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andylt posted...

Noctis starts summoning Leviathan in random battles in the city, so I guess now's a good time to ask what exactly the deal is with summons. Until a few days ago I had only ever summoned Ramuh, to the point where I assumed he was the only one we could actually get. Then I did that XIV quest and Garuda started to pop in, and now in Insomnia Leviathan shows up for the first time! Sadly her animation isn't all that good compared to Ramuh's. But is there a location trigger with these or something? I haven't ever gotten Bahamut, Shiva or even Titan despite him being the first one we acquired!

Summons in XV are really weird - they're largely conditional but also partly location-based. Titan for example only really shows up if your party members are down and stay down, which... doesn't really ever happen! Ramuh, Garuda and Shiva have the easiest conditions so outside of freak occurances those three are mostly the only ones you'll ever see. (Ramuh is battle length, Garuda is Noct in danger with no party members down, Shiva is literally anything but is rarer than the other two AFAIK)

Summons are a bit more likely to show up when they're in places where it makes sense for them to be, i.e. Titan gets a boost on flat plains and Leviathan near water, but it never really made any of them notably more reliable in my experience.

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