Every social gathering member has a “finest Archetype” in Metaphor: ReFantazio, though the sport clearly desires you to experiment with your personal combos. Nevertheless, a system known as Royal Archetypes opens up late within the story, they usually all however requires you to have spent your complete sport pushing every character in a selected path if you wish to unlock them in time to beat the ultimate boss.
The excellent news is that these Royal Archetypes are extraordinarily highly effective, and properly well worth the effort it takes to unlock them.
Beneath, we’ll break down the very best Archetypes for every social gathering member in Metaphor: ReFantazio (together with the protagonist). There are a great deal of spoilers for all job households, Royal Archetype job titles, and late-game social gathering members beneath, so scroll at your peril.
Finest Archetypes for the protagonist

In contrast to the opposite heroes that may journey alongside you in Metaphor: ReFantazio, the hero will unlock his Royal Archetype — Prince — through the story. This can then unlock the flexibility to check Royal Archetypes for the remainder of your social gathering members as properly, though they’ll should earn it.
As a result of you’ll simply naturally unlock the Royal Prince Archetype, you’re free to check no matter you need via a lot of the sport. Nonetheless, we discovered quite a lot of success pushing our protagonist into extra magical and therapeutic routes, since you possibly can’t take away him from the social gathering and people sorts of Archetypes are at all times helpful.
Think about these 5 Archetype households for the Protagonist as you make your manner via the sport:
- Seeker
- Healer
- Mage
- Service provider
- Gunner
Finest Archetypes for Strohl

Strohl begins because the Warrior, and has fairly excessive power. Due to this, he’s ideally suited for bodily damage-heavy Archetypes like Brawler. Nevertheless, Strohl’s ideally suited position limits him a bit, as there are some enemies that require a bit greater than a pointy blade. Service provider is an efficient addition to his equipment to assist improve his luck and get him the all-important Gold Assault, however Commander is basically the place Strohl shines exterior of his Warrior residence, as he’ll study tons of assist expertise that may make him invaluable in some endgame battles.
When considering forward to his Royal Archetype, you need to concentrate on Warrior and Commander, because the Royal Warrior job requires Samurai 20, Warlord 20, and 30,000 MAG to unlock.
Think about these 4 Archetype households for Strohl as you make your manner via the sport:
- Warrior
- Commander
- Service provider
- Brawler
Finest Archetypes for Hulkenberg

Hulkenberg is a little bit of an odd social gathering member in Metaphor, as with the intention to make her the very best tank she might be, you additionally want to speculate closely into magic. In an effort to unlock the Magic Knight — and subsequently the remainder of the Knight line — you have to train Hulkenberg the Mage Archetype. That theme of tank and magic consumer — normally reverse concepts in video games like this — will observe Hulkenberg all the way in which to her Royal Knight Archetype on the finish of the sport.
Royal Knight requires Paladin 20, Darkish Knight 15, Elemental Grasp 15, and 30,000 MAG. If you wish to ultimately have her examine to be a Royal Knight, ensure to have her on a Knight or Mage path mainly always, as she has a ton of job XP to chew via earlier than the sport is over, contemplating there are 4 jobs in every of these households.
Think about these 4 Archetype households for Hulkenberg as you make your manner via the sport:
- Knight
- Mage
- Commander
- Healer
Finest Archetypes for Heismay

Heismay is an actual go-getter in the case of doing jobs. Actually, you’ll have to put money into extra jobs to get Heismay’s Royal Archetype than any of the opposite social gathering members. So except you need to spend all your endgame XP fruits on Heismay, you’ll should be very disciplined to get him the place he must go for the Royal Thief.
Royal Thief requires Ninja 20, Dragoon 15, Tycoon 15, and 30,000 MAG. What makes that difficult is that you simply’ll have to grasp at the least one Archetype within the Seeker, Knight, and Commander tree to get to the high-level jobs within the Thief, Gunner, and Service provider bushes. Whilst you can fairly simply tackle some aspect Archetypes to seize key expertise with different characters, attempt to keep away from doing that with Heismay particularly, as he wants a ton of Archetype XP to achieve his objective.
Stick to those six Archetype households for Heismay as you make your manner via the sport:
- Thief
- Gunner
- Service provider
- Seeker
- Knight
- Commander
Finest Archetypes for Junah

Being the primary of the three remaining social gathering members, Junah’s job stress is a little more relaxed. You’ll begin along with her superior Masked Dancer job, and received’t want the identical conditions to unlock it that different characters will. So ideally you possibly can simply stick her within the Faker and Masked Dancer tree for the remainder of the sport.
Royal Masked Dancer requires Persona Grasp 20, Trickster 20, and 30,000 MAG. Which means your solely obstacles to Junah’s final Archetype is your Follower bond degree with Junah herself and Alonzo. Be sure you prioritize these early so Junah doesn’t get blocked from her extra superior jobs for too lengthy. If you end up with XP to spare on Junah, take into account pushing additional into her magical expertise with Mage or her rogue expertise with Ninja.
Think about these 4 Archetype households for Junah as you make your manner via the sport:
- Masked Dancer
- Faker
- Mage
- Thief
Finest Archetypes for Eupha

Eupha is the penultimate social gathering member you’ll unlock in Metaphor, and actually solely requires you to degree two bushes: Royal Summoner requires Satan Summoner 20, Soul Hacker 20, and 30,000 MAG. This implies you simply have to work on Eupha’s personal extraordinarily highly effective Summoner job and the beginning job, Seeker.
The one actual barrier you must getting Eupha’s final Archetype is her Follower bond degree. What’s difficult about that, nevertheless, is how late within the sport you get Eupha. When you choose her up, you received’t have a ton of free time till the sport’s remaining stretch, so that you’ll doubtless be caught along with her at a low Follower degree for hours of story content material. Attempt to get her Follower bond up as rapidly as potential when you get these treasured moments of endgame freetime.
Think about these 4 Archetype households for Eupha as you make your manner via the sport:
Finest Archetypes for Basilio

Being the final social gathering member you unlock, Basilio solely requires you to grasp 5 Archetype jobs with the intention to attain his remaining kind. However that’s truly one job greater than his different two endgame companions, Eupha and Junah. Royal Berserker requires Destroyer 20, Martial Artist 20, and 30,000 MAG, which is a little bit of an issue in the case of simply uncooked XP required vs the quantity of stuff you’ll have to do within the remaining few weeks of the sport.
There are many endgame dungeons to tug Basilio via earlier than the ultimate boss struggle so you possibly can unlock Royal Berserker, however you’ll additionally have to max out his Follower bond (which is the final bond you’ll make) and Catherina’s bond, who isn’t obtainable to go to often till practically the top of the sport. To get Basilio the place you need to go, be sure you prioritize spending time with him and Catherina, and avoid wasting XP fruits to spice up him via a number of of his jobs.
Think about these 4 Archetype households for Basilio as you make your manner via the sport:
- Berserker
- Brawler
- Knight
- Warrior
Subsequent, see how one can unlock all Archetypes and Followers, how one can improve Eloquence, and how one can see all endings.