Yul may have had an idol that unfairly protected him to the finals, but he had a stronghold over his alliance to protect himself. He was screwed by the mutiny twist that put him down in numbers, yet he managed to flip Jonathan by correctly using his idol without having to play it. Players like Terry and Russell should take a lesson from Yul on using the idol. When you are backed up against a wall and have the idol, use it to flip someone or threaten to vote them out with the idol. People will flip if their ass is now on the line.
Well Russell shouldn't bother, as his idol was completely different than Yul's. Completely incomparable to Yul's, which forced a player to literally sacrifice their game to get rid of it. With Yul all everyone else had to do was blindside him or trick him into wasting it as he did.
On the other hand, Parvati could play a fairly UTR game for much of the post merge whereas someone like Yul can never have that luxury. Manhanda was always going to be the target ahead of Parv, so she had insurance as well. You can't make the same case for Yul since Ozzy always won immunity and was never the target even when he didn't win. As stated by others, Parvati also lucked out with quitters and evacuations. I think overall they're about even as far as deserving the win.
Yes, Yul would have a bigger target on his back post merge, but at the end of the day, we can only look at what actually happened. Yul has never played a season where he didn't have automatic unearned immunity every single post merge vote. Parvati only had immunity once. She had a lot more risk than him, because she was actually at risk of going home if she got enough votes whereas he was invincible!
