Summon magical beasts for aid.Description
Summon is a skillset learned by the Summoner that calls a summoned monster into battle. By leveling up the Summoner, the ability can call forth increasingly powerful creatures when assigned to another job. When a party member's job is Summoner, they can summon all the summoned monsters regardless of level. It is disabled if the user is silenced.
Obtained
Summon is equipped to all Summoners by default. After leveling up the Summoner job, a character can have the Summon ability equipped on any other job and use any summon whose associated level has been attained by the Summoner. Therefore, to be able to use all summons as a non-Summoner, a character must level their Summoner job up to level 5. Summon is the primary ability for Summoners, who can use all summons without the need to attain a summon's associated level first.
The Summon ability requires 15 AP for level 1, 30 for level 2, 45 for level 3, 60 for level 4 and 100 for level 5. For an additional 500 AP, the Summoner can learn "Call", another summon ability that performs a random summon for 0 MP.
Mechanics
The summons' effects vary, but most of them deal elemental damage to opponents. The elemental attacks can thus be boosted with equipment that has an elemental affinity. The main difference between summon spells and Black Magic spells is that there is no split damage property; while Black and White spells have their power factors halved when using a single-_target/multi-_target modular spell to affect multiple _targets, summon spells hit all _targets for their full power. This makes summons more useful against multi-_target bosses or groups of enemies, particularly summons of similar level and MP cost to Black Magic spells.
The Level 1 summons are bought from a shop in Walse. Many must be obtained by defeating the summoned monster in battle; some are random encounters and some are bosses in dungeons. Some are obtained by finding the scene that gives the party the summon.
The Summoner's Call ability lets the user summon any of the obtained monsters without MP cost. It is possible to skip early summons in order to increase the odds of later, more powerful summons occurring as a result.
Any job equipped with Summon Level 1 will gain their character's base Freelancer Magic +17 if their default stat is lower. For each additional Summon level up to level 5, the Magic bonus is increased by 4 per level, for a maximum of +33 Magic at Summon Level 5. Upon mastery, Freelancers and Mimes gain the Summoner's base Magic unless they already have a higher base from another mastered job.
List of summons
| Summon | MP | Level | Obtained | Effect (Power Factor) | Image |
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| Chocobo (Chocob) |
5 | 1 | Buy: Walse, Phantom Village (300 gil) | Choco Kick: 92%: Low non-elemental magic damage to a single enemy. (30)
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| Triggers the "Choco Kick" attack against one enemy. Triggers the "Fat Chocobo" attack against all enemies. | |||||
| Sylph | 8 | 1 | Buy: Walse, Phantom Village (350 gil) | Whisperwind: Attacks a single enemy, and all party members recover the damage inflicted, split equally among them (so ¼ each if all four are conscious). (30) |  |
| Absorbs HP from one enemy to heal all allies. Trigger "Whisperwind." | |||||
| Remora | 2 | 1 | Buy: Walse, Phantom Village (250 gil) | Constrict: Paralyzes an enemy. |  |
| Paralyzes one enemy. Trigger "Construct." | |||||
| Ifrit | 11 | 2 | Drop: Ifrit (Library of the Ancients) | Hellfire: Fire damage to all opponents. (45) |  |
| Attacks all enemies with fire. Triggers "Hellfire." | |||||
| Shiva | 10 | 2 | Drop: Shiva (Castle Walse) | Diamond Dust: Ice damage to all opponents. (38) |  |
| Attacks all enemies with ice. Triggers "Diamond Dust." | |||||
| Ramuh | 12 | 2 | Drop: Ramuh (random encounter, forest outside Istory or castle section of Interdimensional Rift) | Judgment Bolt: Lightning damage to all opponents. (53) |  |
| Attacks all enemies with lightning. Triggers "Judgment Bolt." | |||||
| Golem | 18 | 3 | Drop: Golem (random encounter, Drakenvale or waterfall caverns section of Interdimensional Rift) | Earthen Wall: The party negates (20 + caster's level) * 50 HP of incoming, physical damage. |  |
| Protects all allies from physical damage under a certain limit. Triggers "Earthen Wall." | |||||
| Titan | 25 | 3 | Drop: Titan (Karnak Meteorite) | Gaia's Wrath: Earth-damage to all ground-based opponents. (110) |  |
| Damages all enemies in an earthquake. Triggers "Gaia's Wrath." | |||||
| Catoblepas (Shoat) |
33 | 3 | Drop: Catoblepas (random encounter, northwest island, Galuf's world (accessed via submarine)) | Demon Eye: Petrifies _target. Can miss. |  |
| Petrifies one enemy. Triggers "Demon Eye." | |||||
| Syldra | 32 | 4 | Pirates' Hideout (merged world) | Thunderstorm: Wind damage to all opponents. (165) |  |
| Carbuncle (Carbuncl) |
45 | 4 | Drop: Carbuncle (Castle Exdeath) | Ruby Light: Bestows reflect to all party members. |  |
| Deflects magical attacks with a barrier for all allies. Triggers "Ruby Light." | |||||
| Odin | 48 | 4 | Drop: Odin (Castle Bal's basement, entered from Jachol Cave) | Zantetsuken: Instantly kills all non-heavy opponents.
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| Leviathan (Levia) |
39 | 5 | Drop: Leviathan (Istory Falls) | Tsunami: Water damage to all opponents. (195) |  |
| Bahamut (Bahmut) |
66 | 5 | Drop: Bahamut (North Mountain) | Mega Flare: Non-elemental damage to all opponents. (250) |  |
| Phoenix (Phenix) |
99 | 5 | Phoenix Tower | Flames of Rebirth: Fire damage to all opponents and revives a KO'd ally with full HP and MP. (105) |  |
| Eggman | — | — | Summoned through Magic Lamp | Egg Chop: Deals no damage. |  |
Other appearances
Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia
Three summons make cameo appearances:
- Syldra serves as Faris's support during invocation of her EX Ability Thunderstorm.
- Lenna summons Phoenix in her EX Ability Brave Phoenix.
- Lenna can also summon Bahamut in her Burst Mode, Mega Flare Shot.
Pictlogica Final Fantasy
Some of the summons appear.
Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Some of the summon attacks appear.
- Ability Cards
- Legend Cards
Final Fantasy Record Keeper
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Gallery
- For the summon sequences, see: Summon (Final Fantasy V)/Videos
- GBA
- Anthology
- Defunct mobile/Steam
Etymology
Evocation is the act of calling upon or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition. Comparable practices exist in many religions and magical traditions and may employ the use of mind-altering substances with and without uttered word formulas.