Need Help Defeating Yunalesca

[jamiebm11_1]

I need some battle tips for Yunalesca.

[pulse]

I don't remember Yunalesca being all that difficult for me but I think I was overtrained. I haven't played X for about 10 months so I can't really remember so I'm just going to quote a gamefaq faq:



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Round 1
Yunalesca is VICIOUS this round! She counters everything! If you use
Attack or Skill, she will counter with Blind magic. You now miss often.
If you use Magic, she uses Silence. You now can't cast magic. If you
use Special or an Overdrive, she counters with Sleep. You now don't get
turns. It's quite difficult to keep up. Also, it's very annoying to
keep fixing these status ailments. Worst of all, these counters also
have a Dispel-strike like quality. Every time she counters against you
(which is almost every time you do something to her), she removes any
status augmentations that you have. Haste, Protect - whatever - she
takes it off.

Not only that, but she actually gets turns, too. On her turns, she
actually INFLICTS DAMAGE! I know, I know, it's hard to handle. She
generally uses Absorb, which takes about 2,000 HP from you and gives
2,000 HP to her. She CAN and will Absorb more HP than you currently
have (if you have 500, she can kill you and take 2,000). Also, she
sometimes uses a regular attack, which does 200 to 500 points of
damage.

What to do! Luckily, her counters are spells. Thus, use Reflect (after
Hastega)! She is immune to Sleep, Silence, and Darkness, but at least
they miss you and you keep your Haste! Oddly enough, while Dispel
removes Reflect, her counters don't, so they aren't EXACTLY like
Dispel. You can be free of her counters. If you, for some reason, don't
have or like Reflect (?), you can use Esuna on your characters. You can
just hack away at her, now. Hard...right?

Round 2
No, I don't lie when I say a boss is difficult! She has a second form!
She opens with an attack called Hellbiter. Hellbiter is your best
friend and worst nightmare. It only does 200 to 250 points of damage to
everybody, but then they all gain zombie status! It works through
Reflect!

Basically, unless you have Zombie Ward or Zombieproof armor (which I
suggest you DO NOT equip), you've got three zombies. This is bad.
Yunlesca only has two other attacks, now - Cura and Regen. Cura does
around 1,500 damage to zombies (although heals regular characters), and
Regen periodically kills zombies, like Poison.

Keep your zombie status! Just trust me! I'll tell you why soon enough.
Also, keep your Reflect! Reflect bounces off Regen and Cura, and while
they help Yunalesca, now the only way she can hurt you is with her
occasional Hellbiter!

Switch in your 4th best character before killing her and let him be hit
by Hellbiter. Then, switch him back out. JUST DO IT!

Make sure everybody is at high HP and in zombie status when you kill
her.

Round 3
This is why I said the battle is hard. She opens with Mega Death. This
is a Death attack that hits ALL characters. They all die. You lose.
Game Over.

...Or do you? Instant death doesn't work on the undead...thus, any
zombies in your party survive! She WILL use Mega Death periodically
now, so keep everyone as zombies!

Why is this bad news? You are now forced into being a zombie, yet she
still uses powerful attacks! Her Curaga does 4,500 to a zombie, almost
surely killing him! Also, she still periodically uses Regen. If you
can't Reflect it, use Dispel. If you can manage to keep Reflect up,
though, this isn't a problem.

Her Mind Blast attack is, however. This inflicts about 600 points to
each character and adds random status effects. Confusion, sleep, and
curse are the only ones I've seen - each of which proving highly deadly
in the heat of battle. Curse only prevents Overdrives, but confusion
and sleep are bad! Either try to hit the character with Yuna, Rikku, or
Lulu (as they do low damage), or wait for Hellbiter or another Mind
Blast. It's not fun.

So basically, Mind Blast is your problem. You can't heal your zombies
as you'd hurt them, and they slowly die off. This is why you should
keep your HPs apart. If one character dies, QUICKLY revive him and
bring him to full health before the next Hellbiter. If you can do this
every time somebody dies (hopefully getting Reflect up, too), then your
only threat should be Mega Death.

Of course, that's not quite so easy. You might wind up with just one
zombie left on several occasions (if using Tidus, Yuna, and Auron as I
did, Tidus and Yuna might die around the same time). For this reason,
your remaining zombie has three options. He can frantically use Phoenix
Downs and try to help everybody (bad idea). He can use a Mega Phoenix,
killing himself but reviving the other two. This is risky, as the other
two are now non-zombies, and a Mega Death could give you Game Over.
Lastly, you could switch in you back-up zombie from last round to help
bring people back, as his HP is higher.

Whatever you do, DO NOT find yourself with only non-zombies! You can't
depend on Hellbiter to prevent Mega Death - she could very easily use
it first! It may take a couple tries, but you should get through it.
Good luck!

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*Eva Unit 00 adds that if you have Deathproof armor for anybody, USE
IT! This is completely true! You can then avoid zombie for that
character (Holy Water to cure it) as Mega Death won't kill you, and
Cura, Regen, and Curaga will heal him! So if you have Deathproof, use
that and stay away from Zombie.
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Other Tips
On her second and third forms, Yunalesca neglects to use Absorb. This
is because she'd GIVE the zombies HP (it's backwards, remember?).
However, if you call an Aeon, as it can't receive Zombie status, she
will use Absorb. Every time you call an Aeon, she will use Mind Blast
(to inflict Curse and prevent Overdrives) and then use Absorb. She also
will ALWAYS counter Aeons with her regular attack (although it's very
weak). Aeons tend to give her more HP via Absorb than they inflict, so
I recommend only using them to finish her third form off with an
Overdrive.
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Good luck.

[some guy]

O.k well that really defies the whole point of this, it would be easier to talk from experience, and if you dont remember your experience than, the simple option would be to not post, rather than to copy someone else's FAQ

any on topic, I find that its good to have at least one person with Auto-med and one person with Zombieproof, You can really attack anyway you like, and heal as you feel you need too, if you have someone with zombieproof it, will make it so when she casts regen on you it will heal you, YAY. With the Auto-med, you will automatically cure yourself out of Zombie (providing you have Holy waters).
Just before she gets to the third and final stage try to have one person without Regen and in zombie status, which foils her First attack in the third stage "Mega-Death" (also if you can, get deathproof) and just keep slashing away, if she uses Mega-Death again make sure you have someone in Zombie.

Well thats how I did it the last 5 times.

[pulse]

Originally Posted by some guy

O.k well that really defies the whole point of this, it would be easier to talk from experience, and if you dont remember your experience than, the simple option would be to not post, rather than to copy someone else's FAQ

Since when did he say "I only want tips written by you directly", ****, I was just trying to help.

[Maridia]

Well here's how I went about it. I pretty much had my main team gone through mastered in their own sphere area, I had that and my guys had just regular weapons. What i did was have their limits set for the begining of the fight and used it and after had 1 character remain defensive and keep healing while the others would fight. It worked first shot for me.

[CLOUD]

I remember that Yuna helped the most, casting Holy & dealing 9999 damage every time. The rest only used healing items & soome Overdrives.

Having one person without a zombieproof armor helps, because he won't die from the Death spell.

But anyways, especially in the bulky head form, Holy is the way to go.

[Aerif]

Make sure everybody is at high HP and in zombie status when you kill
her.

If your still looking for tips or don't have access to Zombie (or aren't fast enough in casting it) then I suggest you summon an aeon instead of casting zombie. Aeons are immune to instant death and the more powerful aeons may have an easier time taking out Yunalesca

[Spiral Architect]

You have probably beaten it by now but i'll still put my 2 cents in.

Things you need

1 member with death proof
If you can, zombie proof
Auto medic
and if you can auto phenoix (at least one character)
and if you have them, a level 3 or 4 key sphere and underdog secrets or 2 gambler secrets

1st form
as you start off this battle on your beginning turns cast haste/hastega on your party. her attacks wont do much damage. is you have it use auto life, but i dont think you will have it now, just keep on attacking her, and as she gets down to low health, if you dont have deathproof on one character and you aren't zombified, use zombie attack on one of your charaters (one with auto phenoix if you have it). once she turns into her 2nd form she will cast mega death (i think thats what it's called) and if you have zombie staus on it will do nothing, if members died and you dont have auto phenoix use a mega phenoix.

2nd form
same statergy as above, haste and attack, heal your staus if you dont have auto med. when shes on low health get zombied up.

3rd form
this one you want over quickly, if Rikku's not out, send her in with her overdrive at the ready. haste it up if needed and mix the one of the 2 sets of items i specified and it will create Trio of 9999, with this all your attacks will have a base damage of 9999. after this is done MAKE SURE RIKKU DOESN"T DIE!!! if all three characters have the ability use it would be good. for the characters with use, use the element gems on her, they will do like 5-6 hits of 9999 which makes this battle over easily, also use tidus's blitz ace.

now if you cannot preform trio of 9999 just constantly attack her and it will be over soon.


I hope I helped