Umaro

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A yeti with a love for bone carvings. Stronger than a gigas... but a bit unruly.

Game description

Umaro is a playable character in Final Fantasy VI. He is a Yeti who lives deep in the mines of Narshe, uses primitive stone tools, and answers only to Mog. He is an optional character who can only be recruited in the World of Ruin. He is capable of limited speech.

Profile

Umaro is a giant white Yeti. He is the largest of the party, and has frightening features. Despite this, Mog seems to know how to control him, as Umaro will listen to him.

Story

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Umaro joins the party.

The player first encounters Umaro in the World of Balance when he pokes his head out of a part of the mine unreachable at this point. A (drunken) resident of Narshe even says he "saw some Moogles playing with a Yeti!" After acquiring Valigarmanda in the World of Ruin the party can enter the Yeti's Cave. When they take his precious stone (the magicite Midgardsormr), he gets angry and challenges the party to a fight. If the player wins, Umaro lets the party pass. If Mog is in the party, he will order Umaro to join.

In the ending, Umaro crushes some rocks to open up a passage. He is seen next to Gogo on the airship near the end of the credits.

Spoilers end here.

Gameplay

Umaro's SD artwork.

Before Umaro joins as a party member, he must be fought as a boss. As a party member, Umaro is a Berserker, and has the highest HP, strength and defense in the game, but his magic stats are sub-par. As a Berserker Umaro cannot be given commands, but the player can influence his attacks through his Relics. Umaro has no Desperation Attack because he doesn't have an Attack command. He cannot learn any magic.

Stats

Name Initial Stats Strength 57 Speed 33 Stamina 46 Magic 37 Attack 47 Defense 89 Evasion 8% Magic Defense 68 Magic Evasion 5% Escape Success 3 HP Gain 60 MP Gain 0 Level Averaging +0

Level HP MP EXP + 1 60 0 0 2 71 4 32 3 83 8 96 4 97 13 208 5 114 18 400 6 134 24 672 7 156 30 1056 8 180 37 1552 9 206 45 2184 10 233 53 2976 11 261 62 3936 12 291 71 5080 13 326 81 6432 14 365 91 7992 15 409 101 9784 16 459 111 11840 17 513 121 14152 18 570 132 16736 19 631 143 19616 20 696 154 22832 21 763 165 26360 22 832 176 30232 23 904 188 34456 24 980 200 39056 25 1059 212 44072 26 1141 224 49464 27 1227 236 55288 28 1317 249 61568 29 1412 262 68304 30 1511 275 75496 31 1611 288 83184 32 1712 301 91384 33 1814 315 100088 34 1916 329 109344 35 2019 343 119136 36 2123 357 129504 37 2229 371 140464 38 2336 386 152008 39 2444 401 164184 40 2554 416 176976 41 2665 431 190416 42 2778 446 204520 43 2892 462 219320 44 3008 478 234808 45 3125 494 251000 46 3244 510 267936 47 3364 526 285600 48 3486 543 304040 49 3611 560 323248 50 3739 577 343248 51 3869 593 364064 52 4000 608 385696 53 4133 622 408160 54 4267 635 431488 55 4403 647 455680 56 4540 658 480776 57 4679 668 506760 58 4821 677 533680 59 4965 685 561528 60 5110 692 590320 61 5257 698 620096 62 5405 703 650840 63 5555 708 682600 64 5707 714 715368 65 5860 720 749160 66 6015 727 784016 67 6171 734 819920 68 6329 741 856920 69 6489 749 895016 70 6651 757 934208 71 6811 765 974536 72 6966 773 1016000 73 7117 781 1058640 74 7262 788 1102456 75 7402 795 1147456 76 7538 802 1193648 77 7670 808 1241080 78 7796 814 1289744 79 7916 820 1339672 80 8033 826 1390872 81 8146 831 1443368 82 8256 836 1497160 83 8364 841 1552264 84 8469 846 1608712 85 8571 851 1666512 86 8671 856 1725688 87 8769 861 1786240 88 8864 867 1848184 89 8956 873 1911552 90 9046 879 1976352 91 9134 885 2042608 92 9221 891 2110320 93 9306 898 2179504 94 9389 906 2250192 95 9471 915 2322392 96 9551 925 2396128 97 9634 936 2471400 98 9720 948 2548224 99 9808 961 2637112

Equipment

Umaro cannot equip any equipment other than the Bone Club and Snow Scarf, both of which are already pre-equipped and neither of them can be removed from him. Luckily, the player can customize Umaro's Relics, three of which (listed below) are exclusive to him. When the player chooses to unequip all weapons and armor at the airship, Umaro's relics will not be removed.

• If he is equipped with the Berserker Ring, he can toss a random party member at an enemy for greater damage than his normal attack; precedence goes to characters who are asleep or Confused, as throwing them will remove the statuses; Umaro will also nullify Lightning and absorb Fire damage.
• If Umaro is equipped with the Blizzard Orb, he will be able to use an attack called Snowstorm, an Ice-elemental attack that hits all enemies; Umaro will also nullify Fire and absorb Ice damage.
• The Bone Wrist relic boosts all his attributes by 5 (Strength, Speed, Stamina, Magic) and Defense, Evasion, Magic Defense, Magic Evasion by 10; it also increases HP and Strength by 50%, damage and magic damage by 25%, and attacks become unblockable.

If Umaro is equipped with both Berserker Ring and Blizzard Orb, he will acquire two new abilities, making his actions less monotonous, plus he will nullify Lightning attacks and absorb both Fire and Ice attacks.

Most characters don't really benefit from the Gauntlet relic, because it empowers whatever weapon they're holding while sacrificing their ability to hold a weapon or shield in their other hand. Because Umaro only holds a single Bone Club, he has no secondary item to sacrifice and the Gauntlet is a good relic he can equip.

Abilities

Umaro is unique in that when he attacks he has four different attacks he can use: a standard Attack, Tackle (body slam a single target), Hurl (throws a character at one enemy target, if equipped with the Berserker Ring), and a Snowstorm (ice-elemental attack on all enemy targets, if equipped with Blizzard Orb). The chance he'll use each attack is:

Relic	Attack	Tackle	Hurl	Snowstorm
None	62% (159/255)	38% (96/255)	—	—
Berserker Ring	37% (95/255)	25% (64/255)	38% (96/255)	—
Blizzard Orb	37% (95/255)	25% (64/255)	—	38% (96/255)
Berserker Ring Blizzard Orb	25% (63/255)	25% (64/255)	25% (64/255)	25% (64/255)

Boss

Main articles: Yeti (Final Fantasy VI) or Yeti (Final Fantasy VI dummied enemy)

Umaro is fought as Yeti in the Yeti's Cave in the World of Ruin. Afterward, if Mog is in the party, he will join the party.

Additionally, a second dummied entry for Umaro can be found within the files, weaker than the Yeti fought in the game.

Creation and development

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Umaro was originally supposed to be a random encounter on the world map and could only be caught with a bait. Hidden game data suggests Umaro was at some point intended to be able to be encountered in the World of Balance, as an unused battle complete with stats and a simple AI script exists within the game's data.

According to Hironobu Sakaguchi, Umaro has a strong sense of honor and feels like he owes a debt to Mog, because Mog shared some food with him when he had collapsed from exhaustion.

Musical themes

Template:Listen Umaro's theme is named after him, and is the theme played in his mine. It is mixed into the ending.

Other appearances

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Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade

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• Ability Cards
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Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

Template:Sideicon Umaro appears with four Ice-elemental cards.

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Triple Triad (Portal App)

Umaro appears on a Triple Triad card.

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Secret of Evermore

Umaro and company.

In Secret of Evermore, Umaro appears among the crowd of spectators that includes other Final Fantasy VI characters at the gladiator battle of Antiqua. He appears alongside Terra, Locke, Mog, Relm, and Strago.

Gallery

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Etymology

Umaro's name is a portmanteau of the Japanese term for cryptids, UMA (Unidentified Mysterious Animal), and the Japanese suffix "maru".

He is also known as Yeti. [view · edit · purge]The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid taller than an average human that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet.

Trivia

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• Umaro's Tent sprite in the iOS version is an igloo.
• Umaro is the first playable Berserker in the Final Fantasy series who is permanently in a berserk state.
• Umaro has a placement on the Blackjack, but it can only be seen by hacking Umaro into the party or using the Airship glitch. He uses the same line as the one when he's inside the Falcon.

External links

• Umaro at Caves of Narshe

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