Support Skills are a recurring Category:Game Mechanics that allows travelers to equip various effects based on the level of skill mastery for each job.
Support Skills in Octopath Traveler have a variety of passive effects that include but are not limited to the following:
- Increase the traveler's attributes in battle
- Decrease chance of random encounters
- Apply permanent buffs to travelers and temporary debuffs to enemies
- Remove damage and healing limits
Support skills are unlocked automatically and independently for each traveler as the total number of skills for the corresponding jobs are learned.
Each traveler may equip up to 4 support skills at one time. Any unlocked support skills by the traveler may be used by that traveler only; support skills are not locked to active jobs and may be mixed and matched to create powerful combinations.
Job Support Skills[]
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Persistence | All status enhancements you receive will last for one additional turn. |
| 5 | 630 | Inner Strength | Increases the maximum SP of the equipped character by 50. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Evil Ward | Increases the party's success rate when attempting to flee (equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect). |
| 7 | 4,630 | Saving Grace | Grants the equipping character the ability to be healed above their maximum HP. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Evasive Maneuvers | Reduces the rate of random encounters. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 5 | 630 | Elemental Augmentation | Augments the equipping character's elemental attack strength by 50. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Percipience | Prevents the party from being surprised by foes. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 7 | 4,630 | Vim and Vigor | The equipping character will regenerate HP each turn. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Endless Items | When a character with the skill uses an item, there is a 25% chance the item will not be consumed. |
| 5 | 630 | Grows on Trees | Gain additional money after battles. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 6 | 1,630 | Hang Tough | When the user is not near death, all attacks that would reduce the user's HP below zero will instead leave the user with 1 HP. |
| 7 | 4,630 | SP Saver | Halves SP consumption for the equipping character. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Cover | The equipping character will absorb single-targeted damage for allies who are near death. |
| 5 | 630 | Summon Strength | Increases the physical attack strength of the equipping character by 50. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Endure | When the equipping character is inflicted with poison, sleep, confusion, blindness, silence, terror, or unconsciousness, their physical and elemental defenses are enhanced. |
| 7 | 4,630 | Surpassing Power | Increases the maximum damage that can be dealt by the equipping character to 99,999. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | The Show Goes On | Status augmentations you grant to allies will persist for one additional turn. |
| 5 | 630 | Eye for an Eye | Gain a 50% chance of counterattacking after being targeted by a physical attack. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Second Wind | Recover a certain amount of SP each turn. |
| 7 | 4,630 | Encore | Once per battle, upon being incapacitated, you will recover with 25% of your maximum HP. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Inspiration | With each successful standard attack, gain SP equal to 1% of the damage you deal. |
| 5 | 630 | Hale and Hearty | Increases maximum HP by 500. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Resist Ailments | Improves resistance to poison, sleep, confusion, blindness, silence, terror, and unconsciousness. |
| 7 | 4,630 | Heightened Healing | Gain an additional 30% HP or SP when being healed or restored. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Incidental Attack | When using a non-damaging skill on a foe, there is a 50% chance you will attack as well. |
| 5 | 630 | Fleetfoot | Increases the equipping character's speed by 50. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Snatch | The Equipping character will receive double the loot when using steal or collect skills. |
| 7 | 4,630 | Insult to Injury | Status ailments and attribute penalties inflicted by the equipping character will last for one additional turn. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 | Heighten Senses | Gain an increased chance of attacking first in battle. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 5 | 630 | Eagle Eye | Increases the equipping character's critical rate by 50. |
| 6 | 1,630 | Second Serving | Gives the equipping character a 50% chance of attacking twice when performing a standard attack. |
| 7 | 4,630 | Patience | The equipping character will gain a 25% chance of acting again at the end of a turn. |
Advanced Job Support Skills[]
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4,000 | Hard Worker | Gain additional JP after battles. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 5 | 6,000 | Boost-Start | Gain an additional 1 BP at the start of battle. |
| 6 | 8,000 | BP Eater | Boosted skills performed by the equipping character deal additional damage. |
| 7 | 10,000 | Divine Aura | The equipping character gains a 25% chance of nullifying any damage taken. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4,000 | Stat Swap | Elemental and physical attack strength will be swapped with one another. |
| 5 | 6,000 | SP Recovery | Upon taking damage from a foe, gain an amount of SP equal to 1% of damage taken. |
| 6 | 8,000 | Dauntless | Gain increased physical and elemental attack when suffering from a status ailment. |
| 7 | 10,000 | Elemental Edge | Gain augmented elemental attack and defense in battle. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4,000 | Extra Experience | Gain additional experience from battles. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 5 | 6,000 | Stalwart Defense | Enhances physical defense by 50. |
| 6 | 8,000 | Fortitude | Deal more damage the lower your current HP is. |
| 7 | 10,000 | Physical Prowess | Augments physical attack and defense during battle. |
| No. of Skills Unlocked | Total JP | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4,000 | Intimidation | Grants a 25% chance that foes will begin battle with reduced physical attack and elemental defense*. (Equipping this skill with multiple characters will have no added effect.) |
| 5 | 6,000 | Stronger Strikes | Increases damage dealt when striking a foe's weak point. |
| 6 | 8,000 | Elemental Aid | Elemental attacks consume double SP, but also deal additional damage. |
| 7 | 10,000 | Augmented Elements | Increases damage dealt by elemental attacks. |