	Eastern Flamechurch Pass
City Ratkin I	Attack (one hit)	Underground Waterway (Brightlands)
City Ratkin II	Thrust (polearm hit for all enemies)	New Delsta Flats
Rockadillo	Charge (one hit)	Eastern Flamechurch Pass
Gabbrodillo	Charge (one hit)	Crackridge Harbor: Anchorage
Woodland Birdian II	Thrust (polearm hit for all enemies)	Veil of Trees
Mad Ratkin	Dark Thrust (one hit + chance of blinding)	New Delsta Flats
City Ratkin III	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Western Clockbank Highroad
Woodland Birdian III	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Eastern Cropdale Trail
Ancient Lizardman I	Attack (one hit)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Landwalker	Charge (one hit)	Harborlands (Canalbrine Bridge)
Ancient Lizardman II	Thrust (polearm hit for all enemies)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Ancient Lizardman III	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Ruffians’ Hideout
Ancient Lizardman IV	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Ruffians’ Hideout
City Ratkin IV	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Abandoned Waterway
Great Landwalker	Charge (one hit for all enemies)	Conning Creek Coast
Woodland Birdian IV	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Wellgrove Trail
Highland Goat	Charge (one hit for all enemies)	Eastern Flamechurch Pass
Giant Sheep	Charge (one hit for all enemies)	New Delsta Flats
Buttermeep	Charge (one hit for all enemies)	Crackridge
Giant Boar	Charge (one hit for all enemies)	Eastern Cropdale Trail
Armor Eater	Charge (one hit for all enemies)	Crackridge Wilds
City Ratkin VI	Double Thrust (two hits for one enemy)	Abandoned Waterway

Captured Monster Staff Skills in Octopath Traveler 2

Monster	Skill	Where to Find
Cactus Roller	Poison Strike (one hit + chance of poisoning)	Hinoeuma (Northern Ryu Sands)
Frost Mole I	Attack (one hit)	Frigit Isle
Frost Mole II	Bash (one hit for all enemies)	Southern Cape Cold Snows
Frost Mole III	Double Bash (two hits)	Southern Cape Cold Snows
Twisted Lizardman I	Attack (one hit)	Abandoned Waterway
Twisted Lizardman II	Bash (one hit for all enemies)	Abandoned Waterway
Twisted Lizardman III	Double Bash (two hits)	Abandoned Waterway
Portley Penguin	Double Body Press (two hits + chance of confusion)	Lair of the Ursurper
Ducaduca	Ducaduca Kick (two hits + chance of lowering physical attack stats)	Cavern of Waves (Toto’haha)
Twisted Lizardking III	Area of effect + lowering physical defense	Sunken Maw

We hope this overview gives you a better picture of which monsters and skills are the best to have for Ochette in Octopath Traveler 2. Make sure to check out our other guides, including How to Change Difficulty Settings in Octopath Traveler 2 and Best Starting Characters in Octopath Traveler 2, for more assistance.