YanYan

YanYan ( YanYan) is a supporting character in the Super Monkey Ball series. She is very energetic, fast, and playful, but can show her shy side due to her crush on AiAi.
She first appears in Banana Blitz, and is present in every game since Super Monkey Ball 3D (following her absence in Step & Roll).
== Appearance ==
YanYan wears an orange dress. She has brown fur and a large bushy tail, and her hair is tied up on both sides of her head. She wears blue and red plastic balls as hair decoration, which look very similar to the balls in which the monkeys roll inside.
As of Banana Rumble YanYan has darker fur and smaller, but thicker eyebrows. Her hair now has a smoother appearance and is now held by yellow and blue accessories. Lastly, she now sports a white on blue hoodie shirt and short, black pants.
==Role in games==
In Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, YanYan joins the rest of the group to retrieve the eight golden bananas stolen by Captain Crabuchin. Her stats are as follows:
Category 	Strength
(Wii)	Strength
(HD)
Ball size 	★★☆☆☆	★★☆☆☆
Acceleration 	★★☆☆☆	
Turning 	★★★☆☆	
Weight 	★★☆☆☆	★★☆☆☆
Inertial speed	★☆☆☆☆	★★☆☆☆
Boost speed 	★★★★☆	
Jump 	★★★★★	★★★★★
Rebound 	★★★★☆	★★★★★
YanYan is absent in Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll and Super Monkey Ball: Sakura Edition. She returns in Super Monkey Ball 3D and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz, however she is only available to play in party games. In Banana Blitz HD and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, she is finally playable in the main game again.
==Strengths==
YanYan is seen as an energetic and an adorable girl. Her father, the strongest ape in the world, taught her Hachi-en-Ken. In the Main Game of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, YanYan is the highest jumper of all the characters. Monkeys would usually fall for her nice and cuteness, but that was different for Aiai. She would go blasting off with her imagination (thinking about AiAi).
==Official Profiles==
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Website: She's a fast and fearless ring-tailed lemur and a master of the monkey martial art of pugilism, Hachi-en-Ken. The day she met AiAi, she fell for him like a truckload of bananas. She is not usually shy at all, but around him, she can barely breathe.
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Instruction Booklet: A young girl who moved into AiAi's neighborhood recently. She is a fearless girl who studied a form of martial arts, the strongest in the ape world, from her father. Apparently falling in love with AiAi, she shows her shy side at times.
Super Monkey Ball 3D Website/In-Game: A young, energetic girl lemur who moved into AiAi's neighborhood. A student of the most powerful monkey martial art, she knows no fear. But, she is also shy.
==Monkey Fight Statistics==
The following are YanYan's statistics in Super Monkey Ball 3D's Monkey Fight.
*Power: 1
*Speed: 5
*Jump: 3-4
===Special Attack===
YanYan's special attack is called Whirl Hammer. In it, she Spins one of her hammers and throws it, which cycles around the stage once in a figure eight before returning.
===Description===
Move quickly to grab the most bananas!
== Animations ==
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Character Chosen Animations
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Continue Animations
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Idle Animations
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Main Game Victory Animations
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Podium Animations
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* YanYan is the first main character not to be a .
== See Also ==
* P-YanYan
Category:Heroes
Category:Playable Characters