Possibly more than any other playable class or job in the series, people associate 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy with Summoners. Eidolonꦉs, Primals, Guardian Forces, whatever you call them the ability to call down gods and monsters to fight for you is evocative.

The history of the Summoner job in Final Fantasy is aꩲ fascinating one, but it's time to settle once and for all which ones in the series are the best. Every example in the series has a shot, so read below to see which ones🎀 have been summoned.

Rather than which characters can do the most damage with their abilities, this will be based on the impact on the series as a whole 🐬as well as narrative excellence.

8 Sum♑moner Job

Final Fantasy 3

It might come as a shock but the Summoner didn't make an appearance in the series until Final Fantasy 3. It was a job class, and it focused on combining high-level Black aไnd White Magic.

Despite feeling different from later Summoners in the💯 series, it laid the groundwork and a🍸lso established the aesthetic of Summoners wearing a large horn on their foreheads. If nothing else, it deserves credit for being first.

7 🧔 Final Fantasy Tactics 🌠

With A Twist

Finalꦕ Fantasy Tactics stands out from the rest of the series for not only being a game of a different genre but also defining that genre. It also put a spin on the Summoner job, by giving it features of another Final Fantasy job.

The Final Fantasy Tactics variety of Summoners has a chance to learn a new summon by being hit by it, like how Blue Mages learn the abilities of monsters by experien💜cing them. It was a fresh take and one the series could feasibly use again.

6 Rydia

Final Fantasy 4

Rydia, from Fi💙nal Fantasy 4, was the first true Summoner in the eyes of many fans. She wa🌼s able to call upon Eidolons like Ifrit and Bahamut and was part of an entire culture of people known as Summoners.

Her importance to the story of Final Fantasy 4 can't be overstated, and she i🐎ntroduced many of the themes that would be associated with Summoners in later games in the series. Despite being overshadowed by fan favourites like Yuna, Rydia deserves real reverence.

5 Squall 💙And Co.

Final Fantasy 8

Final Fantasy 8 introduced the idea that summons, called Guar✤dian Forces, carried a consequence for their use. Despite offering great power, th🍒ey would also cause increasing memory loss in the people who wielded them.

This isn't just a throwaway piece of lore but a central conceit of the plot and♋ a real issue the leadi🃏ng characters have to make their peace with. It is, perhaps ironically, a memorable part of the game's story.

4 ♚ ꧒ Cloud And Friends

Final Fantasy 7

The leap in graphics from Final Fantasy 6 to Final Fantasy 7 made the use of summons a visual treat, a graphical spectacle that fans of the seri▨es came to expect as a standard going forward. Collecting all of the summon materias is a must for any playthroug🦄h.

It's easy to forget that you don't even get your first summon materia in Final Fantasy 7 until after you've left Midgard, which is a sizable portion of the game, but the w🍰ait is well worth it. Just make sure to give them all to Yuffie when yo𒁃u're done with them.

3 Dagger

Final Fantasy 9

The summons of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the excellent Final Fantasy 9, calledꦜ Eidolons, are given center stage for almost the full duration of the story. Their promine﷽nce is backed up, and enhanced, by not one but two Summoner party members. No offense Eiko, but it has to go to Dagger.

♌Dagger, or Princess Garnet, or Sar🦹ah if you want to go deep into her lore, is one of the best-written female leads in the series. In many ways, the hero's journey is much more about her than it is Zidane.

2 🧜 The ꦆWarrior Of Light

Final Fantasy 14

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14 lets you take on the role of some of the most iconic jobs in the series. Dragoons, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:powerful Black Mages🔜, holy White Mages, and more are all o🅺n offer. But for many the most enticing of all is the Summoner.

Summoner is easy to play, pays tribute to the series' history, ties in perfectly to the overarc✨hing main story quest of the game Primals, and perfectly fulfills the fantasy of what playing a Summoner should feel like.

1 Yuna

Final Fantasy 10

Final Fantasy ജ10 is very possibly tꦡhe best game in the entire series, so it stands to reason it has the best Summoner. Yuna is an amazing character and her role as a Summoner is vital to the entire story.

Final Fantasy 10 also lets you control the summons, called Aeons, as they replace your party in battle rather than just launching an attack and vanishing. Memorable gameplay and an unbelievable story comfortably secure Yuna her position as the best Summone🃏r in Final Fantasy.

In her honour, the Ronso people offer to carve a statue of Yuna, with the addition of the signature horn the Ronso have on their forehꩲeads. This is a fun nod to Summoners in other Final Fantasy games having those horns, or wearing artificial ones as part of their outfit.