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Old 03-01-2006, 06:14 AM   #1
 
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This is Yan chalenge FAQ, this may help you defeat FF IX 's Powerful Monster
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1 - About the Enemy
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Finding the Island
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There's only one place to challenge the Yans. Vile Island is to the
South-West of the Iifa Tree. To make things more annoying there's
only two ways to get on it - both of them by air.

The easier of the two methods is to play the game until you get
control of Garland's/Kuja's Airship the Invincible. You gain
command of this airship at the start of disc four.

The second way is a Flying Chocobo. Play Chocobo Hot and Cold,
collect and dig up enough chocographs for Choco to evolve into a
golden chocobo. You won't be able to collect enough Chocograph
Pieces for Choco the evolve until you have control of Regent
Cid's airship The Hilda Garde 3.

You'd be mistaken for thinking you can land the Hilda Garde 3 here.
The Hilda Garde can only land on grassy areas which Vile Island does
not have.

Island Treasures
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I'm not covering this in detail since this is mainly side quest
stuff and other FAQ's such as Yee Seng Fu's Side Quest FAQ cover
these in depth.

If you've gotten a gold chocobo you'll be able to find Chocograph
number 23 (Fairy Island) here.
This treasure chest contains: 33 x Potions
15 x Annoyntment
1 x Holy Mitre
1 x Dark Matter Card

In the forest on Vile Island you'll encounter a special kind of Yan.
He'll ask you if you've met his friends before running away. If
you've met his eight friends around the world and met their demands
the special Yan will stop running away and ask for a Diamond. If
you give him this he will give you 50 AP and a Rosetta Ring for
your troubles.

Meet Your Foe
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Below is information about the Yan
Level: 72 EXP: 42,672
HP: 19,465 AP: 2
MP: 3,378 Gil: 4,436

Status Immunities: Berserk, Silence

Attacks: Comet, Virus Powder, Float, Aera, Snort
Weak Against: Shadow
Items Stolen: Ore, Elixer
Items Won: Hi-Potion, Phoenix Down
Blue Magic Learned: Auto-Life

What makes it so tough?
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First of all his attacks. Although it rarely uses Aera magic all
other moves are quite common. He pummels you with Comet almost
every turn usually causing heavy damage to a single team member.
(Usually anywhere between 1000 and the full 9999 damage). When he's
not using Comet he'll probably be using Virus Powder, which damages
for about 2000HP and inflicts the Virus status (In my opinion this
is a helper. I'll discuss this later). In addition to doing big
attacks he has high speed. Sometimes he can do two or three
attacks in a row.

But what makes him toughest by far is his counter-attack. Unless
the attacked Yan is under the influence of sleep status ANY
attack on him whatsoever (even if it misses) will immediately
follow with his Float magic or the dangerous Snort attack. This
counter will literally Snort the attacker out of the battle. The
character snorted will not gain any battle EXP/AP similar to the
Virus status. Losing any member from battle is bad because it
leaves the remaining fighters to take up all the damaging attacks
dished out by the Yans.

What makes it worth it?
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Why put yourself in this sort of punishment?
ANSWER: EXP and Elixers.

A single Yan doesn't offer the most EXP per defeat (The Chimera
offers more). But unlike Chimera's which only appear singley, Yans
can appear in groups of twos and threes as well.
SO that's 3 x 42,672 = 128,016 EXP!!!
And that's without the Level Up Ability on!
This amount of EXP makes it easy to level up to the maximum Lv99.

Also, the only other way to get Elixers other than treasure chests
and winning them from bosses is to steal elixers off the Yans.

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2 - Ability Strategies
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Overall Suggestions
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By the time you have reached Vile Island you should have learned at
least half of all your abilities and be around about level 50 (If
not, you better if you want to stand a chance against them.)

Since no-one has unlimited magic stones for equipping you have to
ration out abilites. Remember, choosing abilities is totally up to
you and the following are only sugguestions. The following
abilities are highly recommended.

*Auto-Life
*Auto-Regen
*Auto-Potion
*HP +10%/HP +20%
*Gamble Defence

These three are recommended but not nescessary.

*Auto-Haste
*Antibody (I know this Guards against Poison/Venom but I also
believe this reduces chances of the Virus status but I
don't know for sure.)
*Insomniac (See Quinas Battle Strategy to see why)

Individual Character Sugguestions
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Since everyone has a slightly different variety in abilities here's
some sugguestions for individual character abilites.

Zidane Tribal
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Mug, Bandit, Master Thief, Counter, Eye 4 Eye, Protect Girls,
High Tide.

Princess Garnet/Dagger
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Half MP, Boost, Concentrate, Chemist.

Vivi Ornitier
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Half MP, Return Magic

Adelbert Steiner
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Chemist, Cover, Counter, Eye 4 Eye, Alert.

Eiko Carol
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Half MP, Boost, Concentrate, Guardian Mog.

Freya Crescent
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High Jump, Initiative, Restore HP, High Tide, Chemist.

Quina Quen
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Half MP, Millionaire, Absorb MP, Counter

Amarant Coral
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Return Magic, Counter, Cover, Eye 4 Eye, Restore HP, Power Up.

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3 - Battle Strategies
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Battle Overview
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If you're around the Lv50 mentioned earlier each character should
have at least 2500HP or more. This should be enough to survive
Virus Powder. Damage caused by Comet seems very random (usually
1000+ damage). Cross your fingers and be prepared to heal.

Yans have the advantage if ANY team member is KO'ed. Revived
characters have low HP they will die again if the Yan decides to
attack them. Don't wait for Auto-Regen to heal them, have someone
heal characters who are critically injured as soon as possible.

If you're manually healing your party avoid using Potions unless
the character has the Chemist ability. Healing 150HP is nice but
it just doesn't hack it against two attacks of about 1000-3000HP
each. Use healing magics or Hi-Potions to restore HP.

When battling Yans, concentrate on a single Yan. Attacking all
three at once results in three seperate counter-attacks. A real
time-waster.

Don't bother trying to drain the Yan's MP. He has too much and even
if he did run out of MP he still has Snort and Virus Powder.

Instant death attacks are very handy in these battles. But be aware
that if you miss, (which is quite often for death attacks) there's
a fair chance that you'll be snorted away.

If you're going to use special attacks go for maximum damage. Two
hits of 9999 will kill him.

Above all be prepared to lose at least one character from the
battle. By dying or removal from battle it doesn't matter.

Individual Character Strategies
===============================
Each character has their own set of commands and so also need their
own set of strategies. Below are tips for fighting the Yans for
each individual character.

Zidane Tribal
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The hero of the game will be in every single battle with the Yans
(Since you cannot switch the leader). This is a bit of a downer
since Zidane's range of attacks are a bit poor.

If you plan to use Zidane to steal items from the Yans have the
Mug ability equipped - If you're going to be thrown out of battle
for stealing might as well hurt him some.

If you plan to use him as an attacker power up Zidane's Thievery
attack by using the Steal command lots (Each successful steal
increases thievery damage by 14~15HP). After stealing hundreds of
times Thievery will eventually reach the full 9999HP damage.
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Old 03-01-2006, 06:17 AM   #2
 
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Princess Garnet/Dagger
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Dagger can be used as either a healer or an attacker. Dagger has
the Chemist ability which doubles the effects of Potions, Ethers
and Hi-Potions. Use this ability to top up the teams HP/MP.

Don't bother using Daggers status attack magics. They tend to miss
and Yans have immunity to Silence. And Berserk.

Using summons with the boost ability equipped is useful for
characters with the Auto-Regen ability equipped. The summon
animation will give some time for Regen to recover lost HP. Take
note that this will probably get her snorted so use this at your
own risk.

Odin can instantly dispatch Yans (provided the attack hits) but
will probably be snorted by remaining Yans. Learn Odin from the
Dark Matter item bought from the Treno Auction house.

If you have 70-80 Amethyst and are at a reasonably descent level,
Atomos with the boost ability can do 9999 to all. Using this as a
first blow will set other characters up for a single 9999 hit
kill.

Alternately have Dagger summon Ark since Yans are weak against
shadow elemental attacks. There are two ways to obtain Ark: defeat
optional boss Ozma or refine two pumice pieces in Memoria at the
Legendary Synthesis Shop in disc four.

Vivi Ornitier
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Vivi should mainly be used as support in Yan battles since Yans
have high resistance to magic. More often than not, Vivi will die
if he is hit by Comet. This is consistent with most mages with
their high magic but low defense.

The return magic ability will allow Vivi to counter-attack all
Comet attacks thrown at him provided he doesn't die from their
initial attack. However like the Yans Comet attacks, the damage
from Vivi's comet seems pretty random.

If you plan to attack using Vivi cast the shadow elemental magic
Doomsday. Note that this can SERIOUSLY hurt your whole team too
so equip Shadow elemental defense items. Learn Doomsday from the
Mace of Zeus in Memoria (disc four).

If you haven't reached disc four yet Vivi should Focus a few times
before using his strongest magics such as Flare and Bio. Don't try
using Meteor - I've never seen it hit.

If you want to try a quick one-hit-kill use Vivi's Death magic.
Learn this from the Black Hood.

Adelbert Steiner
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Steiner should be used as a full-on attacker. However, Steiner is
one of the few characters who has Chemist so you may want to use
him to top up characters with Hi-Potion/Ethers.

Avoid using his Power/Armor/Magic/Mental Break attacks. These miss
quite often and you can't afford to lose him just for reducing the
Yans defenses.

Use Steiners strongest attacks such as Shock, Climhazzard and
Stock Break.

Exploit the Yans shadow weakness by using Steiners Darkside attack.
This attack costs HP instead of MP so heal after using it.

Iai Strike can kill Yans instantly if the move hits.

If Vivi's also in the attacking party use Steiners strongest sword
magic attacks such as Flare and Doomsday.

Eiko Carol
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Eiko should primarily be used as a healer in these battles.

Try to keep Eiko in this battle. There's a faint chance that
Phoenix will resurrect a fallen team.

Similar to Dagger, the animation time of the summons will allow
characters with Auto-Regen to recover lost HP. Remember that
you'll need boost equipped to see a full summon animation.

Cast Full Life to KO'd characters the moment they've fallen. This
costs quite a bit of MP but use this anyway. You need to worry
more about HP than MP. Learn this magic from the Siren's Flute
or a Light Robe.

If more than one person is KO'd in the battle cast Phoenix. It'll
hurt the Yans while resurrecting fallen characters. You'll probably
lose Eiko but in my opinion it's probably worth it.

Freya Crescent
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Freya has the Chemist ability. Use this to top up HP/MP levels when
they are getting low.

The more dragons the party kills, the more damage Dragon's Crest
inflicts. About 60 dragons killed will do 9999 damage.

If you're feeling EXTREMELY lucky use Six Dragons. The outcome
each time you cast is not very predictable.

A more interesting way is to Trance Freya and make her jump. When
Freya uses Spear the Yans will counter attack other party members
until there are none remaining. When the other members are dead
Yans will be unable to counter attack until Freya's Trance ends,
but by then Freya should have killed them.

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Re: Yan - Powerful Monster

The Yans are indeed the best way to get stronger in quick way although you already gotta be very strong . That was actually the main problem i always had with the Yans: they attack very fast( still i can beat them quicker than i can beat Ozma ) Anyway, great list!
My brother fought these Yans alot, and now he's about Level 90 ......which becomes kinda silly.......
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Re: Yan - Powerful Monster

Yans are not necessarily the best for getting strong in a quick way. Grand Dragons gives you almost as big rewards and are far easier to kill.
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You're right. And when you're fighting those, you can also reach the maximum damage of Freya's special attack.........the one its name i can't remember.. Not Six Dragons, but........

Anyhoo, also a good way of training is just going through Memoria alot. Storywise it's a pain in the ass, when you're in the Crystal World, and you decide to go back to Gaia for a sec.
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Freya's special formula attack is called "Dragon's Crest".
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That is not all with Freya equipment u can have 3 times Ap then usual and she can be even in urs party fight with 100 dragons and u have dragon crest demage 9999 hp to every enemies u fight in the batle.
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Re: Yan - Powerful Monster

I tend to set them up with the abilities you mentioned in your guide but I then get quina to cast night on them.

Stealing items from them dont wake em up but mug does. I then use abilities which will kill them in one hit. Eg lai strike, death, odin, mustard bomb or freeze.

When the animation for these attacks are happening I just go into the item inventory to stop time moving so yan dont get as much time to attack as he normally would. I tend to use zidane for healing or reviving.

Having eiko is useful aswell as phoenix can revive you all if yan defeats your party.
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