How to Unlock Diving and Esquie’s Other Abilities

Esquie is a faithful companion who helps you traverse the continent. You first meet him in his cave, Esquie's Nest, and from there, he remains a consistent member of Expedition 33. Return Esquie's rocks to unlock new abilities for Esquie, including: breaking obstacles, swimming, flight, and even diving underwater. Press X while in the overworld to mount Esquie and begin exploring new areas!

For Esquie to join the party, you need to progress the main story until you've completed the Ancient Sanctuary and entered the Hidden Gestral Village. After participating in the tournament, you get the password to enter Esquie's Nest. From there, Esquie has a small task for you, and once you complete it, he is happy to travel with Expedition 33. Most of his abilities are unlocked by progressing the main story, with the notable exception being the ability to dive.

Esquie's power is tied to his rocks, but for some reason, he keeps losing them. That's where you come in, you can locate Esquie's rocks and return them to him to unlock new abilities. While exploring the Continent, you might have noticed these rock fields blocking the entrance to certain areas. Esquie can break through these, opening up new areas such as the Stone Wave Cliffs.

How to Unlock Swimming

You need to cross the second ocean to reach the Monolith and take down the Paintress, and Esquie can help with that. He needs you to find Florrie, which you get for beating the final boss of the Stone Wave Cliffs and progressing the story.

How to Unlock Breaking Corals

From here, you need to continue through the story until you clear Old Lumiere. After this, Esquie can break the ocean corals, opening up new areas to explore.

How to Unlock Flying

Esquie's flight is unlocked during your battle with the Paintress. Afterward, there are many new areas to explore, but some of them are extremely difficult. Look out for the Danger! warning when exploring, and be prepared to come back later when a world boss hits you for 3x your maximum health.

• Press A in the overworld to fly.
• You can move down and up with LB and RB, respectively.

How to Unlock Diving

After you complete the story, try speaking to Esquie in camp whenever the opportunity presents itself. If you spend enough time with him, you can progress his relationship to level 6, where you do a short quest to obtain Urrie.

This opens up a few new underwater areas to explore, with the most notable being Renoir's Drafts. As with the areas you can reach via flight, some of these are extremely dangerous.

Summary

That's how to unlock all of Esquie's traversal abilities, including: breaking obstacles, swimming, flying, and diving underwater.

• After you win the tournament in the Hidden Gestral Village, travel to Esquie's Nest to meet this legendary being.
• Complete the Stone Waves Cliffs to obtain Florrie, unlocking the ability for Esquie to swim.
• After clearing Old Lumiere, you can break the ocean corals.
• Esquie's ability to fly is unlocked during your battle with the Paintress.
  • There are many new areas to explore in the skies above the continent, but some of them may be very dangerous.
• This diving is unlocked after you complete the main story, by speaking to Esquie in camp and progressing your relationship level with him to 6. There is a short quest that takes you back to Esquie's Nest, after which you obtain Urrie.

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Written by: Tenkiei