Final Fantasy X Final Boss
Yu Yevon
エボン=ジュ (Ebon Ju)
Statistics HP Overkill MP 99,999 0 1 Strength Magic Defense 1 200 1 M. Defense Agility Accuracy 1 44 0 Evasion Luck 0 0 AP (Overkill) Gil 0 (0) 0
Elemental affinities Fire Lightning Water Ice Holy - - - - -
Sensor	Possesses Aeons
Location	Inside 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. It is fought in Sin's core after defeating Braska's Final Aeon and all of Yuna's aeons.

BattleEdit

Yu Yevon is notorious among fans for being an easy final boss, so much that Braska's Final Aeon is often cited as the game's true final boss. Yu Yevon's main offensive attack, Gravija, an attack that even harms himself, removes 75% of all characters' total HP and cannot KO anyone. He can also use Osmose and Ultima, but only when his HP is low.

All characters have the Auto-Life spell permanently cast on them, so losing the battle is impossible, unless one does so deliberately by incapacitating the party with status effects such as petrification. The real hindrance to beating Yu Yevon is that he automatically casts Curaga on himself, which restores 9,999 HP, every time he takes damage, and as in the previous battles, the Yu Pagodas will occasionally heal him.

StrategyEdit

One strategy is to ensure that characters are equipped with weapons with the Break Damage Limit ability. The other trick is easier: Yu Yevon is susceptible to the Zombie status effect, which can be inflicted with Zombie Attack. This way, restorative items and spells, including those of the Pagodas and Yu Yevon's own Curaga, will harm him, whereas resurrecting 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.

Another strategy is to Doublecast magic for two 9,999s (or more with Break Damage Limit) every turn. Yu Yevon will only be able to use Curaga for one 9,999.

If the player doesn't wish to risk the chance of being hit with Ultima when Yu Yevon is weak, they may Use a Candle of Life on him to inflict Doom, and thus he will die instantly in three turns.

Another strategy requires no abilities whatsoever. The trick is to 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.

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 they have the Break Damage Limit ability).

One other easy-to-use strategy is to weaken his spells with the Magic Break ability, which will make his healing fall from 9,999 to 6,666.

GalleryEdit

Yu Yevon manifests.

Yu Yevon in the final battle.

TriviaEdit

• The Yu Pagodas combine together around Yu Yevon, and then they dissolve in the same way as Chaos in the original Final Fantasy after his defeat. This is the first time this style of death is used since Safer∙Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII.

Related EnemiesEdit

• Yu Pagoda