Yda Review [Final Fantasy Brave Exvius]

By Matt Baker FFBE

Max Rarity	Skills	Future Proof	Stats	Equipment	Trust Master	Overall
6	S	A	A	C	A	S

Rarity	Job	Origin	Gender	Family
4 – 6	Scion	FFXIV	Female	Human

Trust Master Rewards – Spirit of Freedom: Special Ability (Passive) – Chance to evade physical damage taken (10%)
Increase ATK (15%)

Guide	Units	Tier List	Trust Master
Town of Mitra	Royal Capital Grandshelt	Port City Lodin	Ordol Port
Port City Lydira	Village of Kol	Grandport	Village of Marlo
Ghost Port Kolobos	Felicitas Town	Industrial City Dilmagia	Village of Ambel
Town of Kolts	Aquapolis Olderion	Town of Amore	Raven's Hideaway
Earth Shrine Exp	Latius Woods Exp	Dalnakya Cavern Exp	Grandshelt Catacombs Exp
Fulan Pass Exp	Phantom Forest Exp	Zadehl Westersand Exp	Lanzelt Highlands Exp
Wolfsfang Peak Exp	Lanzelt Mountains Exp	Kolobos Marsh Exp	Golzas Canyon Exp
Kolobos Reef Exp	Shrine of Decay Exp	Maranda Coast Exp	Dwarves' Forge Exp
Windy Heights West Exp	Mobreeze Airship Factory Exp	Junkyard Exp	Wind Shrine Exp
Mystic Woods	Aquatic Cover	Lake Dorr	Ghost Ship Exp
Water Shrine Exp	Abandoned Orphanage Exp	Timber Tracks Exp
Weapons	Armor	Accessories	Crafting
Magic	Special Abilities	Espers	Colosseum
Items	Siren	Ifrit	Golem
Shiva	Ramuh	Diabolos	Carbuncle
White Dragon	Demon Chimera	The Intangir	Surging Menace
Antenolla
Festival	Join Facebook	Blog

4★	5★	6★

General Thoughts

Yda is a 6 star character that falls into the Physical Damage role. Yda is an interesting unit with a unique set up of skills.

Yda’s whole method of fighting is based off of conditional skills and setting up their ability to proc. Yda has 9 conditional skills that activate after other skills are used and this gives her a high unique factor on how she can be used.

Her two basic skills for dealing damage out right are Steel Peak and Howling Fist. Steal Peak giving a bonus chance for paralyze as well.

She has a nice set up of buff skills giving her some bonus stat coverage. Fists of Earth and Fists of Fire boosting her ATK and DEF while Fists of Wind gives her a chance to evade magical damage.

Now her skill Kata is where some of her conditional skills come in. Using Kata gives Yda the access to the skills Dragon Foot and Bootshine.

Using these abilities will set off some of her condition proc’s and set out a chain of active attacks that come after each one. Using Dragon Foot opens up Twin Snakes, Twin snakes opens up Snap Punch, and Snap Punch opens up Perfect Balance.

On the same note Bootshine activates True Strike, True Strike activates Demolish, and Demolish activates Perfect Balance. So to get access to some of her better skills you gotta start with Kata then chain those skills together.

Verdict: A decent 6 star with a neat unique factor

Stats

Rarity	HP	MP	ATK	DEF	MAG	SPR	Attack Hits	Drop Check	Exp. Growth Pattern
4★	1409	68	69	52	56	53	4	2	6
5★	2013	98	99	75	81	77	4	3	6
6★	2876	140	142	108	116	110	4	3	6

Maximum Stats Increase

Rarity	HP	MP	ATK	DEF	MAG	SPR
4★	210	35	18	14	14	14
5★	240	40	24	16	16	16
6★	390	65	34	26	26	26

Resistances

Yda is neutral to all elements and status ailments.

Learned Abilities

Active
Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect	Hits	MP
5★	80		Steel Peak	Physical damage (1.6x) to one enemy Inflict paralyze (40%) to one enemy	1	14
6★	1		Second Wind	Recover HP (30%) to caster	–	6
6★	68		Howling Fist	Physical damage (1.2x) to all enemies	1	11
Trait
Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect
4★	4		Featherfoot	Chance to evade physical damage taken (20%)	–	–
4★	30		Counter	Chance to counter physical attacks (30%)	–	–
4★	58		Internal Release	Increase critical rate (20%)	–	–
5★	1		Kata	Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Dragon Foot, Bootshine	–	–
5★	34		Fists of Earth	Increase DEF (20%)	–	–
6★	22		Fists of Wind	Chance to evade magical damage taken (10%)	–	–
6★	100		Fists of Fire	Increase ATK (30%)	–	–
Conditional
Condition			Name	Effect	Hits	MP
Activated by Counter			Counter	Physical damage (1x) to one enemy	D	–

Activated by Kata			Dragon Foot	Physical damage (1.5x) to one enemy Decrease MAG (40%) for 8 turns to one enemy Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Twin Snakes	2	24
Activated by Dragon Foot			Twin Snakes	Physical damage (2x) to one enemy Decrease ATK (40%) for 8 turns to one enemy Increase ATK (40%) for 8 turns to caster Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Snap Punch	1	26
Activated by Twin Snakes			Snap Punch	Physical damage (2.5x) to one enemy Decrease DEF/SPR (40%) for 8 turns to one enemy Enables access to the following abilities for 1 turn: Perfect Balance, Snap Punch, Bootshine	1	16
Activated by Snap Punch			Perfect Balance	Enables access to the following ability (4 times in 1 turn): Snap Punch Not usable if equipped with two one-handed weapons	1	12

Activated by Kata			Bootshine	Physical damage (2.5x) with critical hit to one enemy Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: True Strike	D	18
Activated by Bootshine			True Strike	Physical damage (3x) to one enemy Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Demolish	1	14
Activated by True Strike			Demolish	Physical damage (3.5x) one enemy Enables access to the following abilities for 1 turn: Perfect Balance, Demolish, Dragon Foot	5	18
Activated by Demolish			Perfect Balance	Enables access to the following ability (4 times in 1 turn): Demolish Not usable if equipped with two one-handed weapons	5	1

Limit Burst

Rarity	Name	Effect		Hits	Cost
4★	Forbidden Chakra	Base	Physical damage (3.5x) with ignore DEF (25%) to one enemy	1	12
4★	Forbidden Chakra	Max	Physical damage (4.2x) with ignore DEF (25%) to one enemy	1	12
5★	Forbidden Chakra	Base	Physical damage (4x) with ignore DEF (25%) to one enemy	1	16
5★	Forbidden Chakra	Max	Physical damage (4.95x) with ignore DEF (25%) to one enemy	1	16
6★	Forbidden Chakra	Base	Physical damage (4.5x) with ignore DEF (25%) to one enemy	1	20
6★	Forbidden Chakra	Max	Physical damage (5.7x) with ignore DEF (25%) to one enemy	1	20

Equipment

Yda can equip 1 weapon and 4 armors.

Weapons	Armors

Rarity	Ability Slots	Affinity
4★	3	–
5★	4	–
6★	4	–

Exclusive Equipment

Name	Type	Effect
Scion Striker’s Visor	Hat	ATK+12, DEF+25, SPR+12, HP +5%, MP +5%
Guts Knuckle	Fist	ATK+88, HP +10%, MP +10%
Scion Striker’s Attire	Clothes	ATK+24, DEF+40, SPR+12, HP +15%, MP +15%

Awakening

Rarity	Material 1	Material 2	Material 3	Material 4	Material 5
5★	Seed of Life (25)	Fury Seed (13)	Sacred Crystal (15)	Bizarre Box (8)	Holy Crystal (8)
6★	Calamity Writ (20)	Calamity Gem (10)	Fairies’ Writ (10)	Rainbow Bloom (5)	Divine Crystal (5)

Lore

A Hyur girl appearing in tales from Eorzea, a region in the faraway world of Hydaelyn. A member of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, she is in charge of surveying the forest capital Gridania. She is an accomplished martial artist, and the power of her punches is much higher than one might think from looking at her petite build. She has a mysterious air about her given the fact her eyes are covered by the visor she wears, however in reality she is very cheerful and sociable.

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9 Comments

Vasilis Lalos

i have a question : in-game all the equipment exclusive for this banner has a (name) for each individual , Guts Knuckle does
‘not specify that .so is it possible for everybody to equip them and not get the HP +10%, MP +10% and when YDA has it gets the full potential of the weapon ? or its a bug and only she can have them ? because the same thing happened with the Defender;s daggers ,everybody rushed to farm them but the full potential of the weapon Manalchemy Increase MAG (15%)
Auto-heal (120 HP, 0.6x) per turn was a (Rem only)

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June 3, 2017
Oldkye

She has way more then two damaging attacks that combo and open up as she uses them and then can use 4 each turn after she reaches perfect balance.

Try her out and see.

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June 3, 2017
Vishious

You make no mention of her main draw which is her combo tree. Bootshine tree is her damage dealing tree which has alot of damage potential while her snap kick tree has -40% debuffs to all parameters for 8 turns and once either tree is complete you can use perfect balance to cast snap kick (250% damage -40% atk debuff +40% atk buff) or Demolish (350% atk 5hits ) 4x each which is massive damage potential plus her exclusive armor and weapons which are superior to most equipment save for TMRs which her equipment also gives her increase to HP and MP. She is definitely higher than a B+ and if you are going to do a review please make it comprehensive and not incomplete and pass it off as a valid objective analysis

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June 3, 2017
rockstarvc

Please re-evaluate this unit! Yda is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to for long term and drawn out boss battles if equipped properly with dual-wield and attack boosting equipment, and paired with a good healer. This combo heavy unit breaks bosses and enemy units hard, while self-buffing, self healing, and you can freely use 4 skills at a time with perfect balance activated just like having this unit make four turns in one, if combined with dual wield does major damage while stacking any four freely chosen skills.

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June 3, 2017
Robert

I’m confused.
Did you ever try using her Kata ability?

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June 4, 2017
Aoi

you might wanna redo this one … she can be insane even just using all of her special equipment +1-2 TMRs

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June 6, 2017
SarenD

Ummm… you left out ALL of her good conditional abilities….

http://exvius.gamepedia.com/Yda

Activated by
Kata Dragon Foot Physical damage (1.5x) to one enemy
Decrease MAG (40%) for 8 turns to one enemy
Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Twin Snakes 2 24
Activated by
Dragon Foot Twin Snakes Physical damage (2x) to one enemy
Decrease ATK (40%) for 8 turns to one enemy
Increase ATK (40%) for 8 turns to caster
Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Snap Punch 1 26
Activated by
Twin Snakes Snap Punch Physical damage (2.5x) to one enemy
Decrease DEF/SPR (40%) for 8 turns to one enemy
Enables access to the following abilities for 1 turn: Perfect Balance, Snap Punch, Bootshine 1 16
Activated by
Snap Punch Perfect Balance Enables access to the following ability (4 times in 1 turn): Snap Punch
Not usable if equipped with two one-handed weapons 1 12
Activated by
Kata Bootshine Physical damage (2.5x) with critical hit to one enemy
Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: True Strike D 18
Activated by
Bootshine True Strike Physical damage (3x) to one enemy
Enables access to the following ability for 1 turn: Demolish 1 14
Activated by
True Strike Demolish Physical damage (3.5x) one enemy
Enables access to the following abilities for 1 turn: Perfect Balance, Demolish, Dragon Foot 5 18
Activated by
Demolish Perfect Balance Enables access to the following ability (4 times in 1 turn): Demolish
Not usable if equipped with two one-handed weapons 5 12

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June 10, 2017
SarenD

So.. by my recollection of the skill demolish AFTER using perfect balance…. demolish hits an enemy 5 times. After you use perfect balance you can use demolish *4* times in the next turn… so… 4*5 = 20 hits to selected monster/s , yes?

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June 10, 2017
SarenD

I think at the very least, you need to re-evaluate your skills rating for this character 😉

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June 10, 2017