Summons suck

[Venom65437]

I mean seriously, I find it so funny that Bahamut can come down do like 2567 damage and then Steiner does like 6000.

Am I the only one that rarely uses them? Cause I really think they kinda suck...

[Ultima Shadow]

The more gems you have, the more dammage they deal. If you have 99 Garnets then Bahamut will almost always do 9999.

[Dark Matter]

Yeah, they're suck without the Support Ability ~ Boost.
BTW, I always prefer physical attacks.
It's not easy to collect gems ...

[Vaprice]

Okay you are right but they don't suck....look early on in the game when you have dagger near treno...I got her 3 summons...it was fun getting summons...but the best summon is ARK!!!!! *bright light pops up behind him*

I do prefer with physical attacks much more because thats just how I play games......

[DJZen]

I guess that means Madeen is doomed to always suck?

[Doomgaze]

Bahamut's better than Ark, in my experience.

[Ultima Shadow]

Bahamut's better than Ark, in my experience.

Yes, he is.

[Chris]

I rarely use summons in this game; as opposed to Final Fantasy VIII in which summons are a must.

I've gotten all of the summons...and well they're OK!
Not essential for battles or victory though.

[Del Murder]

Yeah they weren't used as well in this game.

[Dark Dragoon]

Yeah they weren't used as well in this game.

Which is amazing considering that they are so important to the main plot. FFIX was probably the game that most used the summons in the plot(and most displayed the devastating power they supposedly posess. Bahamut VS. Alexander=Awesome). It's a shame really. Atleast they look cool.

[abrojtm]

On my most recent playthrough, I only used one summon, and it was summoning Madeen vs. (SPOILER)Zorn and Thorn (Meltgemini).

And I think FFX has more to do with summons than FFIX.

In short:
Spells=good
Abilities=mostly good
Attacking=mostly good
Eidolons=sub-par

[icemagic]

summons are a wast of time. i use steiner+shock + 9999, freya + dragon heir = 9999, so who needs summons, theres much better moves.

[blue_midget192]

yea i allways tried to use the summons in 9 the same way as in the rest (in a "omg, u killed [insert name of charecter here] now you die! *summons [insert name of summon here] muhahahaha") but it did very little damage which disapointed me

[Danger]

I found the summons, although not over powered, fairly useful in the game, especially against bosses that use protect/shell/reflect... mostly found late in the game. I only powered Zidane's theivery up to about 4200 dam and never used the other "cheap" characters and I found the summon damage on par with spells like flare, sword techs such as climhazzard, flare sword or any physical attack. All in all they cost the same MP and do the same damage, as they should.

And since it's mentioned earlier, I never used any summons in FFVIII because they were all weaker than my physical attacks... guess it depends on how you play the games whether they are useful or not.

[Cleric]

Yea, i thought that the summons in this game were poorly incorparated as well. I wa also p'od that I didn't get to use Alexander. grrrrrrrr.......... but i liked the fact that they put some new summons into FFIX. Yet, who wants to use them when you can have Amarant throw something and do twice as much damage as any summoning.