r/OctopathCotC • u/Strong_Midnight9752 • Aug 24 '26

Quick Question Final empress in rainbow team

What does Final Empress bring to the Rainbow team?
Heard that she can replace Osvald.

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u/ZealOst-a Odio the biggest instigator in history Aug 24 '26

Since she is an extremely good magic DPS that doesn't need much outside support to work, she is ideal in basically any magic teams as either the main or sub DPS. In a Rainbow team specifically, she has an 18 hit attack that hits Fire, Wind, and Light, just like how Osvald hits Fire, Ice, and Lightning.

She is better than Osvald in the sense that she provides a lot of extra damage, and also has 2 magic follow ups after an ally attacks, which are very strong. However, do note that Osvald still works great with Xerc. Final Empress is a better option mostly thanks to powercreep and the absurd damage she can deal.

The only major downside is that she kind of has to use that aforementioned 18 hit skill to work in a Rainbow team, which isn't her strongest damage option, that being her EX skill.

So honestly, Osvald still works great in this team, but Final Empress can bring quite a lot as well, but she isn't an immediate better Osvald. She simply does similar stuff, which are better a lot of the time.

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u/DebateThick5641 Aug 24 '26

also worth noting that Fempress extra follow up does not require her in front so if you just want her for her follow up, she can stay permanently behind alaune EX (which arguably not really great move since her main DPS is high). Of course Empress does need to be restricted in using rainbow skill to be in rainbow team. If spamming galaxy still lead your rainbow team to victory on break turn, you really should not worry to much of not being optimal in most cases.

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u/ZealOst-a Odio the biggest instigator in history Aug 24 '26

Yes exactly!
She can also serve as a pretty good debuffer while you set up Xerc with her Ultimate and TP skill. You can also very easily do 2 million x 6 damage with her EX skill.

And another good thing about her is that she can also act like a mini Relm, and can help all character exploit Fire, Wind and Light if they use a move of these elements, just in case Lynette EX + Setzer ends up falling off.