Summoner (Tactics)

A warrior who may Summon the most powerful of spirits, the beings known as espers.

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Summoner is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics unlocked by achieving level 3 in Time Mage. A strong, magickal-based job, the Summoner can summon espers to deal massive damage to all enemies, or aid allies. Their magick stats are high, but their other stats are lacking. In the original version, it requires 9,710 JP to master, the unit must have been attacked by Darkening Cloud as well. In The War of the Lions, it requires 9,800 JP.

Leveling Summoner to level 5, along with Squire, Chemist, Orator, Geomancer, and Dragoon, will unlock Mime. Leveling the job to level 5 as well as Orator will unlock the Bard job as well for males.

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AbilitiesEdit

SummonEdit

Summoner job command. Calls forth espers from the highest realms of the spirit world.

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Leviathan has a 40% chance of randomly being learned in battle by a Summoner who has not yet learned it and is not KO'd by it, or absorbs at least 1 HP worth of damage. Nullifying the damage does not count. Salamander has a 30% chance of being learned, while Odin, Bahamut, and Lich have a 20% chance of being learned. Cyclops has a 10% chance of being learned, and Zodiark has a 90% chance of being learned. Only one person can learn the summon per casting.

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Other appearancesEdit

Final Fantasy ArtniksEdit

Final Fantasy Airborne BrigadeEdit

Some of the summon commands appear.

Ability Cards

Legend Cards

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Final Fantasy Trading Card GameEdit

Summoners appear on cards.

Non-Final Fantasy guest appearancesEdit

Knights of the CrystalsEdit

Summoner appears as a card in the Ivalice Special Arena has a limited-time special arena with eighteen floors.

GalleryEdit

EtymologyEdit

[view · edit · purge]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.

The summons in the original version were simply called summon monsters, but were renamed espers in The War of the Lions.

[view · edit · purge]In fiction, an esper (stylized as ESPer) is an individual capable of telepathy and other similar paranormal abilities. The term was apparently coined in this sense by Alfred Bester in his 1950 short story "Oddy and Id" and is derived from the abbreviation ESP for extrasensory perception.