Phoenix (summon)



Phoenix (フェニックス) is a summon that appears in various games in the Final Fantasy series. Unlike many summons, Phoenix has often appeared as a story element. Its summon commonly involves reviving knocked out party members and is associated with the element of Fire. Its down feathers have the same effect, but without the element.

Final Fantasy V
Phoenix makes its first summonable appearance as a Level 5 summon in Final Fantasy V. It is obtained at the top of the Phoenix Tower, where Lenna has a flashback in which she must decide whether or not to cut off the tongue of Hiryuu to save her mother. Whether she refuses or not, the party obtains the summon.

Phoenix does Fire damage to all enemies and revives a party member giving full HP and MP. Phoenix costs 99 MP to summon.

Final Fantasy VI
Phoenix is an esper obtained in the Phoenix Cave in the World of Ruin. Locke has been searching for a way to revive his lover, Rachel, and finds a way by the use of the Phoenix esper. He uses Phoenix to revive her, but she only lives long enough to assuage Locke's guilt before passing away for good. Afterwards, Phoenix is gained as a piece of magicite. It costs 110 MP to summon and it teaches the following spells:


 * Raise x10
 * Arise x2
 * Reraise x1
 * Curaga x2
 * Firaga x3

Phoenix's attack, Flames of Rebirth (Life Giver in the original version), revives the entire party with 1/4 of their max HP.

Final Fantasy VII
Phoenix Materia is obtained at Fort Condor if Cid and the party manage to protect the Huge Materia inside from Shinra. If they do so, the Condor sitting atop the fort dies and its baby hatches. During the condor's death the fiery wings of a Phoenix are seen, and afterwards a Phoenix Materia can be found lying on the floor near the nest. Its attack is called Phoenix Flame and costs 180 MP to summon. It deals Fire-elemental damage to the enemy party and revives all KO'd party members with full HP. Phoenix's spell power is equal to 3.75x the base magic damage.

If the player loses to the boss fought atop Fort Condor after failing the minigame to protect the fort, they will not obtain Phoenix, but it can still be dug from Bone Village after the event.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-

 * See the Summon sequence here

Phoenix can be added to the Digital Mind Wave by obtaining its Materia during the Seven Wonders of Nibelheim side quest. Phoenix's attack, Rebirth Flame, gives Zack the Raise status as well as a Phoenix Down. The table below links the DMW's power to its level:

Final Fantasy VIII

 * See the Summon sequence here

Phoenix is a "semi-Guardian Force" in Final Fantasy VIII and can only be summoned by using a Phoenix Pinion during battle at least once. Afterwards, Phoenix will randomly appear when all the party members have been knocked out or afflicted with the Petrify status, with a 65/256 chance (25.4%) to save the player from a Game Over. Adding more Phoenix Pinions to the inventory (3 Mega Phoenix refine into 1 Phoenix Pinion with Siren's Tool-RF) greatly increases the chances that Phoenix will appear.

Its Rebirth Flame damages enemies with fire and revives the characters from KO with 12.5% of their Max HP. Despite it appearing even when characters are not knocked out, but in the Petrify status, it will not heal the status and the player will get a Game Over anyway. Its damage is calculated as follows:


 * $$Damage = 254 * Level / 10 + 30 + 50 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * (265 - TargetSpr) / 8 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * 30 / 256 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * (900 - ElemDef) / 100:$$

Elemental Defense starts at 800 (0%), 900 nullifies damage and 1000 absorbs it. If an enemy is shown to be weak against an element, its Elemental Defense is below 800. If damage becomes negative (due to high Elemental Defense), the target is healed by that amount.

Final Fantasy IX
Phoenix is an eidolon that only Eiko can summon. It is learned by equipping a Phoenix Pinion. It deals fire damage to all opponents and revives fallen party members restoring their HP equal to:

$$[((Target's Spirit + 30) * Target's Max HP) / 100]$$

HP restored is doubled if Concentrate is equipped.

Phoenix is randomly summoned automatically if Eiko is in the party and the party is annihilated. This rate is proportional to the amount of Phoenix Pinions the party has in the inventory. The formula for the percentage chance is given by:

$$[(No of Phoenix Pinion/256) * 100 percent]$$

Since the maximum number of Phoenix Pinions one can keep in the inventory is 99, the maximum percent chance that Phoenix can appear using the above formula is:

$$[99/256 * 100 percent = 38.671875 percent = 38.7 percent]$$

When Phoenix is summoned automatically to save the player from a Game Over, it has a different summon animation, deals no damage to enemies, and uses no MP.

Final Fantasy XI
One of the five Terrestrial Avatars, Phoenix's form is much different than previous avatars met by the player. Before the time of Final Fantasy XI, Phoenix's physical body was destroyed, and her spirit now lingers in a flaming Great Katana wielded by a samurai named Tenzen. Phoenix will only be revived after the blade in which her spirit rests causes much bloodshed.

Later in the Chains of Promathia chapter, Phoenix fuses her form with Selh'teus, who aids the player in the battle against Promathia alongside Prishe.

It is unlikely that Phoenix will become a player-usable summon in any future versions of Final Fantasy XI.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
One of eight creatures the Summoner can summon, Phoenix will fully revive any fainted unit and instantly KO any undead in the area with 100% accuracy. Its area effect is two spaces outward and one space diagonally from the point of origin. It is learned from the Nirvana Staff. Phoenix is learned for 300 AP, costs 24 MP to cast, is Holy elemental, and is stealable through the ability Steal: Ability.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Once again Phoenix appears as a summon for the Summoner job class. It revives all KO'd party members with full HP and heals all units in a large area. Due to changes in the KO system from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Phoenix revives all KO'd allies instead of just any targeted bodies. It is learned from the Nirvana Staff just like in Tactics Advance, which also happens to be the same weapon that teaches Arise, the White Magic spell with the same effect (but single-target and without the healing effect).

Phoenix has a range of 4, costs 450 AP to learn and 45 MP to summon.

Crystal Defenders
Phoenix can only be summoned in Crystal Defenders W1 for the price of five crystals. When summoned, Phoenix increases the attack power and range of all the player's units for the current wave.

Final Fantasy Dimensions
Phoenix costs 99 MP to summon and is a level 4 summon for the Summoner job. It inflicts Fire damage to all enemies and revives KO'ed party members. Phoenix is a mid-level summon and the seventh summon obtained in the game.

Dissidia Final Fantasy
Phoenix appears as a summon in Dissidia. When summoned, it uses Flames of Rebirth, which protects the summoner from Bravery Breaks for a short time - if the summoner would be inflicted with a Bravery Break while Phoenix is in effect, their Bravery Points are restored to full. Like most of the summons in Dissidia, Phoenix can be summoned by two distinct ways: Automatically, where its Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- artwork appears whenever the summoner's Bravery value is lower than half of his/her base Bravery value, and manually, where an artwork of its Final Fantasy IX appearance displays. Phoenix's auto version can be obtained in the third stage of the Destiny Odyssey III, and its manual version in the second stage.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
Phoenix returns as a summonstone, with the same function as in Dissidia. Its auto version is now found in Chapter Nine: A Treasure Hunt of Scenario 013. The manual version can be purchased from certain Moogle Shops for 30 KP.

Final Fantasy Type-0
Phoenix, along with Typhon and Pandemona, was considered as one of the potential summons in Final Fantasy Type-0, but the idea was discarded.

Final Fantasy: Unlimited
In the anime, Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Phoenix makes several appearances as a summon. The Soil Charge Triad (Soil is like the colored bullet of a Magun, used to summon creatures) needed to summon Phoenix is:

Followed by saying: "Burn! Summoned Creature! Phoenix!"
 * Origin of all, Mother Black!
 * Burning all to ashes, Fire Red!
 * The critical point of all, Burning Gold!

In the English audio version, the Soil Charge Triad was changed to: Followed by saying: "Burn up! I summon you! giga Phoenix!"
 * The origin of all things, Mother Black!
 * A heat that will scorch all creation, Fire Red!
 * The critical point of everything, Burning Gold!

Phoenix is later upgraded to Giga-Phoenix (the Soil Charge Triad remains the same).

Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon
Phoenix can be summoned by the Phoenix Stone item that casts casts Reincarnation Flame, a Fire-type attack that has a reviving effect.

Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2
The game has an item called Phoenix Feather that automatically summons Phoenix to take the player out of the dungeon when the player is about to get a Game Over. The Phoenix Feather is obtained the same way as any other feathers in the game, by breaking their claw or saddle items. Phoenix is obtained from the higher level claws or saddles.

Phoenix Stone is a dummied item in the game that works exactly the same as the Phoenix Feather. Even if the item is dummied, the item still works if the player adds it to their save file via artificial means.

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales
In Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, Phoenix is a fire element card, with six cards under her name.

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon


Phoenix appears as the guardian of the Fire Crystal and is fought as a boss at the end of the Guardian Dungeon 1. After the battle the player obtains the Phoenix Magicite. When summoned, Phoenix uses Flames of Rebirth that casts the Raise and Curaga spells on Chocobo.

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Phoenix appears as a trading card, depicting its Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- incarnation.

Lord of Vermilion
Phoenix makes an appearance in the arcade-based card game Lord of Vermilion as a summonable character.