Yu Yevon (Boss)
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| Final Fantasy X Final Boss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yu Yevon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Japanese | エボン=ジュ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Romaji | Ebon Ju | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Sin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Steal | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rare Steal | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Drop | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rare Drop | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon Drop | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Armor Drop | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bribe | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abilities | Curaga, Gravija, Osmose, Ultima | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ronso Rage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Resistant to | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Immune to | Sleep, Silence, Petrify, Darkness, Scan, Threaten, Confuse, Berserk, Death, Eject | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Information | The party cannot escape The party have permanent Auto-Life status | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yu Yevon is the final boss of Final Fantasy X.
[edit] Battle
Yu Yevon is notorious among fans for being very easy for a final boss, which are supposed to be difficult, so he is commonly referred to as just a small challenge after the much harder final boss, Braska's Final Aeon. His main offensive attack, Gravija, an attack that even harms himself, only removes 75% of all characters' total HP and cannot KO anyone. He can also use Osmose and Ultima, but only when his HP is very low. All characters have the Auto-Life spell permanently cast on them automatically, so losing the battle is impossible, unless one does so deliberately by incapacitating the party with status effects. The real hindrance to beating him, however, is that he automatically casts Curaga on himself, which restores 9999 HP, every time he takes damage, and as in the previous battles, the Yu Pagodas will occasionally heal him.
[edit] Strategy
Even so, all this can be easily countered. One strategy is to ensure that characters are equipped with weapons with the Break Damage Limit ability. The other trick is far easier. Yu Yevon is easily susceptible to the Zombie status effect. Zombie Attack can be used for example. This way, restorative items and spells, including those of the Pagodas and Yu Yevon's own Curaga will harm him, whereas restorative items and magic will kill him instantly. Reflect can also be cast on Yu Yevon to redirect his Curaga spells to the party, allowing the party to attack him with physical strikes until he dies.
The simplest strategy actually requires no abilities whatsoever. The trick is to simply focus on keeping the Yu Pagodas incapacitated, while Yu Yevon slowly whittles down his own HP with his Gravija spells. Once the spells start doing 0 damage to him, it means he is down to 1 HP, and can be killed by any attack.
Another strategy is to Doublecast magic for two 9999s (or more with Break Damage Limit) every turn. Yu Yevon will only be able to use Curaga for one 9999.
It is possible that Yu Yevon's boss fight was supposed to be a puzzle battle, where the party has to use the last strategy indicated. If so, the programmers made the mistake of not making him invulnerable to status ailments and effects, which would have forced the party to use that strategy (unless of course they have the Break Damage Limit ability).
