Which Ability Outfit Is Best In Infinity Nikki?

With making whimsical outfits with your different wardrobe pieces at the forefront of Infinity Nikki, it’s no surprise that your assorted ability outfits are some of the most important you’ll find all game! These clothing sets allow Nikki certain powers outside her normal wheelhouse, but only while she’s wearing that outfit.

While some are more innate in the gameplay of Infinity Nikki, other ability outfits are a bit more niche, requiring you to switch between them for any given situation. Whether it’s their utility in Infinity Nikki’s story or their awesome stats, here are our favorite of the ability outfits.

More ability outfits will be added to Infinity Nikki when the game launches in full. Our rankings come from the closed beta we partook in during October 2024, so we’ll update our ranking of the best ability outfits once Infinity Nikki’s full version has been released.

6 Bye-Bye Dust

Though you gain access to other outfits earlier, the Bye-Bye Dust outfit feels like the first of Nikki’s assorted ability outfits that you really need to earn. As soon as you arrive in Florawish and meet Giovanni, you’ll come across a few kids who need help sourcing the material to make string needed to hang Wishes on the tree.

This is how Nikki begins grooming animals and livestock to collect materials and resources, and finishing the Bye-Bye Dust outfit gives Nikki an interesting light blue and cream white puffy outfit. The shirt, though adorable with the blue paw print, is one of the less flattering of Nikki’s ability outfits in Infinity Nikki.

Thankfully, though, you do have one heck of a point total in the Sweet stat for wearing the whole Bye-Bye Dust outfit even before you begin to upgrade it, so if you’ve got a battle of Sweet style coming up, it might not hurt to borrow a few pieces from the Animal Grooming outfit.

5 Fully Charged

We kind of figured this outfit had a stellar Cool stat even before we put it on and looked at its stats list – Nikki looks downright slick and stylish in the Fully Charged ability outfit! The mechanic’s jumpsuit looks oddly chic on her, the accessories feel energetic, and the hairstyle of a tousled blackish bob is shockingly sleek.

The only reason it’s so low on our list is because its use is one of the more limited of the ability outfits in Infinity Nikki. Sure, there are times you’ll need to fix fuses as part of the story progression through dungeons, but the Fully Charged outfit is a little difficult to repurpose if you’re just trying to make Nikki look cute as you explore Miraland.

4 Wind of Purity

It’s not often you’ll need to use your combat ability in Infinity Nikki, with Esselings being relatively unthreatening despite being the primary monsters Nikki needs to face out in the wilds of Miraland or in dungeons, and it’s sort of underwhelming when you do. Editor Tessa Kaur has said before that combat feels like an afterthought in Infinity Nikki, unfortunately.

What saves the Wind of Purity outfit is how outright sleek it looks, with the planetary flowing dress for Nikki, the strappy heels, and the striking headpiece. It’s one of the earliest Elegant outfits you’ll have access to in Infinity Nikki, and it’s striking when you get the odd chance to wear it throughout the game! It’s just not often you’re in combat, meaning you don’t see this ability outfit as much as we’d like to.

3 Afternoon Shine

There’s always merit to collecting things as you go through Miraland for the first time, and it’s early in the story of Infinity Nikki that you gain access to the Afternoon Shine outfit to enable your favorite girl to begin catching the insects fluttering through the air in Miraland. With the Bug-Catching outfit equipped, Nikki can stock up on all kinds of interesting bugs, which she’ll need for outfit fabrication and quests later on.

Not only does the Afternoon Shine outfit serve a useful purpose in terms of skills, but its Sweet score is one of the highest of the ability outfits in Infinity Nikki. Every single piece of the Bug-Catching ability outfit is easy to repurpose either in battle or just for everyday wear, and who doesn’t love something utilitarian and versatile?

2 Rippling Serenity

Though it’s definitely not the worst of the fishing minigames we’ve ever played, fishing in Infinity Nikki sometimes feels like an afterthought, too, if you’re not dedicated to spending the days and nights out on the dock. There are a few Whimstars you’ll catch in the water like regular fish, but you’ll need the Rippling Serenity outfit to grab them.

Not only is the Fishing ability outfit in Infinity Nikki adorable, but having it is essential to surviving your very first Stylist Battle against the Ebony Scissors as part of the main story. Donning the Rippling Serenity outfit in its entirety is enough to win the showdown, and plenty of the pieces of the outfit can be repurposed for other outfits. The jacket, hat, and pants all got a good amount of wear in our playthrough!

1 Bubbly Voyage

Your first ability outfit and probably the most essential of them all, the Bubbly Voyage outfit in Infinity Nikki has some of the highest stats of them all. If you’re in need of a Sweet outfit, it’s beaten only by the Bug-Catching outfit in terms of stats, but when considering how useful the skills associated with the outfits are, the Bubbly Voyage outfit can’t be beat.

This outfit gives Nikki the ability to float through the air after a jump, and in a game with an odd amount of precision platforming required to advance the main story, you couldn’t play the game at all without the Bubbly Voyage outfit there to help Nikki close distances no regular girl could.

The hairstyle on the Floating ability outfit is fun and completely nails the bubbly theme, the dress flows and looks glamorous and Nikki soars through the air, and each of the accessories fits seamlessly with plenty of other outfits. You’ll see the Bubbly Voyage outfit a lot as you play Infinity Nikki, with all the jumps and floats you’ll need to do to navigate Miraland, so good thing it’s this adorable!