Your favorite Final Fantasy Summons.

[omega 616]

My favourite summon overall would be this beast

Spoiler: Anima from FFX

Awesome looking, powerful as hell and she has the coolest Overdrive of all.

I also really liked Bahamut from FFX as well, such a fucking cool design

Seriously, you're going to ninja me on the first post? She is a bad ass though!

Apart from Anima, I will choose ixion. Ok, I hate the fucking design (weird unicorn looking thing) but you get it just before the thunder plains. "why is that important?" well, you turn that hellish place into a cake walk ... every enemy heals ixion (well those winged eyeballs do damage but you just take them out turn one).

It glorious! Plus it levels up Yuna (who sucks to level up before the calm lands) and thus levels up all other aeons.

 

[Dreadman75]

[HEADING=2]Doomtrain[/HEADING]
Do I really need to say anything else? Because I feel like I should just be able to say the word "Doomtrain" and everyone should just be like "yeah".

Seriously. Just LOOK at this mother fucker!

Do you SEE how FUCKING METAL this guy is?
Look at his summon!

Spoiler

He is a metal ass train flying through space!
Look at his big dumb skull face!
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, Final Fantasy summons end with Doomtrain.

I'll give you that. Doomtrain is pretty awesome!

But what about....THIS GUY:

Ark from FF IX is perhaps my favorite summon of all time. Look at him! He's a goddamn airship that flies in from space, transforms into a GIANT ROBOT, launches a barrage of missiles at his target, and then, just in case anything is unlucky enough to survive that, he proceeds to wreck the shit of anything within a 50 mile radius with a freaking superlaser! The Knights of the Round got nothing on Ark!

 

[remnant_phoenix]

[HEADING=2]Doomtrain[/HEADING]
Do I really need to say anything else? Because I feel like I should just be able to say the word "Doomtrain" and everyone should just be like "yeah".

Seriously. Just LOOK at this mother fucker!

Do you SEE how FUCKING METAL this guy is?
Look at his summon!

Spoiler

He is a metal ass train flying through space!
Look at his big dumb skull face!
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, Final Fantasy summons end with Doomtrain.

"I love this guy! He's like a demonic 'Thomas the Tank Engine'!"
-Noah Antwiler, A.K.A. The Spoony One

 

[King of Asgaard]

As much as I love all the summons, FFX's Yojimbo will always hold a special place in my heart for being able to one-shot anything at will, assuming his gil premium is paid.

Spoiler: Yes, anything

I love the little nod he gives you when you pay him enough for Zanmato.
You don't fuck with Yojimbo, that's all that needs to be said.

Spoiler

Plus, I love his design. I'm a sucker for samurai in general, and Yojimbo's regal armour seals the deal.

 

[RJ 17]

[HEADING=2]Doomtrain[/HEADING]
Do I really need to say anything else? Because I feel like I should just be able to say the word "Doomtrain" and everyone should just be like "yeah".

Seriously. Just LOOK at this mother fucker!

Do you SEE how FUCKING METAL this guy is?
Look at his summon!

Spoiler

He is a metal ass train flying through space!
Look at his big dumb skull face!
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, Final Fantasy summons end with Doomtrain.

Not to mention the fact that he utterly breaks the game. Granted, it is a pain in the ass farming up all the items you need in order to unlock him (the malboro tentacles in particular) but once you do there's not a single foe in the game that can stand up to you.

On that note, I always liked Hades from FF7, along with Bahamut, Neo Bahamut, and Bahamut Zero from FF7 as well.

Honestly, though, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Knights of the Round. No love for the most over-powered summon in the series? I mean how can you argue with a summon that deals around 129987 (9999*13) damage every time you use it? What's that? You've got 2 people with Mime materia equipped as well? Well that's nice.

Diablos from FF8 was also pretty good. YOU CALL UPON SATAN HIMSELF TO SMITE YOUR FOES!

Get him leveled up and he insta-kills anything with less than 9999 life and deals a guaranteed 9999 damage to anything with over 9999 life without having to do all that boosting crap. Not the greatest summon for later in the game, but still damn useful.

That and he gives you the Encounter-Half and Encounter-None abilities.

Phantom from FF3/6 was always good. Cast him once and you're party is invisible, then it's just a matter of caster berserk on your foes and poof: you're invincible and able to farm cactars and sand worms for 10 and 5 magic points, respectively, a fight without ever having to worry about anything.

 

[conmag9]

?O holy guardian... hear our prayers... Deliver us out of darkness into light...?

Easily Alexander. He's a colossal, holy, magitech castle that shoots lasers. The buildup for his summoning in FFIX was quite possibly my favorite part of the game.

Every Eidolon that showed up in FFIX in a cutscene was awesome (with runner up to Alex being Atomos, for being utterly horrifying). Except Bahamut, for some reason. He was a bit underwhelming, I found.

I'm also a fan of Anima (FFX) and Hecatonchires(FF13). Shame the latter was about as useless as the other summons in FF13.

 

[Mahorfeus]

People can say whatever the hell they want about FFXIII, but the Eidolons were probably some of my favorite summons in the series, at least visually. Even though I didn't really find them very practical to use, I thought they all looked really cool. I liked how they could transform and more or less work in tandem with the ones who summoned them.

The Shiva Sisters were probably my favorite. It was an interesting spin on her concept.

 

[hermes]

Out of the summon powers, my favorite is Eden from FF8 (Talk about overkill):

In terms of design, Anima from FF10 is probably the best.
And the Magus sisters are the most powerful.

 

[Rozalia1]

Alexander of course as nothing beats a giant walking castle with angel wings, and two giant energy Gatling guns.

 

[ultrabiome]

The first summon that came to mind:

Bahamut from FFX - so obvious who it was at first glance but so visually striking and badass. Having Mega flare as an overdrive too .

and right after:

Bahamut from FFVII - (Zero version). Attacks with not mega flare, not giga flare, but TERA flare... from orbit. So badass (and so much shorter than Knights of the Round).

It's a dragon. What could be more badass?

Honorable mentions: Hades (FFVII) and Anima (FFX)

 

[Cybylt]

[HEADING=2]Doomtrain[/HEADING]
Do I really need to say anything else? Because I feel like I should just be able to say the word "Doomtrain" and everyone should just be like "yeah".

Seriously. Just LOOK at this mother fucker!

Do you SEE how FUCKING METAL this guy is?
Look at his summon!

Spoiler

He is a metal ass train flying through space!
Look at his big dumb skull face!
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, Final Fantasy summons end with Doomtrain.

You forgot the best description of him though.

CHOO CHOO, ************!

 

[Maximum Bert]

FFVII and X had the best summons in the series by far for me all of them in both were amazing. VIII also had some decent ones but for the rest of the series I found them kind of meh.

I always liked the fat Chocobo summon in VII since it seemed to turn up randomly when using Chocomog other than that Knights of the round is awesome the first few times you play it but after that it gets kinda annoying since it takes to long but its probably the most impressive summon I have seen. I also always liked Phoenix in VII.

 

[Asita]

...What? You go with Bahamut in IX? What about XIV? Because the dragon god had one hell of an entry there.

 

[Platituder]

I'd have to go with the FFX version of Bahamut, as he is probably the best blend of style and substance.

 

[Cabisco]

Dear god I've just realised none of us have so far mentioned Cactaur, for shame.

 

[Daeric]

I always had a soft spot for Yojimbo from FFX. Rich mans Odin he may be but I just liked butchering his name and yelling YO! Jimbo when I summoned him.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My favorite one to watch:


My favorite one to use in general just because would probably be...Eh, I'll stick with Diablos. Something about that classic demon look that I just absolutely love.

 

[rosac]

Odin says hi.


seriously, this version of Odin is ridiculously awesome.

also, Bahamut fury because MOON LAZERS

 

[Ikasury]

Of all the incarnations of Bahumut, I've always liked the FFX version the most.

Spoiler

He's so over the top in that armor design that it's hard to even get a clear picture of him.
So many things about FFX were just cool for the sake of being cool and completely, shamelessly disregard functionality.

i love FFX's Aeon/Summon designs through and through (then again i just LOVE about all the designs of FFX :3 so badass and colorful and well balanced) but Bahamut DEFINITELY has that look that tops everything and pretty much IS everything...

FFX's Bahamut is such a boss, they used him in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, that doesn't even make ANY kind of sense other then just letting FFX lord over that over touted shenanigans 'we better' :3

just so pretty =w=