Solo Ochette Route v1.0

These are notes for an Ochette solo speedrun in Octopath Traveler II.

(Sample vids are on my YT channel as always; Pastebin is blocking the links for some reason. Just search "AnimeFanX11" and scroll vids for the non-mic or commentated versions.)

This route uses Beast Lore and Befriend more than other routes to try to save resources and be more efficient in fights. It also skips most towns and areas (like Timberain and Sai) to try to save time, but there's parts of exploration that become more dangerous as a result.

However, I did try to make it reasonably consistent with an "answer" for every encounter. (For example, there's 3 extra M stones routed for specific bad encounters - you may end up not seeing those encounters and thus not use any of those stones.)

Some fun facts about the route:
- captures Crackridge moles for Quality Jerky to befriend the Clan Mei NPC in Stormhail (Bright Bolt user)
- Tera is limited to 1 action in his fight to reduce chances for him to use Sneeze, which is an instant loss in solos
- visits decaying temple (aka the solo temple) for money, using a Bottle of Sleeping Dust to get through it
- buys Quick Cloak for defense/crit reduction (Lv22 merchant Ochette will have 191 speed, matching Lajackal's 191 crit, meaning exactly 0% chance to be crit)

(Btw, at the end of these notes are extra tips for running this, money skip notes, and cait/puff differences for anyone interested.)

Also, thanks to:
- Dalia for his work on the first solos of this, which I took some ideas from
- Z3R01337 for his single story notes, which I also took parts from
- Doid for answering my questions, especially for calculating the odds in some battles

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Timer starts when confirming Ochette start
Befriend Malamaowl (Mahina)
King Iguana: Defend, Precise Shot, Precise Shot x4, Capture
Provoke Villager: Iguana, Iguana, Iguana x3
Disable auto capture and prepare King Iguana
Press A to talk and give 1 Jerky to story NPC
Go to shop
- buy and equip Traveler's Bow

Break/flee encounters (froggen axe, lloris and weed precise x2)
Befriend Lost Girl
Forced battle (Mysterious Fledgling): Bow x2

Dark entity tips (script is taken from Z3R01337 btw, credit to him):
- cursor resets after he summons/eats a spawn (go Up first time, random next time depending on what's eaten)
- goal is two precise shots (x3/x4) early before he summons, dont want to overdamage, and want to count crit damage
- axe normally hits for 35 but crits for 45 (so +10)
- precise hits are 105 but crits for 130 (so +25)
- thunderbirds are 50 ish (so +15 over axe, but it's enough damage to unlock Latent in time)
[small adds deal 14 each, big boss deals 45 normal, 86 dark breath, he uses it every few turns for ~3 times total in battle]

Dark Entity

T1-4: axe
T5: precise x3
T6: grape

if damage is +35, want to avoid over-damaging, so do normal T7-T8 if Ochette outspeeds on T8
OR for T7-T9, do Defend, Axe x4, Precise x3

T7: axe [if he summons here, you either miscounted or got unlucky crit on the axe attack just now]
T8: axe x3
T9: precise x4

if you did Precise x3, you are short damage, so replace next two T10-11 axes with Thunderbirds.

T10: axe (or Thunderbird)
T11: axe (or Thunderbird)

T12: Healing Grape (can delay or switch around too depending on your HP)
T13: axe
T14: axe (or axe x2 if 105 extra damage)
T15: LATENT Beastly Claw x4 (crit auto wins, else next turn finishes)
T16: Precise Shot x3

Go straight up to Al's bag cutscene, then to harbor
TP Totohaha
Get 1800 in right head villager room
TP harbor
Boat to Delsta Harbor (first option)

Break/flee encounters:
Axe - rats, most Canalbrine enemies (Icewind for them too)
Bow - birds, moles (Precise Shot for groups but it can miss FYI so avoid if possible or use extra shots)
Latent Claw - AoE nuke

Walk after first battle in Delsta flats to skip second
Get Herb of Serenity
Tag Abandoned Village, exit
Rotate Day/Night for Soulstone shop
Sell:
- Herb of Serenity
Buy:
- 3 Shadow M

Eastern Cape Cold Snows, walk after first battle to skip second
Go to Scholar Shrine area
First battle, use Shad M
Enter Scholar Shrine, exit
Second battle, use Shad M
(can opt to skip Scholar Shrine reset btw, but bear encounter survives shad M, can finish with Bows/Precise/Capture though)
Get Scholar
Menu:
- Ochette to Scholar
- Lightning Bolt + Analyze
- Evasive Maneuvers on

TP Totohaha harbor
Boat to Canalbrine (second option)
Buy
- 1 Critical Earring
Exit toward Conning

First Conning Screen, go to NIGHT just past save point as you reach water
Scorpions battle, use Shad M
After battle, walk rightward to get Wind M
Run rest of map
Go to night in next area
Scorpions again, use Wind M

Tag Conning, start Ochette Chapter 2C, exit
Walk to skip battle
Go to Sai area battle, walk to get Fire M
Go to night to KO Sai desert battle with Fire M

Go to Decaying Temple
Get Bottle of Sleeping Dust
Run behind bottle chest to get encounter:
T1: Bottle of Sleeping Dust (65%)
T2: Flee
Walk to get Sniper Bow + 20k + Fire Dragon Glaive (can run a bit)

TP Abandoned Village, exit
Rotate Day/Night for Armor/Accessory/Soulstone shops in any order
Buy and equip:
- Horned Helm
Sell:
- Fire Dragon's Glaive
- Sniper's Bow
Buy and equip:
- 2 Empowering Rings
Buy:
- 1 Fire S
- 1 Ice S
- 1 Thunder S
- 6 Light M
- 1 Thunder M
- 2 Ice M
- 2 Fire M
NOTE: ALL Stones are for routed battles, so do NOT throw any spares at a stray Cait unless it is a fight in the route. Armor Eater/Latent/Catapult can be used to finish off stragglers to preserve stones.

Heal with Grape
Go to Abandoned Waterway
Get Wriggling Root
Go night to force Lizards battle, use Ice M
Get 8k

TP Delsta Harbor, run to tag New Delsta (walk a bit outside to skip encounter)
- Buy 1 Unerring Earring
- SELL WRIGGLING ROOT

TP Conning Creek
Go to Apothecary guild
Talk to right side of table to unlock job

Go to beach
Get Rainbow Bottle
Go straight right
Provoke Alpione: Light M
Go to dungeon
KO battle with Fire M
Get 6k
Finish chapter

TP Delsta Harbor
Go to Inventor
Turn in two inventions

TP Delsta Harbor
Boat to Crackridge Harbor (first option)
Job and Support Skill menus:
- Ochette to Apothecary
- Step Ahead on (in fourth slot)
Flee battle and go to Southern Crackridge
Heal as needed

Armor Eater + 2 Moles:
T1: Light M
T2: Latent Fang x2
T3: Capture
Skip chest for now
Go to Western Crackridge
Armor Eater + 2 Moles:
T1: Light M
T2: summon armor eater x3 (if enemy used Defend/Rock of the Heavens, can Defend into x4 or do x3 and hope it crits)
Tag Crackridge
Start Ochette 2T, exit

Safety Save
Armor + 2 Moles: Light M, armor eater x3 (if enemy used Defend/Rock of Heaven, do defend and x4)
Get 8500
Get Merchant (and walk a bit leaving screen)

Job Menu:
- Ochette to Merchant
- Collect + Sidestep + Hired Help
Support Skills:
- Grows on Trees (in second slot)
- Boost Start (in third slot)

Go to Gravel area, WALK the whole map
Get Thunder L
Rotate night just before bridge (in next battle, if first T2 and Latent, can Roar -> HHG x4 to skip 8k elsewhere)
2 Dreadwing + 1 Creepy Fledgling
T1: HHB x3
Get Starsplitter

Tag Gravell
Exit, get 23.5k
TP Gravell
Item shop, buy:
- 11 Grape M
Armor shop, buy:
- Quick Cloak (don't equip)
Get Quartz Shield

Job Menu:
- Ochette to Inventor
Equipment Menu:
- Optimize

BEAST MENU:
- AUTO CAPTURE BACK ON
[goal is to capture 3+ Wild Moles, 1 Armor Eater, 1 Buttermeep, then turn it off. The auto capture is for Caught by Surprises.]

TP Crackridge, exit
Go to NIGHT
Armor Eater + 2 Moles:
T1: (Tab to Sword) Catapult Sword x3
T2: Capture Armor Eater
T3: Capture Mole (next in turn order)
T4: Capture Mole
[if caught by surprise in any of these maps, can't afford to capture Meep/etc, so LATENT Claws x3 to nuke them and try again]

Go back to Southern Crackridge
NIGHT for battle as you run toward right chest
Armor Eater + 2 Moles: repeat as before but prepare + cook last mole if slots are filled (from here on, keep cooking last captured monster)

[goal is 1 Mole for battles and then later cook them for 3 Quality Jerky in Stormhail; if you capture a lot and are asked to cook something, keep cooking the last thing you captured so that mole stays at the bottom of your monster list if possible]

Get Shadow M
After first battle and chest, menu:
- EVASIVE MANUEVERS OFF

Get 6400
Safety Save
HEAL AFTER BATTLES

Meep Battles:

- 1 Armor Eater, 1 Hatchling, 1 Buttermeep:
T1: (Tab to Catapult Axe) (Tab to Sword) Catapult Axe x3
T2: Capture Buttermeep
T3: Capture Armor Eater

- 2 Birds, 2 Buttermeep:
T1: (Tab to Catapult Spear) (Tab to Sword) Catapult Spear x3
T2: Capture Buttermeep
T3: Capture Buttermeep

- 3 Buttermeeps: (only possible in daytime, but you could get it if you accidentally stay on day too long)
T1: Sword x2
T2: Capture broken meep
T3: Defend
T4: (Tab to Sword) Catapult Sword x4

Any other battle:
T1: Defend
T2: (Tab to Sword) Catapult Sword x4 (or x3 works for double moles)

Any battle caught by surprise:
T1: LATENT Beastly Claws x3 (very hard to survive HP-wise while capturing Meep from surprise, so hope for auto capture proc)
or if Meep group:
T1: Shad M (makes Armor Eater defensive and others become 100% captures)
T2+: Sword x4 Armor Eater/Capture Meep

Critical HP meeps do 400 each so very dangerous, better to nuke with latent if surprised or stall with grape M until you can nuke.
Also if enemy group defense buffs, need to stall it out with spring boots/grape M then nuke.

after meep, menu:
- AUTO CAPTURE OFF
- cook and prepare Buttermeep
- Evasive Manuevers ON
Heal
[if 630 JP+, may do Apothecary + 3 skills early for Hale and Hearty over Grows on Trees. Go back to Inventor + Starsplitter and heal again for safety]

Provoke Overseer
T1: Shadow M (or spam Armor Eater to break if you used up the M stone)
T2: Armor Eater x4 (crit auto wins else need follow-up)
T3: Armor Eater

Enter Unfinished Tunnels, exit and reenter for autosave
Get 2100
Get Rev Jam
Get 13.5k

Unfinished Tunnels battle (2 Ancient Birdian III and 1 Ancient Birdian IV):
T1: Defend
T2: Latent Beastly Claws x4 (recommended if latent is available)
or if no latent:
T1: Thunder M
T2: Armor Eater x4
if caught by surprise/desperate, can do:
T1: Thunder L - during Provoke later at Montwise, break two extra times and use 2 Thunder M + Armor Eater on the breaks. If you preserve the Light M in Tera's dungeon or the Ice M in Northern Montwise Pass, those can substitute the Thunder M in Southern Stormhail Snows, but if you use up both, you can get the Shadow M by full walking the North Montwise Pass. This Thunder L can also be used in Tera's dungeon later similarly if caught by surprise by spiders/condors as you preserve the Light M in that case.

TP Crackridge, go to night
Go to inn for cutscene + use it for Latent if needed
Go to night to befriend Pom

GO TO DAY

Enter Path to Bed of the Titan
KO random battle:

if King Condors or Shaggy Spider in group:
T1: spring boots
T2: (max boost) (Catapult to Staff) (Primary to Sword) Catapult Staff x4
T3: Light M
- if you go first T2, swap and do stone first, otherwise, we do this order to minimize sleep/terror chances

else all others (bat, hatchling, moles):
T1: Defend
T2: (Tab to Sword) Catapult Sword x4

Get Knight's Greatbow (left of Save Point)
Menu after getting second chest:
- Ochette to MERCHANT
- Heal HP, want 1100+ HP to be safe from Trample (~1074 damage, we have too much speed so he cannot crit us either)

MAKE SURE OCHETTE IS MERCHANT BEFORE GOING DOWN LADDER (Tera):
T1: Wild Mole
T2: Defend (or mole again)
T3: HHB x4 (or HHG x4)
T4: Latent Roar
T5: Defend
T6: HHV x4
T7: Capture
- if you already go first on T3, swap T2 Defend to another Mole, and use HHG x4. Then skip the clockbank money.
- an alternative to the T2 Mole is to just T2 Axe to save some frames, but it's probably a range
- retry if he uses Sneeze

Finish Chapter 2T
TP New Delsta
Random battles: Defend, Tera

Go via land straight right to next map
Then go up and right into water to Clockbank area
Get 6300
Walk the entire outside Flameschurch map to skip encounter
Go to Borderfall
Get Thunder M
In Western Montwise Pass, go mid left to get Gelid Helm

Job Menu before Provoke:
- Ochette to Apothecary + 3 skills
- Ochette to Merchant
Support Skills:
- Hale and Hearty (over Grows on Trees)
Item menu:
- Grape M

Provoke Guard (be wary of Twin Serpents, does 530 twice so 1060 ish and often does around T4 or so):
T1: Wild Mole
T2: Wild Mole
T3: Tera
T4: Wild Mole/Grape M
T5: Wild Mole
T6: Thunder L
- if you used Thunder L earlier, replace it with Thunder M, then do unbroken Armor Eater x4, and then break and finish off with another M stone (Thunder M or Light M depending on which encounter you used Thunder L on
- optionally heal, want above 1100+ HP for Twin Serpents ~1074 dmg
- 45% lychee drop, use asap with heal menu

Heal if no level-up
In tunnel, stay on DAY and KO battle

Battles other than apes: Defend, Tera

Ape Battles
T1: Ice M
T2: Tera
T3: Capture (if needed)
if surprised, can try grape m to recover and win with Tera

Flex option for HH Guards - if you are caught by surprise, you can KO with HHG x3 and get the ice bow (7.2k) in the back left of Glacis' mountain later by walking the whole map.

WALK THE REMAINDER OF THE MAP
Get Large Silver Ore (bottom of ladder, can run on ladder)
Exit to Stormhail area (run almost all of it)

After Stormhail battle in DAY, run to get 15k
Southern Stormhail battles, during day:
- 2 moleking: Tera
- 1 moleking, 2 small moles: Tera
- 4 bats: Tera
- plains drake/reptalios group: Thunder M, Tera
(Basically, if you see Plains Drake/Reptalios, do Thunder M. Can also HHM x4 to flee just Reptalios.)

Run to bottom of stairs, then walk to Sanctum Knight NPC
Provoke + Flee

Run to get Raging Beast on bottom-right
Run to Junior Assistant NPC
Provoke + Flee
Run to tag Stormhail

Tag Stormhail
Start Ochette Ch 2S
If you do not have latent, use the inn

Go to bridge and provoke guard:
T1: Armor Eater
T2: Tera
- NPC has a drop 50% spare Fire M drop for anywhere

HEAL AND SAVE ASAP - sets you back pre-provoke if you wipe

Walk to get Reinforcing Jam
Walk past next chest into left cutscene

Run back to chest to get Ice Amulet
Run to get Ice L
Run through ladders, until last ladder before bridge
After you get off ladder, WALK the remainder

KO 1 battle

Sacred Peak Altahe battles:
- 2 mushroom: Tera
- 4 bats: Tera
- 2 bats + 1 frostwing: Tera
- wanderweed/reptalios groups: Fire M, Tera
(Basically, if you see reptalios or wanderweed, do Fire M)

Go to Save Point
Item Menu:
- Ice Amulet on (over any ring)
- Gelid Helm on (over Horned Helm)
- Grape M
Save

Glacis: 54k, 8 shields (spear/dagger/bow/fire)

This fight is flexible. If you're damaged, and he goes back to back, use Grape M. Else keep using Wild Moles (three total) to bring him down to 2 shields. Then Latent roar to bring him to 1 shield and use HHB x4 HHB x3 to capture. Stall with Grape M to build latent if necessary too.

He has three attacks that do about 320, 615, and 960 on high rolls but doesn't do the strong one back to back, so aim to stay above about 1580 HP to be safe. Example script below.

T1: Wild Mole
T2: Wild Mole
T3: Grape M
T4: Wild Mole/Grape M
T5: Grape M
T6: Latent Roar
T7: HHB x4
T8: HHB x3
T9: Capture
T10: Watch EXP to see if you will level up in the next two shadow fights (300 exp then 510 exp)

Finish Ochette 2G
TP back to Stormhail
Prepare 3 Wild Moles for 3 Quality Meats
Befriend right Clan Mei Soldier NPC (Bright Bolt user)
Get Knight's Armor on left

Equipment menu:
- Empowering Ring on (over Ice Amulet)
- Horned Helm on (over Gelid)
(no need to heal, we'll inn soon)

Sell at item shop for at least 77k:
- Large Silver Ore
- Guardian's Ice blade
- Starsplitter
- Guardian's Great Axe
- Knight's Greatbow
- Raging Beast
- Gelid Helm
- Knight's Armor
- Ice Amulet
- etc
Backup money strats: unequip and sell 1400 Traveler's Bow, 1200 chest in Throne 1 dungeon, and/or 2500 Herb of Serenity far outside Canalbrine (KO encounter w/ Tera)

TP Totohaha, start Ochette Chapter 3
Use inn for latent + heal

If you didn't check in the Glacis battle, check your Status screen to see the EXP to level up.

Battles:
First: Light M, Glacis (or Grape M if there's a free turn and you know you will not level off the next battle)
Second: Defend, HHG x4 (7% range missing ~100 dmg, finish with Armor Eater ~180 or M stone if needed)
Third: Latent Roar, Glacis
- first battle gives 300 exp, second battle gives 510 exp
- watch EXP in first battle and if you won't level up after second, optionally heal/Grape M if you get the range in the second or if there's a free turn in the first

Heal HP
Walk whole map
Save
Get Pom L

In next map, run and save again
Get Rev Jam
Battle on the way: Ice L, Glacis
Go back down and save
Don't heal as boss auto heals you prefight.

Darkling - 96k, 7 shields (Spear/Dagger/Fire/Thunder/Light once it has changed forms)

T1: Cataracta x4 (mandatory)
T2: Pom L
T3: Sidestep x4
T4: Grape M/Sidestep x3

If Ochette was attacked and the boss changed forms with Ochette doing her dialogue, you should Grape M. If the dialogue/form change hasn't happened yet, you should do Sidestep x3. The Grape M reduces the chance Night Howl will KO you. If Grape M, do Sidestep x4, and continue from T5 of the script.

T5: Rev Jam
T6: Sidestep x4
T7: Summon NPC
T8: Sidestep x4
T9: Reinforcing Jam (or adjust)

Adjust from here depending on what the NPC does, and continue to use BP items and Sidestep x4, Sidestep x3, Re-summon, etc. The NPC will always break 1, 2, or 3 shields, so be ready with BP if the boss might be broken. Once broken, do:

broken HH Vets x4

Then repeat the process (BP item, Sidestep x4, Summon, etc) and do two more:

broken HH Vets x4
broken HHB x4 (with defense down from Latent Roar or HH Ruffians x2 if you mistimed your Latent)

Note that the third one requires Ochette roaring (Beastly Howl) on the breaking turn or turn before. Ex, if the boss is at 2 shields, you can Latent Roar to bring him to 1 shield, then the NPC will break (or you do Mole on the turn after), and you can do HHB x4. The above three HHs can be used in any order as well.

If HP is getting low, use your second Rev Jam as your BP item (it'll usually be the last BP item you use). If you run out of BP items, just use Sidestep x1 as the NPC chips the shields. You can also use Spear or Wild Mole to do 1-2 shield breaks to help speed up the battle.

Time is on the first frame of the FIN screen. GG!

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Cait/Puff differences:
- if early Cait/Puff before Black Market, try boosted Latent Fang
- if early Cait/Puff after Black Market, can use Shad M/Wind M. Then try to walk and Provoke + Flee one of the Conning NPCs, optionally saving along the way.
- alternatively, just ignore the Cait/Puff, as they don't actually help a ton in this route

Money skips (cait 3k/cultured 10k/chubby 50k and puff 1.5k/queen 3k/king 25k):
I recommend just skipping the next comparable money item(s) to make it easier to remember. Can also use more HHG if a lot of money. Examples:
- Clockbank 6300
- Large Silver Ore 6400 (can run whole tunnels)
- Raging Beast 7000 (running from Sanctum Knight provoke lets you reach town)
- Knight Armor 3040 (go to right shop instead)
Note that every extra chapter 2 battle for the Meep gives about 750 leaves as well.

General tips:
- if you can afford early Hale and Hearty, that means you took extra encounters, so you'll have extra money and don't need Grows on Trees either
- a few NPC/battles have chances to drop useful M stones as spares anywhere
- try to preserve 1 Jerky for an inn at the final chapter, can use Grape M/Apothecary/food for healing. (If Grape M run low, it means you probably took extra encounters for Meep and caught at least some extra food.)
- this guide says to walk on some maps, but always run on ladders as step counter isn't affected
- some battles are better done at night, but always go to day afterward
- if there's an action you need at the end of a battle like watching for exp or a drop, I may list that as an extra turn to emphasize it
- we need 3 Quality Jerky in this run, so track the monsters you capture. Wild Moles in Crackridge give them when cooked, and we need 3 by Stormhail. (4 Mole captures are routed, but only 3 are mandatory in case you're caught by surprise and cannot capture them all. Having a 4th does sometimes help for the final boss but isn't necessary.)
- you can also do the final boss with only 1 Vets but 2 Beastlings for 60k instead of 75k, thus saving 15k, but it's a range (that said, it's a very favorable range though, and you can finish NPC or monster summons/stones if needed). The issue is you need to get off Latent Roar twice before the beastlings, and it's a harder fight BP wise and timing wise, as you cannot predict your NPC. This is an option if you'd like to practice and do that fight though. (In fact, it's possible to do the battle with just 45k and three Beastlings, as long as you get some bonus damage from L stones or Glacis/Tera, but it is much harder to do resource wise and is very inconsistent without more BP items, which are slow to grab, making it not worthwhile IMO.) To do the 1V2B fight, you'll want to spend more time at 3-5 BP, so using singular Sidestep x1 or Wild Mole x1 or Latent Roar x1 and rely on the Clan Mei NPC cooperating.

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Personal route notes:
- if good turn order on Tera, test swapping HHG x4 to HHG x2 and try to KO with Vets x4 on break.
- better ordering of monster captures in the menu, maybe leaving auto capture off and hope for no Caught by Surprise
- test armor eater animation vs small randoms vs tera animation. If no Defend for x4, may be faster?
- T4 on Darkling, summon NPC instead, to have chance they tank an attack and protect to decrease chance of being knocked out at 1 HP against Darkling's Night Howl. Maybe retest other NPC or HHV/HHB usages to fight more efficiently
- skip ch3 rev jam and the enc, maybe replace with gravell pom L/beastfood or just fight more efficiently