7 Most Obscure Summons In Final Fantasy

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Final Fantasy has featured many, many Summons over the years, but while some have created lasting legacies (such as Bahamut and Shiva), others have been a bit more obscure... and they're the ones we're going to shine a spotlight on today!

Examples being, Doomtrain, Eggman and Unicorn! :D

[fuelman]

Doomtrain is my absolute favorite summons. So bizarre, but the literal first action I take in any fight. Meltdown FTW!

[julioflores]

I loved how FF8 had a good mix of iconic summons and unique summons.

[_aleromano]

The Italian localisation of FF8 did an incredible job as they adapted Doomtrain name to Kharonte, to resemble the infernal ferryman of Dante's Divina Commedia

[nafslee]

Aside from Doomtrain, FF8's Eden and Diabolos were somewhat obscure at the time but were given interesting storylines in FF14.

[AnimeSquirrel]

I'm a fan of The Minotaur Brothers from FF8. The fact that they play Rock Paper Scissors to see who throws whom always makes me smile.

[jamcalx]

Next time Doom Train appears, it's attack should be a Suplex or grant it to whomever has it.

[costby]

The reason Glasya Labolas was changed to DoomTrain is space limitations. The name screen for GFs only has space for 9 characters. GlasyaLabolas is minimum 13 characters, 14 if you put a space.

[PowerPandaMods]

Here are a few more:
FFVIII - MiniMog. Not obscure because of its source material, but obscure in that it was completely locked out of the US Release. It was originally only available by playing the Chocobo World Pocketstation game. The Remastered version makes it available with Angelo Search.

FFT - Two of them. Salamader, a well-known summon from the Mana series, appears as a mid-level fire summon in Tactics and Revenant Wings only. There's also an obscure summon hidden in the game that most people just don't know about. Midgardsormr, who has also been known in the series as Terrato, Midgar Zolom, and Midgar Swarm, is actually in the game as an enemy-only summon used by the boss of the deep dungeon, Elidibus. Of course, Elidibus's enemy AI only results in it being cast when he doesn't have enough MP for Zodiark, but still has enough for Midgardsormr... a situation which is pretty rare. Hence, most people never see it.

[turntapeover]

8 in general had some wild summons lol They had Quetzcotl as the lightning summon instead of Ramuh, they had Brothers instead of Titan as the earth summon, Pandemona was only in that game too, then you had the silly ones like Tonberry and Cactuar, then you has Odin, Gilgamesh and Phoenix that appeared at random...8 summons were kinda all over the place 😂

[GregFromMinnesota]

Doomtrain and Jumbo Cactuar in FF8 are my two favorite Summons that you have to go out of the way to get!

[jamesfede]

I think for me my favorite obscure-ish summon was Diabolos. He was completely missable in his first appearance in FF8, he was so well received that it was ret-conned into the release FF6 Advance, and has been sparingly used since, usually as an enemy of sorts.

[timyac]

Just want to throw it out there on a video that is still pretty new: This channel is fantastic.

[jeremycampbell]

On the topic of Unicorn, Unicorn basically just jumped franchises. It appeared in Chrono Cross as a Light element summon that did essentially exactly what it did in FF, heal the party. Just thought I'd throw that tidbit of knowledge out there.

[mattsully]

Ahh but kujata has amazing defensive properties. Paired with elemental on the armor slots and you have a vast amount of elemental resistance!... But yeah I almost never cast it offensively since it usually cures the enemy

[Rikarikun]

Whyt was more than just a cameo in ffbe, it was a full blown relevant story character and there was a whole village of them actually. It taught the main characters how to polymorph (which was a full on story point) versus becoming an esper you could summon due to lacking combat abilities. But it just kept showing up in the second and third story chapters. Though the four chapter is set in a place that’s hard to get to physically so chances are it won’t show up again.

[xkayne]

In FFXIV Unicorn is a mount specifically tied to the white mage job quest.

[Eliwood]

Doomtrain is clearly the best summon ever they should bring it back

[diamondmetal]

I distinctly remember Kujata for having a very strange folkloric origin. Kujata originates from Arabic folklore, said to be the cosmic bull that stands atop the back of Bahamut (who is actually a whale or fish, the dragon form came from DnD). Kujata possesses 40, 000 horns, legs, eyes, ears, mouths and tongues, and his breathing is the tides itself. On Kujata’s back stands a mountain made of ruby, and upon that stands an angel, who is carrying the world itself.

[skeletonwar]

My favorite summons are actually the Bravely Default ones.
They're mythicized real-life objects, since the real world of the player is a dimension that's in contact with the game world.

The fire summon is a train
The wind summon is a plane
The earth summon is a city
The water summon is a griefing woman
The lightning summon is a clockwork/tv-station
The dark summon is a telephone pole (that gets used like a sword)
The final light summon is uh... just straight up Amaterasu.

[photomatt]

This explains why white mage gets a unicorn mount at lvl 50