Summon
There are several types of summoning available in the game:
Summon | Currency | Summon Pool |
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Rare | ||
Once a Day Limited Summon | Lapis | Rare summon unit with increased rate for featured units. |
Featured Summon | Lapis Rare Summon Ticket 4★+ Guaranteed Ticket |
Rare summon unit with increased rate for featured units. |
Rare Summon | Lapis Rare Summon Ticket 4★+ Guaranteed Ticket |
Rare summon unit. |
Standard | ||
Raid Summon | Raid Coin | Event materials, unit, or enhancers. |
Exvius Summon | EX Summon Ticket 4★+ Guaranteed EX Ticket 5★+ Guaranteed EX Ticket |
Rare summon unit. |
10+1 Ticket Summon | 10+1 Summon Ticket | Rare summon unit. |
Vision Summon | Vision Shard | One specific unit. |
Arena Summon | Arena Summon Ticket | Misc. item or enhancers. |
Standard Summon | Friend Point | Standard summon unit. |
Rare SummonEdit
Even though it's called a rare summon, the game itself revolves around getting strong rare summon units to defeat stronger foes.
Whenever there are more than one featured unit of the same rarity, the chance is split evenly among them. Off-banner unit are also split evenly among remaining non-featured units. This kind of split is called a normalized pull, where one unit is not preferred over another. Normalized pull was introduced to the game without any notice starting from the first FFXIII banner in December 2, 2016.
While rare summon units have several rarities available for awakening, their base rarities differs from one to another. Rare summon unit can only be summoned from their base rarities. For example, if you happen to summon a 5 unit from a rainbow crystal, that unit will be a base 5
. This change, commonly called gacha change, happens after the update to version 2.0.0 in February 23, 2017.
Originally, the rainbow rate was 1%, 0.5% for both off-banner and featured, but it was changed to be 2% for off-banner and 1% for featured for a total of 3%. Rainbow rate was tripled in November 24, 2017.
Based on the visible summon rate on the JP version, these are the chances to pull rare summon unit of the following rarities. Note that while Gumi currently publishes the rates for rarity of drops (i.e. Blue, Gold or Rainbow), they do not publish the rates for on-banner and off-banner pulls. Surveys have experimentally shown these rates to be roughly consistent with the rates in JP.
Rare Summon Rate | ||||
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Rarity | Crystal | Featured Unit | Off-banner Unit | Total |
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Blue | 20% | 58% | 78% |
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Gold | 4.75% | 14.25% | 19% |
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Rainbow | 1% | 2% | 3% |
4★+ Guaranteed SummonEdit
You can increase the summoning rate by using a multi-summon for 5,000 or by using a 4★+ Guaranteed Ticket, given from various event and promotion. In case of the multi-summon, only the first summon has an increased rate, while the rest are using the rate seen above.
Based on surveys for 4★+ Guaranteed Summon, featured gold crystal is at half rate from the published rates for JP. However, this has been updated along with rainbow rates in November 24, 2017 to match with the rate on JP
Guaranteed Summon Rate | ||||
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Rarity | Crystal | Featured Unit | Off-banner Unit | Total |
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Gold | 47.5% | 47.5% | 95% |
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Rainbow | 3.75% | 1.25% | 5% |
Crystal UpgradeEdit
Crystal might upgrade to a higher rarity during summoning. However, this is just a cosmetic, and does not impact the summoning rate at all. Even before cracking the crystal open, the unit have been summoned by the game.
There is a small difference in animation when a gold crystal will upgrade into a rainbow crystal. The amount of rays emitted from the crystal before breaking are much less, about half of the usual amount, not enough to cover most of the screen. This difference is only applicable to gold crystal upgrade, and there is no discernable sign when a blue crystal will upgrade.
Summon UpdatesEdit
- December 2, 2016.
- Normalized pull.
- February 23, 2017.
- Gacha change.
- November 24, 2017.
- Rainbow rate increased.
- Featured unit rate on guaranteed summon (+1 or 4★+ Guaranteed Ticket) doubled.
- January 25, 2018.
- Summon rates were published (rarity only, i.e. Blue, Gold or Rainbow).
Featured SummonEdit
5★ TYPE SUMMON (Support Type)Edit
- Units: Noctis, Ramza, Zargabaath, Delita, Ace
- Release Date: 2018-4-23
- Available Until: 2018-4-26
- Summon Simulator
5★ TYPE SUMMON (Attack Type)Edit
- Units: Balthier, Onion Knight, Nyx, Mercenary Ramza, Gilgamesh
- Release Date: 2018-4-20
- Available Until: 2018-4-23
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
- Units: Nameless Gunner Jake, Emperor Shera, Ozetta, Camille, Riley
- Release Date: 2018-4-13
- Available Until: 2018-4-26
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy XEdit
- Units: Yuna, Lulu, Seymour, Wakka
- Release Date: 2018-4-6
- Available Until: 2018-4-19
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy XEdit
- Units: Tidus, Rikku, Wakka
- Release Date: 2018-3-30
- Available Until: 2018-4-12
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
- Units: Lotus Mage Fina, Kunshira, Wadow, Erwin
- Release Date: 2018-3-23
- Available Until: 2018-4-5
- Summon Simulator
International Women's Day (Batch 3)Edit
- Units: Blossom Sage Sakura, Dark Fina, Barbariccia, Fryevia, Trance Terra, Seabreeze Dark Fina
- Release Date: 2018-3-20
- Available Until: 2018-3-22
- Summon Simulator
International Women's Day (Batch 2)Edit
- Units: Ayaka, Veritas of the Light, Lunera, Rem, Marie, Queen
- Release Date: 2018-3-18
- Available Until: 2018-3-20
- Summon Simulator
International Women's Day (Batch 1)Edit
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
- Units: Explorer Aileen, Divine Soleil, Pharaoh Abel
- Release Date: 2018-3-9
- Available Until: 2018-3-22
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy IXEdit
- Units: Beatrix, Eiko, Steiner, Black Waltz 3
- Release Date: 2018-3-2
- Available Until: 2018-3-15
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy XVEdit
- Units: Aranea, Prompto, Cor, Iris
- Release Date: 2018-2-23
- Available Until: 2018-3-8
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
- Units: Yun, Ling, Cupid Artemios, Cupid Luna
- Release Date: 2018-2-16
- Available Until: 2018-2-22
- Summon Simulator
Festival of LoveEdit
- Units: Chow, Ang, Yan, Yuri
- Release Date: 2018-2-9
- Available Until: 2018-2-22
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
- Units: Blossom Sage Sakura, Verun, Cedona, Roselia, Ruggles
- Release Date: 2018-2-2
- Available Until: 2018-2-15
- Summon Simulator
Developer's Choice (Healer)Edit
Developer's Choice (Support)Edit
- Units: Veritas of the Dark, Ramza, Crowe, Desch, Timothy
- Release Date: 2018-1-26
- Available Until: 2018-2-1
- Summon Simulator
Final Fantasy XIIEdit
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
- Units: Pyro Glacial Lasswell, Jiraiya, Kaede, Ohga, Otogiri, Miyuki
- Release Date: 2018-1-12
- Available Until: 2018-1-26
- Summon Simulator
King's KnightEdit
- Units: Ray Jack, Kaliva, Barusa, Toby
- Release Date: 2018-1-5
- Available Until: 2018-1-18
- Summon Simulator