The Best/Worst Final Fantasy Summons Ever

Wildgunmen writes:
"We all have a soft spot for the summons in the Final Fantasy games. Were you a Bahamut fan? Ifrit? Shiva? Alexander? Tonberry? Cactuar? Or were you really cool and chose Doomtrain every chance you could? Here’s a few of our favourites."

[ClownBelt]

Best: Anima FFX
Worst: Every summon in FF 12

Edit. Oh mader peker, I forgot Yojimbo being the best.

[Lucreto]

FF XII summons were terrible. They had little use in battle and did very little damage.

[GrieverSoul]

Anything FFXII did was terrible! I actually sided with the villain because his methods and way of doing things seemed more logical than the actual main characters resolutions. Whenever I entered an area I would pray that it would not give another useless summon but a weapon instead!

But this Eden bashing has to stop! Its a freaking Garden people!! Anyone actually played FFVIII?! Remember the Gardens where the SeeDs were trained?! Gardens, SeeDs, a bell ringing anyone?!?! Who built those Gardens?! Yep! Some big fat snot like creature! Eden is a Garden as in Garden of Eden.

[Brewski007]

worst : Choco/Mog FFVii
Best : Knights of the Round FFVii

[Biggest]

YEAH RIGHT!!!! Choco/Mog was the first summon you got in that game. AND it was the only wind based summon in the game. All of the summons in FFVII had their purpose and worked well. Games like FFXII had the worst by far. Hell, I don't even have all of the summons allocated to this day. Belias was the only one you needed, and that was just for story progression.

[aaronisbla]

it wasnt the only wind summmoned monster on the game...

[Biggest]

Typhoon was Wind/Water. So against mobs that had weakness to wind but strength to water were uneffected. Choco/Mog was the only 100% wind based summon.

[NecrumSlavery]

Favorites: Ifrit from VIII & Knights of the Round
Least: qweezl thing from 8

Sepheroth had a great summon in VII, too bad it wasn't available to the player.
Kingdom Hearts had some of my favorite summons....

[MariaHelFutura]

They need to summon me up some FF13Versus.

[Elwenil]

I can't remember the name of the one I liked from FF8. If I remember right it started out with a pentagram and a bunch of chains and fire and some Death looking guy. I might be mixing up more than one, but that's all I can remember. Anyone have any idea what I'm getting at?

[KingKiff]

He was from FF10 on the PS2, the one where he has like a top and bottom side and was sorta like a mummy in chains?

[coolfool]

Anima?

[ChozenWoan]

Only did it once and was like... nah, I just got my grind on and lvled up.

to Elwenil:
Enima I think is the name of that summon... I loved the damage that baby put out.

[coolfool]

I think an enima is something VERY different.

[Spenok]

I have to say Yojimbo from FFX was my favorite. I bought the action figure of him, so rare and awesome. Now if i could only get my hands on that Coldcast FFXI Elvaan/chocobo statue. I just dont want to spend $800 on it >< But its SOOOOOOOO beautiful...ive concidered it many times lol.

[Lucreto]

Best- Ifrit/ Yojimbo FF X
Worst- Ark FF IX
Makes me laugh every time- Cactuar FF VIII

[UP]

ark is amazing if all your characters have regen on. especially if your characters have auto-regen.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

the regular bahamut from ff7.

[KingKiff]

Bahamut from FF8 was my fav

[Miraak82]

I thought FFVIII had the best summons in the series... Diablo, Cerberus, doomtrain, toneberry king, jumbo cactus and it had the best incorporation of summons into the battle system.

add-on@ Just for the record , I think Odin is the best summon in the entire series... just badass

[DA_SHREDDER]

Ifrit always had some sick summons. Alexander and Odin were sick too.

[theEx1Le]

Anima and the magus sisters from FFX were always my favourites :) oo and Yojimbo too.

[VersusEM]

I wonder how the summons in Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be

[Miraak82]

I hope they do something useful and neat in versus w/ the summons .. I feel they've been lacking in the summon department in FF for quite sometime in the series...FF7 had really cool summons , FF8 had a nice variety of GFs and they each had their own unique uses in battle ,9 and 10 ,the Eidolons and Aeons where very integrated into the stories by having summoners as a pivotal part of the plot but in 10 there was only like 8 of them and 3 of them were useless for the most part. FF11 was really hard to build up to be a summoner , FF12 the summons were dumb and useless , 13 as a game was just meh... so technically I haven't really enjoyed summons since I was 18 years old which makes its 10 years since summons have had any real relevance in the series ... make me proud nomura to be a final fantasy fan and give meaning to the franchise once again

[Godmars290]

Not that they were bad, just can't think of any i really liked or looked forward to.

[DA_SHREDDER]

OMG, the shiva sisters was a total turn off. I didn't get the vehicular combat either. It didn't do much for me. Oh I long for the days of old school jrpgs.

[Godmars290]

Ifrit and Bahamut from 7 & 10.

Best appearances 4 & 6, with the 4 the best because you actually had to earn the right, beat them, to use them as well as go on side quests.

[Kain81]

What happend to Ramuh, Siren, Diablo, Bismarck, Indra, Leviatan, Titan, Raiden (Odin transformed), Gilgamesh (comes to take vandetta for Odins death)all this ESPERS/ SUMMONS/ GUARDIANS are lost in the new FFs

[Lord_Ranos]

Shiva from Final Fantasy X was badass.

[blasian]

Best summon was Quezecoatl i cant believe he got replaced by some old ass man.
Second would have to be Doomtrain, hes just cool.

[Lucreto]

Actually Quezecoatl replaced Ramuh in FF VIII. Ramuh was the lightening based character for most of the FF series.

Doomtrain was a pain to get. I had to spam the cards to get enough fangs to get the summon.

[blasian]

Thats totally right and i beat FFVII and forgot all about ramuh being there. I just loved the Quezecoatl animation though how he would unwrap coming from the thunderstorm while im tapping the hell out of the square button for boost. Damnit i need to go download FF8 right now.

Yes Doomtrain was a pain to get but it was so worth it.

What SE needs to do for any future titles would be to have a list of all summons and let the gamers vote which ones wed like to see in the game.

[MajestieBeast]

Eden 20minute summon yay:P nah im kidding.

I would say Gilgamesh but pretty much all the summons in ff8 were sweet i mean doomtrain,Diablos,Tonberry King,Cactuar. Doomtrain was such a drag to get malboro tentacles(shudders).

[Dac2u]

I'll always be a fan of Knights of the Round from FFVII, when you see 13 massive beings come out and deal for massive damage, it was pretty amazing for the time. Also, the first time I saw Ifrit in FFVII, I was in awe, I immediately wanted to know what the rest of the summons were going to be like.

[UP]

Best: Ark and Knights
Worst: Choco, pandemonia

[Esena]

Old School RPGs...where have you gone. :(

FF13 and 12's summons were a joke! SE...make summons useful in games. If they aren't necessary in battle no one will use them!

Do RPG devs have brains anymore?

[zeddy]

i never needed summons especially in ff8, all you needed to do is have low health and destroy enemies with limit breaks.

[Robaperas]

I really liked Hades in FFVII, it was an effing badass summon, it even scared my little cousin back in the day.

[NexGen]

I just want to point out that my Cactuar is clearly more betterest than the article's image.

[CrzyFooL]

KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND OR GTFO!!

[Kain81]

The Crusaders in FF6 were more Badass than Knights of the Round in my opinion

[No FanS Land]

iris from golden sun2 :P

the Magus sisters were crazy. deal till you get mindy to shoot her bee dart, then rince and repeat :D

yojimbo is by far my favorite summon ever.

diablos from FF8 was pretty bad ass. Really liked the fact you had to actually beat most of the GF in FF8.

[Senden]

Doomtrain!!! It took me freaking ages to get it and it was a huge let down.

[tablav]

Doomtrain was the absolute G...it was useless, but the coolest Summon of all time!

[gameman]

the BEST summon is for sure Diablo from FFVIII

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

the worst is FFXII summons really i never used them in that game even once

[tablav]

Nuff Said...