Umaro (Final Fantasy VI party member)

Umaro
ウーマロ (Ūmaro?)
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Gameplay details
Job class	Berserker
Unique abilities	None
Desperation Attack	None
Weapon	Bone Club
Armor	Snow Scarf
Ultimate weapon	None

Umaro is recruitable as a party member in Final Fantasy VI. He is a Berserker who cannot be controlled directly in battle, but the player can affect his likelihood of using certain attacks by his relics.

Umaro cannot equip any magicite.

Stats

Stats

Umaro has all-around good stats. His Strength, Stamina, Defense and Magic Defense are the highest in the game by far, and his Speed and Magic are mediocre.

Name Initial Stats Strength 57 Speed 33 Stamina 46 Magic 37 Attack 47 Defense 89 Evasion 8% Magic Defense 68 Magic Evasion 5% Escape Success 3 HP Gain 60 MP Gain 0 Level Averaging +0

Level HP MP EXP + 1 60 0 0 2 71 4 32 3 83 8 96 4 97 13 208 5 114 18 400 6 134 24 672 7 156 30 1056 8 180 37 1552 9 206 45 2184 10 233 53 2976 11 261 62 3936 12 291 71 5080 13 326 81 6432 14 365 91 7992 15 409 101 9784 16 459 111 11840 17 513 121 14152 18 570 132 16736 19 631 143 19616 20 696 154 22832 21 763 165 26360 22 832 176 30232 23 904 188 34456 24 980 200 39056 25 1059 212 44072 26 1141 224 49464 27 1227 236 55288 28 1317 249 61568 29 1412 262 68304 30 1511 275 75496 31 1611 288 83184 32 1712 301 91384 33 1814 315 100088 34 1916 329 109344 35 2019 343 119136 36 2123 357 129504 37 2229 371 140464 38 2336 386 152008 39 2444 401 164184 40 2554 416 176976 41 2665 431 190416 42 2778 446 204520 43 2892 462 219320 44 3008 478 234808 45 3125 494 251000 46 3244 510 267936 47 3364 526 285600 48 3486 543 304040 49 3611 560 323248 50 3739 577 343248 51 3869 593 364064 52 4000 608 385696 53 4133 622 408160 54 4267 635 431488 55 4403 647 455680 56 4540 658 480776 57 4679 668 506760 58 4821 677 533680 59 4965 685 561528 60 5110 692 590320 61 5257 698 620096 62 5405 703 650840 63 5555 708 682600 64 5707 714 715368 65 5860 720 749160 66 6015 727 784016 67 6171 734 819920 68 6329 741 856920 69 6489 749 895016 70 6651 757 934208 71 6811 765 974536 72 6966 773 1016000 73 7117 781 1058640 74 7262 788 1102456 75 7402 795 1147456 76 7538 802 1193648 77 7670 808 1241080 78 7796 814 1289744 79 7916 820 1339672 80 8033 826 1390872 81 8146 831 1443368 82 8256 836 1497160 83 8364 841 1552264 84 8469 846 1608712 85 8571 851 1666512 86 8671 856 1725688 87 8769 861 1786240 88 8864 867 1848184 89 8956 873 1911552 90 9046 879 1976352 91 9134 885 2042608 92 9221 891 2110320 93 9306 898 2179504 94 9389 906 2250192 95 9471 915 2322392 96 9551 925 2396128 97 9634 936 2471400 98 9720 948 2548224 99 9808 961 2637112

Equipment

Umaro is permanently equipped with a Bone Club and a Snow Scarf, and his normal equipment cannot be changed. The only equipment the player can change on Umaro are his relics. Umaro has two unique relics that change what attacks he can perform in battle, the Berserker Ring (Rage Ring in the original SNES release) and the Blizzard Orb. He has no ultimate weapon in the Dragons' Den, but there is a third exclusive relic: the Bone Wrist.

The magical attack Umaro gains from equipping the Blizzard Orb is not very useful, so it is better to use him with the Berserker Ring and another relic, preferably a Hyper Wrist or a Gauntlet; the Gauntlet boosts Umaro's damage more than the Hyper Wrist, but the Gauntlet comes in limited quantities and may be put to better use on someone else. If used with the Blizzard Orb, Umaro can make good use of a Hero's Ring to boost his physical and magical damage. When the player acquires the Bone Wrist in the Dragon's Den, it can replace either the Hyper Wrist or the Hero's Ring, as the Bone Wrist offers both of their effects and more. Umaro can equip the Master's Scroll, but it will only augment his normal attacks, not his special attacks, so it is better used on other characters.

Abilities

Umaro's Snowstorm (GBA).

As a Berserker, Umaro will act on his own in battle and cannot be given commands. According to the Final Fantasy III Nintendo Player's Guide, Umaro's special ability is named Rage. Umaro's two default attacks are a normal attack and Body Blow, where he throws himself at an enemy, ignoring defense. With the Berserker Ring equipped, Umaro may throw an ally with Body Blow instead of himself. This also ignores defense, but the power of Body Blow is determined by the thrown ally's equipment instead of Umaro's. If the thrown character is affected by sleep or confuse, they take priority to be thrown and will be cured afterward. When the Blizzard Orb is equipped, Umaro can use Snowstorm, an ice-elemental magic attack with 100 power that hits all enemies.

The odds of Umaro using each attack are as follows:

Relic	Attack	Body Blow	Throw Ally	Snowstorm
None	62% (159/255)	38% (96/255)	—	—
Berserker Ring	37% (95/255)	25% (64/255)	38% (96/255)	—
Blizzard Orb	37% (95/255)	25% (64/255)	—	38% (96/255)
Berserker Ring Blizzard Orb	25% (63/255)	25% (64/255)	25% (64/255)	25% (64/255)

Throw Ally.

Umaro is able to use his special attacks while afflicted with Imp and zombie; in the latter case he may throw an ally at another ally or even himself. Umaro can still use Body Blow and Throw Ally even if riding a Magitek armor (possible if brought to Cyan's dream). If Umaro has the Black Belt, he may counterattack with any attack he can perform.

Umaro's high physical power make him an effective attacker, but he suffers from being unable to support the party if they need it. The Cultists' Tower is a good place to bring Umaro because he will be unaffected by the field around the tower that restricts the party to using magic, and Umaro's physical attacks can be very powerful against enemies. Umaro can make a good teammate for Cyan, as he will continue to act while Cyan charges his Bushido gauge. Umaro can be a good choice for fighting on Dragon's Neck Coliseum due to his high strength and limited movepool making him more reliable than other party members.

Because Umaro cannot cast magic or summon espers, he has no use for MP. In the SNES and GBA releases, and ports based on them, Umaro's MP is not initialized in battle: this means attacks that affect MP such as Osmose and Rasp have no effect on him. In the Pixel Remaster port, Umaro still has no use for MP, but is vulnerable to attacks that affect MP. This allows allies to use Osmose on him to restore their own MP if using Osmose on an enemy is not a viable option.

Boss

See also: Yeti (Final Fantasy VI) or Yeti (Final Fantasy VI dummied enemy)

Umaro is fought under the name Yeti in the Yeti's Cave in the World of Ruin. Unused data for a weaker version of the Yeti, possibly intended to be fought in the World of Balance, exists in the game data.

Quests

Recruitment

In the World of Ruin, Umaro is found at the end of the Yeti's Cave in Narshe Cliffs, past where Valigarmanda is located. He is fought as a boss, and once defeated, becomes tame. If the player has Mog in the party, Umaro joins the party. Umaro can be recruited if the player returns to the room they fought him with Mog, if they did not originally have him when fighting Umaro.

Recruiting Umaro in the mobile/Steam version earns the Bone Carver achievement.

Gallery

Sprite sheet of Umaro (SNES/PSX/GBA).

Sprite sheet of Umaro (Mobile/PC).

Animated sprite of Umaro casting a spell (unused) (SNES/PSX/GBA).

Animated sprite of Umaro casting a spell (unused) (Mobile/PC).

Animated sprite of Umaro casting a spell (unused) (Pixel Remaster).

Animated sprite of Umaro's victory pose (SNES/PS/GBA).

Animated sprite of Umaro's victory pose (Mobile/PC).

Animated sprite of Umaro's victory pose (Pixel Remaster).