Best party member combinations?

[Daddy Gibby]

I'm writing a guide for the best combinations of party members, would like to get some opinions on the best combos from the community.

[Okami42]

Terry and Birdie are a classic combo

[Daddy Gibby]

Originally posted by Power:

Terry and Birdie are a classic combo

Definitely, they were the first ones I added to my list. Do you know of any others?

[Okami42]

I kinda only played random members that I liked so unfortunately not no :/

[yeastmachine48]

Nern and Carp are great, Nern can replenish SP and HP when needed be, can inflict Pissed to enemies to lock them from using fatal moves, can deal solid physical damage when given the right weapon, and deals very good damage with his Finger Beam, his ST.ATK stat naturally accumulates quickly. Carp, once he learns Wrist and Ankle Slash, can slow down tough opponents to a crawl. His River Fever moves are great, even better if he's equipped with the Rusty Knife to randomly inflict Poison and Bleed.
I usually have another TP user along with these two, usually Olan because he's naturally a good TP user (his Hide, Rapid Bow, and Mega Rapid Bow moves are very good all around). can deal loads of damage if given the right equipment, and naturally speedy.
Now, for the super-duper secret boss fight, I'd have to stick with Terry's Hottest Dance and Birdie's Spewing attack thingy (forgot what its called). The super-duper secret boss is obnoxious with its high HP, resisting to most status effects besides Pissed, potentially perma-killing your party members whenever it feels like it (although Joy Mutants and other special enemies can do that, you can at least predict and strategize, predicting this boss is a whole 'nother thing) and resisting physical attacks (resisting physical attacks is your biggest issue here). Having Nern for SP/HP replenishing, using Finger Beam moderately, and then Terry and Birdie for their combo of burning up enemies is the best. It's cheap, sure, but the high HP is wayyyy too much, especially if somebody plays in Hard Mode like I did because you have to do it all in one sitting. Luckily you don't get a GameOver if you lose the battle, but you're probably gonna lose vital party members and "softlock" you from beating it. I should reattempt the fight myself but frankly I don't think wasting an hour or two on dwiddling a boss is good game design. Even when you get items after your party members are perma-killed, they have a low hit-rate and miss right-then-and-there.
tl;dr, Nern and Olan are solid all around from beginning to end. Carp is very good too if you level him up to the point he learns Wrist & Ankle Slash. For the super-duper secret boss fight, you're gonna want Birdie, Terry's Hottest Dance, and Nern to make it manageable.

[soc]

It's a bit of an odd combo but Birdie and Jack are good because you can have Birdie do his gasoline spit and then have Jack do one of his juggle moves, which inflicts burning. Birdie and any party member who can inflict burning is pretty decent, I just prefer Jack because he can hit multiple enemies at once with juggling.