Phoenix (summon)



Phoenix (フェニックス Fenikkusu) is a summon that appears in various games. Unlike many summons, Phoenix has often appeared as a story element. Its summon commonly involves reviving KO'd party members and is associated with the fire 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 her 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.

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 girlfriend, 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. Afterward Phoenix is gained as a piece of Magicite. It costs 110 MP to summon and it teaches the following spells: Phoenix's attack, Flames of Rebirth (Life Giver in the original version), revives the entire party with 1/4 of their max HP and deals fire damage to all enemies.
 * Raise x10
 * Arise x2
 * Reraise x1
 * Curaga x2
 * Firaga x3

Final Fantasy VII
Phoenix Materia is obtained at Fort Condor if Cid manages to protect the Huge Materia inside from Shinra. If he does 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 cast. 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.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-

 * See the Summon sequence here

Phoenix can be added to the DMW by obtaining its Materia during the "7 Wonders of Nibelheim" side quest. Phoenix's attack, Rebirth Flame, gives Zack the Raise status and he also gains a Phoenix Down.

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. Afterward Phoenix will randomly appear when all the party members have been knocked out, with a 65/256 chance (or 25.4%) to save the player from a Game Over. Its Rebirth Flame damages enemies with fire and revives the characters from KO with 12.5% of their Max HP. 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.

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 is encountered quite differently than previous avatars. Before the time of Final Fantasy XI, Phoenix was somewhat 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 her spirit rests in causes much bloodshed.

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

Currently, it seems that Phoenix will not 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.

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)

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: 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! 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).

Dissidia Final Fantasy
Phoenix appears as a summon in Dissidia. When summoned, it protects the summoner from Brave Breaks for a short time - if the summoner would be inflicted with a Brave Break while Phoenix is in effect, their Brave 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 Brave value is lower than half of his/her base Brave value, and manually, where an artwork of its Final Fantasy VIII 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.

Chocobo series
Phoenix has made an appearance in Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2. In Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, Phoenix is a fire element card, with six cards under her name. She is also the guardian of the Fire Crystal.

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