oh come one, a little strategy is all is involved, I'll break this up into 4 stages, preparation, and then her three transformations:
Stage 1:
-Make sure you are in the posession of armor with zombie ward with at least three of your characters and preferably at least one person (who you know you will have in your party most of the time e.g. Auron or Yuna) with sensor.
-Buy 99 holy waters, if you haven't levellled up much then you'll need em.
-Make sure you have steal with rikku
-Max out all your aeons overdrives before battle.
-Put Rikku, Auron, and Yuna in your party and get started:
Stage 2:
-Steal from Yunalesca until you get at least one stamina tablet
-Use all of Aurons Break attacks (or just full break if u have it)
-Yunalesca will counter with blind on auron, so use yuna to either give him eye drops or esuna so he can attack next round. Also, cast shell on Auron AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
-You can only use the stamina tablet via rikku's special>use option, so do it and give it to Auron. A stamina tablet will double Aurons maxHP for the fight, but if he's KO'd it will go back to normal (in which case you can steal another one)
-Now give Auron an X-Potion
-For the remainder of this stage, use yuna and another powerfull character to help Auron kill it with physical attacks. Adapt your strategy around Auron, he's the priority, make sure he's connecting and it'll be over soon.
SAVE YOUR OVERDRIVES FOR LATER
Stage 3:
-Ok now here's the interesting part, this is my own wacked out strategy but here goes.
-Keep Auron and Yuna in your party, and keep them human, not zombie.
-in the other character space, cycle your characters around so every other character apart from yuna and auron turn into zombies(you'll understand why I do this in stage 4)
-If the other character is in dire need of healing, make sure either yuna or Auron are zombies before you even think about making that other character human and healing him.
-Keep hacking away at her with Auron and another powerful character. MAKE SURE THERE IS AT LEAST ONE CHARACTER IN YOUR FIGHTING PARTY WHO IS A ZOMBIE!
Stage 4:
-at the beginning of this round, yunalesca will kill anyone who is not already dead, i.e. her death attack will miss the undead, so whoever it is in your party that is a zombie will survive. Get this person to use a mega phoenix, and then sorth things out form there as you will.
-At any one point make sure at least one person in your fighting party is a zombie, if you find ur self in a situation where they're all human, swap in someone who is still a zombie (this is why you need to make everyone a zombie beforehand)
-Pull out all your aeons and overdrives now and smack this ***** down.
-Let Auron smack her up a bit to finish her off
after the fight you get the airship, ask me for secret locations and stuff later, I've found so much!
"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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