Unleashing Hikari's Potential: A Guide to the Best Skills in Octopath Traveler II
Hikari is a formidable fighter in Octopath Traveler II, naturally suited to be a tanky, physical brawler. To fully realize his potential, you need to acquire a wealth of Learned Skills by challenging NPCs to duels using his Path Action during the daytime. Defeating them unlocks abilities associated with those NPCs. This guide highlights the best Learned Skills and their locations, enabling you to prioritize learning them. Remember, Hikari can only equip a maximum of five Learned Skills at a time, so choose wisely.
Essential Skills for Hikari
Here's a breakdown of some of the top skills Hikari can learn, categorized for clarity:
Offensive Powerhouses
- Limb From Limb: This is easily one of the strongest abilities Hikari can learn. Found in Stormhail, it hits four times and can easily break the damage limit later in the game.
- Mythical Bore: Located in the Nameless Village, this is a last-resort move that consumes all your SP to execute a massive attack. It can easily hit for 99,999 damage with limit break.
- Last Gasp: Found in Montwise, this ability does more damage the lower your health is, potentially saving you in an emergency.
- Divine Dual Edge: An AOE sword attack that hits all enemies twice, making it phenomenal for farming. It is obtained from the boss of Hikari's third chapter. It is crucial to keep this skill, as only a single enemy in the game can give you this skill.
- Twin Serpents: A fantastic AOE spear skill that hits all enemies twice, great for breaking. You can find it early in the Beastling Village and later in Hikari's 5th chapter. Consider this ability since the combined abilities are great for quickly clearing enemies. With the Apothecary HP/SP restore passive, you can easily farm nonstop with these alone.
- Frenzied Fire: This ability, found in Timberain, does AOE bow damage 4-8 times, but can miss (it will rarely hit 8 times without insane accuracy). Still, it is a good breaking ability.
- Fatal Fang: Similar to Frenzied Fire, but with dagger hits instead of bow. It's found in Clockbank and also hits four to eight times.
- Aggressive Thrust: Similar to the previous two, but with a spear. It's found in Canalbrine.
Utility and Support
- Deep Analysis: Similar to the Scholar's Analyze ability, but it reveals three weaknesses at once without charging up. You can get it in Flamechurch.
- Shield Thief: This ability, found in Winterbloom, works similarly to Temenos' Latent Power, reducing an enemy's shield regardless of weakness.
- Defiant Stance: Located in Oresrush, this skill buffs attack and defense nicely.
- Compound Formulae: Hits fire, light, and dark weaknesses all at once on all enemies, but is only really useful if you build Hikari as a magic user (although it can get some quick breaks here and there). It's found in Montwise.
- Resting: Similar to the Merchant's Rest ability, it recovers HP and SP. Obtainable fairly early on in the Beastling village.
- Deep Sleep: Great for healing, recovering 50% of your HP and SP, but puts you to sleep for 4 turns. However, equipping a Wakeful Stone accessory negates the negative, if you're ok with sacrificing a slot to that. The ability is found in the Nameless Village.
- Divine Protection: A truly broken ability found in Canalbrine that costs 100 SP and makes you immune to any hit. It can be boosted to protect you for four times, making it incredibly powerful in many fights.
Farming and Grinding
- Merciless Blade: Primarily because it cannot miss, and is excellent for farming Cait and Octopuff enemies. This can be found in Tropu'hopu.
Skill Acquisition Locations
- Beastling Village: Twin Serpents, Resting
- Hikari's 3rd Chapter (Boss): Divine Dual Edge
- Stormhail: Limb From Limb
- Flamechurch: Deep Analysis
- Oresrush: Defiant Stance
- Montwise: Last Gasp, Compound Formulae
- Nameless Village: Mythical Bore, Deep Sleep
- Canalbrine: Divine Protection, Aggressive Thrust
- Winterbloom: Shield Thief
- Timberain: Frenzied Fire
- Clockbank: Fatal Fang
- Tropu'hopu: Merciless Blade
Strategic Skill Selection
When choosing Hikari's Learned Skills, consider your play style and the challenges you face.
- For pure damage output, prioritize Limb From Limb, Mythical Bore, and Last Gasp.
- For breaking enemies, Twin Serpents, Frenzied Fire, Fatal Fang and Aggressive Thrust are excellent choices.
- For survivability, Divine Protection and Deep Sleep are invaluable.
- Deep Analysis and Shield Thief provide tactical advantages by revealing weaknesses and stripping shields.
- When farming experience, Merciless Blade is a must-have for taking down elusive Cait and Octopuff enemies.
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