Yunalesca fight

[Space Mage Potatoe]

First time playing this amazing game!! Love it and the great story and characters. Anyone else found the Yunalesca fight tricky? So tricky when she zombies you. She always seems to time mega death just when you are not zombied, for example if someone dies from regen inevitably and has just been lifed. She got me like 6 times lol! So i decided eh close enough and have started just watching the rest of the game on youtube. Cant wait to finish this incredible story!

[Xaphnir]

You can dispel regen.

But yeah, she is generally considered one of the hardest fights in the game.

[Hinnyuu]

She will never use Mega Death without having used Hell Biter before, unless everyone is a zombie already. As long as you keep at least one zombie around, you can still recover.

You can also do the intro quest for the Monster Arena in Calm Lands, which will reward you with x60 Farplane Wind - this allows you to customize Deathproof onto an armor, making you immune to the instant death of Mega Death.

Yunalesca is definitely one of the more challenging fights, but like most encounters in FFX she's all about understanding what the fight mechanics do and how they work. Zombie protecting from death, counterattacks, dispel, etc. are all factors to consider. As long as you account for those, you'll do fine.

[Casurin]

I would definitely say she is the hardest main-boss of the game due to her skillset and use of status-effects. This means that with a bit of preperation and tactics she becomes a lot easier. Or you can brute-force here with some aeons (Don't waste them on first form) - Bahamut should be enough to take like half here HP in one go.

There are imo only 2 other bosses that are close in difficulty and 1 that is a bit harder as he does not rely on effects but pure stats.

But if you did not skip the normal fights and just do a bit of extra mobbing in each area (4x speed, high encounter - works wonders) you should just about reach the end of the sphere-grid when encountering her, which makes you strong enough to beat her if you watch out to keep 1 person in zombie.

[Yippo the Clown]

Pretty sure all three phases of the fight have entirely pre-set attack patterns. In phase 3 (the one where she uses Mega Death), it goes like this. Note Healing means either Curaga or Regen, chosen randomly (I believe).

Mega Death
Hellbiter / Healing
Hellbiter / Healing
Mind Blast
Hellbiter / Healing

If you keep your entire team in zombie at all times, you don't have to worry about Mega Death in the slightest.

You can mitigate her Healing by casting Reflect on your own characters (which is NOT dispelled by her basic counter), though if you do this make sure you throw Shell on her to mitigate the healing she gets.

Don't bother casting any buffs, as they're removed by her basic counter (Cheer &c are not removed, but are kinda pointless when you can expect your characters to die frequently).

Revive characters as needed, though try to keep track of her attack order so you're reviving AFTER a Mega Death and not right before.

[Ryika]

Originally posted by Cosmothorpe:

She always seems to time mega death just when you are not zombied, for example if someone dies from regen inevitably and has just been lifed.

Nah, she doesn't time her attacks like that, but preventing that situation is a large part of the planning you have to do in the fight.

If your only zombie dies because of regen, then you've made a series of bad decisions that led you to that situation. "Setting up" reasonably high hp zombies is essentially the main thing you have to do if you want to beat her consistently without cheese.

Not that easy since this fight needs a completely different approach than literally every other fight in the game, but also not that hard once you've found the issues that leads you into a dead end.

[Mashiro]

The fight is a joke. It's so simple for me as long as you have auto-life. Just cast auto-life on all of your characters. Have Yuna and Lulu double-cast Fira, Tidus attack normally and she will be disposed off in 3~4 turns.

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by Mashiro:

The fight is a joke. It's so simple for me as long as you have auto-life. Just cast auto-life on all of your characters. Have Yuna and Lulu double-cast Fira, Tidus attack normally and she will be disposed off in 3~4 turns.

Yes, vastly overleveling story encounters makes them a joke.

Not wrong there.

[Glossu Rabban]

She's one of the easiest fights in the game, Yuna does limit damage with holy against her *9999* holy is really easy to get from Rikku then just use a friend sphere or white magic sphere to transfer it to Yuna, I've never really found this fight difficult in the 1000ish times I've 100% this game since release.

The run I'm doing on PC now on Steam I actually sat and buffed her up with protect, shell and so on and it was still easy.

Even my first ever play through on this game ever back on release day it was still easy.

The hardest fight in the whole game I'd consider it to be any fight that can one hit you like BK or something but as for the story it's pretty easy at least for me I kept my characters seriously under powered for that fight too.

Just so you know Bahamut the Aeon he has break damage limit on him even before Yuna get's it, He's the only aeon that has break limits before Yuna get's it.

You can literally grind a little and one tap her lol on the third phase.

Casting reflect on your attackers makes this fight really easy too since they become immune to blind, You pretty much can leave zombie on everyone as her healing power is so abysmal it would almost never lead to instant death.

You only take zombie off to heal and you only do it one character at a time to avoid he mega death, Also that mega death is telegraphed you can indeed predict when she uses it, She uses it instantly on turning to phase 3 and then she uses it periodically after so many turns there after and it is not random.

You can literally count the turns out to when she uses it again in phase 3 after the first scripted one and that's the number she will always cast it at after each cast of it, I forgot exactly the amount of turns that causes it but it's like 10 or 15 turns she will use mega death regardless of how your party is set up.

Her battle is in fact fully scripted probably why I have always found it to be the easiest fast I am a retired programmer and game developer so for me I understand a lot more in that than most players do, Pretty easy.

The easiest way to do this fight is just have Yuna spam Holy on phase 3 and when she is at 17k or something use Bahamut's overdrive.

I killed her with just auto attacks though while I casted protect on her one of the easiest fights in the game for me.

It's taking me a while to 100% it again though as I do the 100% entirely from memory never used a walkthrough in my life.

Her damage is so low I don't see how anybody could get beat by her even on the first try I found defender X to always be 50 times harder than her because defender X has no real clear weakness and in the remaster version they made defender X immune to threaten which is how you normally would have defeated it before at least in the original version of the game (PS2).

Holy, Reflect, Luck, Cheer makes this fight easy remember you can stack cheer and luck to 5 times, You can stack any special move like cheer, luck etc 5 times. ^^

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by Giera Guado:

She's one of the easiest fights in the game

This is pretty much objectively false.

You didn't find her super difficult? Cool. That doesn't mean she's "one of the easiest fights", as by pretty much any conceivable metric she simply is not.

There's no need to be dismissive of people's struggle or boast about how easy this was for you. We get it. You've beaten this game ten thousand times. You can buff her with Protect and still kill her, because you're awesome.

Guess what, so have other people. Veteran players can't lose in this game. Nothing is hard if you have all the answers and years of practice. I can beat Penance with one hand tied behind my back while juggling live honey badgers in the other. Look at me go.

Perhaps you may find that once you remove your cranium from its rectal resting place, there ARE actually other people in the world who have not played this game for 20 years, and may not have your earth-shattering gaming abilities. Such people come to places like this for advice and encouragement much more so than hoping to find an object of adulation such as your exalted self.

Originally posted by Giera Guado:

Just so you know Bahamut the Aeon he has break damage limit on him even before Yuna get's it, He's the only aeon that has break limits before Yuna get's it.

Just so you know Anima and Magus Sisters also have innate BDL that does not need to be unlocked like the rest of the aeons.

Originally posted by Giera Guado:

Her damage is so low I don't see how anybody could get beat by her even on the first try I found defender X to always be 50 times harder than her because defender X has no real clear weakness

You mean aside from the fact that you can Provoke it, leading to it using nothing but a HP-fractional attack that literally CANNOT EVER kill you, making the fight 100% unlosable?

Mr. God Gamer, indeed. Have you even PLAYED this game, geez.

[Casurin]

Originally posted by Hinnyuu:

Mr. God Gamer, indeed. Have you even PLAYED this game, geez.

Just did a quick check - he has played the game on PC but in the 6 YEARS and nearly 100 hours he was not able to come even close to finishing the game even once.

[GamingMasterRyken]

I beat Lady Yunalesca in my sleep but I also didn't fight her until after customizing my armor first.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by Giera Guado:

She's one of the easiest fights in the game, Yuna does limit damage with holy against her *9999* holy is really easy to get from Rikku then just use a friend sphere or white magic sphere to transfer it to Yuna, I've never really found this fight difficult in the 1000ish times I've 100% this game since release.

My dude literally look one comment up.

[pappysshoes]

I can beat Penance with one hand tied behind my back while juggling live honey badgers in the other. Look at me go.

Lol can I borrow This?

Cool^^

[Sevrin]

Originally posted by Cosmothorpe:

First time playing this amazing game!! Love it and the great story and characters. Anyone else found the Yunalesca fight tricky? So tricky when she zombies you. She always seems to time mega death just when you are not zombied, for example if someone dies from regen inevitably and has just been lifed. She got me like 6 times lol! So i decided eh close enough and have started just watching the rest of the game on youtube. Cant wait to finish this incredible story!

Use Aeons for the third stage of the fight.