Specifically it makes the match really freaking annoying to figure out, since Anima also has every flavor of elemental magic in Ga form.
Remember, any MT elemental attack Anima uses gets reflected back twice (Jenna + Core).
Had you not taken that out of context, you may have noticed it was preceeded by a mention of Grand Summon? >_>
Anima's Overdrive is physical and MT. Knock out the cores, then hammer on Jenna until the elemental cores are back up, unsummon, tank out, Grand Summon again, is the idea.
The second is that Yuna's Holy is Holy and not non-elemental like it is in-game. She needs both.
Nah, one enemy in-game absorbs Holy. (Or was it nulls...it's been a while, but this has definitely come up before.) It's Holy-elemental. On a near-technicality, but it's not like anyone lets Fei get off easy because of this stuff either. We're back to one here. ^_^
Reincarnate kills Anima before Anima can take out all the Cores (Reincarnate deals 50% or so of Anima's HP, Anima's MT spell gets reflected back and kills Anima off easily enough).
This, however, is a genuinely good point that only really applies if you see Jenna as coming in with six cores.
Which is pretty uncommon IIRC, but more power to you if you do.
Reincarnate requires two.
bla bla Form 1 bla
Auto-Life.
(Please don't go "OMG WE ALLOW AUTO-REVIVAL!!1!?!?!?" which I have seen every *other* time this is brought up. To shoot it down beforehand; It was always FFT auto-life that was an issue because the game ended. Other Auto-Revival has always been a by-person choice and honestly I see no reason not to allow it. It's effective enough in-game to allow you to live through Nemesis overkill damage, don't see why it doesn't deserve DL hype.)
If you disallow it, you're correct, though, Yuna cannot beat Form 1 without Aeons unless you take levels high and see her living through it under Protect.
Pity she can't spam Bhairava, though, isn't it. Can't cut through the Aeons due to that only being after her shifts between subforms. Go pseudo-limit telegraphed attacks.
Vanity or Reincarnate + Orbs kill.
Vanity: Inflicts one random statuses, MT. 65% chance to inflict one. (You can't be inflicted with more than one status in this game) Can be Poison, Charm, Panic, Mute, Sleep.
20% chance it'll poison screwing over further status attempts, probably Reflectable. (The stat topic calls it Almighty. I cannot fathom why. It's very clearly, um, not. 'cause if it was it'd hit everything in the game with status which would be a wee bit good.)
Doubled up Reflect lets her get around this, you can't self-target Vanity on PCs and I cannot imagine why you'd let a boss self-target a spell PCs cannot.
If you don't see it as Reflectable? Sure, works on average. I'm not hyping this match as one-sided and won't mind seeing Yuna lose if it comes to that.
Latter strategy: Shell+Reflect. Ehehehe pity that Reincarnate uses two orbs and Yuna's MDur rocks and two orbs get elements absorbed by Yuna anyways, isn't it. (To expand on Meeple's attempted point: Is Reincarnate two random orbs or two chosen ones? Good question.)
Though, having said that? You could see Dekaja hit Shell. Isn't this match a lovely mess?
No, only the Hama line of spells behave like that. Xanadu is strictly a direct damage dealing Expel attack.
And is the only one.
There's a Panic-which is a status element-elemental damage spell, too. What's your point precisely?
Other games in different branches of the series don't count worth a damn, Almighty has been a standard element in Persona, too, with no difference at all from any other element. Doesn't mean I see Yuna's Reflect hitting Bhairava and Reincarnate.
Edit:
On a related note, if you see Holy hitting through, Yuna's MDef(DDS status clearly hits...something and I'm fairly sure it's the appropriate defensive stat+Luck.)+the fact that it can be poison means it's Turn 2 status.(Well. Yuna MDef doesn't matter at all for this being Turn 2, actually. It just is unless you take 50% as hitting, which is the only time the MDef comes up.) Yuna gets two Holys off, which is around 2x PC HP. Your call if Yuna gets statused out before she kills, depends on how much you respect Jenna 2 raw durability.
Mmmm, interpretation mires. ^_^