Yama

Yama Fight Guide

📍 How to Get There

• Use the tree at ::home to teleport to Yama.
• Talk to the demon to enter the lair.
• Run to the throne and click on Yama to start the fight.

🛡️ Gear Recommendations

• Magic: Purging staff + Mark of Darkness + Dark Demonbane

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  Gear 1

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  Gear 2

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  Gear 3

🔰 General Mechanics (Applies Throughout Fight)

• Yama targets players based on which combat style hit him last:

Melee: He chases and melees you if close. Magic: He stays put, uses range/magic, and boosts magic defence to +60.

Basic Attacks (all max hit 46 without prayer):

• Melee: AoE axe swing (3x3). Pray Melee to reduce damage to 6.
• Magic: Snap after flames appear around him and your character. Pray Magic before the snap.
• Ranged: Snap after shadow swirls. Pray Missiles before the snap.

Poison:

• Starts at 20 damage.
• Use sanfew serum or araxyte venom sacks (costs 4 damage per use).

Stat Reduction:

• Max defence drain = 80 (down to 145).
• 1 elder maul spec or 3 emberlight specs.
• Use emberlight for full Attack/Strength drain.
• Accursed sceptre spec drains Defence (34) and Magic (38) – helps mages.

⚔️ Phase 1 (100% to 66.6%)

What to Do:

• Start fight → Yama targets player.
• Attack starts based on glyph color near throne:

Red glyphs → starts with ranged attack. Purple glyphs → starts with magic attack.

Attack Pattern:

• Every phase, Yama uses:

1 regular attack → 1 special → then 3 regular attacks → 1 special → repeat.

Special Attack Mechanics:

• Stand on matching glyph (Fire=red or Shadow=purple) to block special.
• Do not step early! Doing so deactivates the glyph.
• If Yama is closer, you take more damage/prayer drain from stepping on glyph.
• In duo, only 1 player needs to stand on glyph.

Arena Hazards (before specials):

• Shadow Waves: Skip over them or take 20 damage & lose prayer briefly (same timing as P2 TOA for reference).
• Fire Streaks: Move quickly across arena; if hit, you get rooted & burned.
• Void Flares:

Destroy fast or Yama heals. Use purging staff + Dark Demonbane + Mark of Darkness for fast kills.

• You can destroy 1 flare and stand on matching glyph to block the explosion of the other.
• The flares have red or purple cores to indicate glyph color.

💀 Intermission – Judge of Yama (After 66.6% and 33.3%)

What to Do:

• Jump across stones to reach Judge while dodging fire spells.

Judge Mechanics:

• Judges have 400 HP, pray against melee + range first.
• Switches prayer to whatever style you last used.
• Use magic/melee.
• Hits you land are always max hits.
• Ignore prayer boosts for magic (focus on high-damage staff only).
• Kill Judge quickly → Back to arena.

⚔️ Phase 2 (66.6% to 33.3%)

What to Do:

• Start by attacking with magic to stop Yama from chasing melee-style.

Changes from Phase 1:

• More Shadow Waves (2 per cycle) and Fire Streaks.
• Meteor Strike: Huge fireball AoE.

Move at least 2 tiles from center or die instantly. Best to be 6+ tiles away to avoid all damage.

• Shadow Stomp: Roots + prayer drain + up to 60 damage. Pray accordingly.
• Same void flare mechanics as Phase 1.

⚔️ Phase 3 (Final 33.3%)

What to Do:

• Yama moves to arena center and stays put.

Changes:

• Faster attacks (every 6 ticks instead of 7 → 4.2s).
• Increased Defence, but previous drains still apply.
• No glyphs anymore.

Fight Strategy:

• Magic: Use purging staff or Tumeken’s shadow switch.
• Melee: Use halberd, flinch, or Donofly method (advanced).

Yama’s Only Special: Shadow Crash

• 3 fireballs land in a line (shown in video below).
• Step sideways (1 tile perpendicular) from center to dodge bowtie-shaped shadow explosions.

Void Flares:

• Spawn frequently.
• Use purging staff + Mark of Darkness to one-shot them.
• Flares spawn at half health (71 HP).
• Always 2 flares; up to 4 can be active.
• In duo, split flare duty:

1 player west, 1 east, OR 1 flare-killer stays north in melee range and alternates between flare-killing and Yama attacking.

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