I really wanna beat the dark aeons with him. =/
Uh, as for Yojimbo, the chance of using Zanmato is based off, among other things, the amount of Gil you pay him, the amount of Gil you have, and how much he "likes" you. Just ‘train’ him by using him in random battles. If he uses Kozuka (attack with throwing knives), Wazikashi (sword slash) or Zanmato (better sword slash;-) ), he will like you more, and therefore be more likely to use Zanmato. If he dies or uses Diagoro (dog attacks), he will like you less. Though, if I may ask, why bother? You don’t gain any great reward from killing them, apart from access to Besaid and Macalania Temples. Just beating them with Zanmato seems kinda pointless…
I did that on my first playthrough too. And I was pissed off because I wanted Anima in order to power up Nirvana. >:O
To gain the 99999 attack/life/MP etc u need to beat them.
Yes but save just in case.
Ive beaten dark valefor.
Using zanmato XD
So here are my ideas for other stuck peoples.
I think that as long as you pay him over 250,000 he will do zanmato for you.
I can’t say it will definitley work, but I couldnt really get him to do it for any less.
Theirs also another theory floating around the net, that if you use Yojimbo constantly in all your random fiend battles and pay him 1gil a time that he will grow to like you anyhow and start doing zanmato everytime for one gil.
Obviously thats very time consuming and I cant be arsed doing that lol.
I haven’t got anything to back it up but I think perhaps the more you use him, the more he ‘likes’ you and then the more he does zanmato.
Because in the adivce and strategies it seems to fit.
Hope I helped a bit =)
OH also, you get a pretty cool weapon when you kill Dark Valefor.
I think its the same as Cloud’s from 7 although I haven’t checked it out yet.
So I could be wrong. =)
The easiest way to go about this is: Go to the Calm Lands and get into random battles. Pay him 1200 gil every single time. Eventually his Wakisashi will hit everyone (break damage limit with Auron’s Masamune) for 99.999. At a certain point, he’ll start doing attacks for free, including Zanmato! (though this will never happen on Dark Aeons). This wil guarantee when fighting Dark Aoens, he’ll pull off Zanmato. It takes alot of money to do it though.
There’s a small draw back. Yojimbo may decide to auto attack the Dark Aeon, meaning he might die.
I was gutted.
Zanmato is considered Yojimbo’s Overdrive. If you get it filled (which is likely cause he has high Evasion), then the chances will increase.
Don’t pay him only 0 gil or dismiss him right away. He will dislike you more.