Summons
About Summons
SSR Summons | SR Summons | R Summons | N Summons
The legendary beings capable of being called during battle to provide assistance are referred to as summons. From mere bats, to primal beasts like Yggdrasil, to the supreme dragon Bahamut, there are a great number of entities to summon. Summons are an important gameplay aspect of Granblue Fantasy.
Auras
Main Summon
Summons possess effects known as auras, which are granted when the summon is assigned as a main summon or a support/friend summon. Aura effects can affect each elements' character stats, elemental ATK, weapon skills, and more. A summon can be uncapped up to three times to make the aura effect more powerful. Some summons can be uncapped more than three times, which will upgrade the original aura effect or acquire an additional effect, making it considerably more powerful.
Sub Summons
Sub summons can be called during battle and provides ATK and HP to the party. Summons, compared to weapons, tend to have greater values of HP, so having strong and leveled summons will greatly affect your party's HP values.
Sub Auras
Some summons also provide a sub aura which takes effect only if they are not equipped as the main summon. This means they can be equipped either in the four Sub Summon slots or in the two Sub Aura Summon slots. Same sub aura effects don't stack. Only the aura with the greatest effect will take effect.
Sub Aura Summon Slots
Sub aura summon slots are unlocked at rank 101. Only summons with sub auras can be equipped to these slots. Unlike summons equipped in the sub summon slots, which provide sub auras, calls, and stats, summons here only provide their sub auras. They can't be called during battle, and their ATK and HP stats will not be added to the party's.
Aura Colors
When viewing the support/friend summon list or a summon's summary page, the color of the aura's text is determined by how much it is uncapped.
- Black aura
- 0★ to 2★ uncapped
- Orange aura
- 3★ uncapped
- Purple aura
- 4★ uncapped
- Blue aura
- 5★ uncapped
- Red aura
- 6★ full Transcendence
Calls
Summons can also be called, dealing damage to the enemy, or inflicting debuffs, or buffing the party, or some combination of those three effects. Summoning has three requirements:
- The Main Character must be alive and active in the front line, unless Lyria in the party. If Lyria is in your party, she must be alive and active in the front line. The summoning conditions for the Main Character no longer apply.
- No other summons have been called earlier in the turn. If bringing Lyria OR putting 4★ YatimaSub AuraCan call 2 summons per turn. in sub summon slot, two summons can be summoned per turn.
- The summon must be ready to be summoned.
Call Damage
Call damage depends on the summon itself and the Main Character's stats.
- "Quantifier" damage: In-game call descriptions that use the quantifiers "Massive", "Big", and "Medium" all deal a relatively small amount of damage, but ignores the foe's DEF. This damage cannot be raised significantly even with buffs on the MC or debuffs on the foe.
- "Multiplier" damage: In-game call descriptions that use a percentage multiplier (e.g. 500%) means its damage is based on the MC's skill specs. Weapon Skills that boosts skill specs can also affect the call's damage. 1-hit buffs on the MC, such as Sharp ATK Up (1 time)ATK is sharply boosted
, are consumed upon dealing this type of call damage. - Some calls don't actually deal any call damage and therefore don't mention either quantifier in their call description. Plain damage also falls outside of the main types, though this only applies in a few cases, most notably Michael (Summon).
Call damage does not count as skill damage even if the damage is affected by skill specs.
What affects summon cooldowns?
- Summon cooldowns at the start of battle are affected by the Main Character's main weapon rarity and element. Any summons that match your main weapon's element have their starting cooldown reduced by 1 to 3 turns depending on the rarity of the weapon.
- SSR main weapon, same element: 3-turn cut to summon cooldowns
- SR main weapon, same element: 2-turn cut to summon cooldowns
- R main weapon, same element: 1-turn cut to summon cooldowns
- Having a matching weapon element only affects a summon's cooldown at the start of battle. It does not affect the cooldown after a summon's call.
- Purple crystals dropped from monsters during battle and side-scrolling areas in quests will randomly reduce one summon's cooldown.
- Certain summons can only be called once per battle, such as Shiva (Summon).
- Some summons have a built-in cooldown reduction for their first call besides other factors, chiefly the Arcarum Summons.
- Bellringer Angel is able to end the cooldown for another summon, but it has no effect on one-time summons or itself.
Main Summon Cooldown Properties
An equipped Main Summon has a bonus to its starting cooldown based on its uncap level. Each uncap from 1★ to 3★ will cut the initial cooldown by 1 turn. If the summon is 4★ or higher, the summon will be usable on turn 1. This bonus does not affect the cooldown after being called or if it is not a Main Summon.
Quick Summon
By setting a quick summon from the Party screen, a Quick Summon Call button will be available in battles using that party. This button will call the quick summon with a single press.
The On/Skip button for C.A. animations and the Quick Summon button can be toggled between on the Screen settings of the battle menu.
Combo Calls
When in a raid battle, opening a summon confirmation pop-up directly after another player calls a summon will lock their summon in for you as a combo call.
Once a combo call is locked in, its details will display in the confirmation pop-up, and it will persist until you either call a summon to trigger the combo or tap the disengage combo call button. Taking turns or opening the summon confirmation pop-up for a different summon will not break the lock.
Each instance of a summon call can only be locked in by a single player. Disengaging the summon does not return the summon to the combo pool for other players.
- Combo calls deal 1.2 times more damage than normal calls and activate effects that aren't the main instance of damage for both summons.
- Only one player can chain the effects of another call; as soon as the combo is performed, the next player's call will start a new combo.
- The effects the combo call depends on the summon and its uncap ★.
- A comboed 0★-3★ summon will always grant the 0★ effects.
- Most of the time, comboing with a 4★ summon will grant the 4★ effects. However, some exceptions exist.
- You cannot combo call with another player's Non-comboable Summons.
- The number of hits a combo call is based on your own summon regardless of the other player's summon. The combo call will show the other summon's call animation, but it does not affect the actual number of hits.
Support Summons
For most quests, you will be able to select a support summon (sometimes called a "friend summon") that gives your party a boost with its aura. Auras from a support summon stack with your own Main Summon's aura in most cases. Lists of support summons from both Friends and random players will be displayed before starting a quest.
A support summon's call is usable on the first turn regardless of its uncap.
Certain quests, event battles, and Fate Episodes do not allow you to select a support summon.
In Co-op, support summons can only be chosen from among the other players in the same room, and will not award rupies. If playing Co-op quests solo, no support summon will be chosen. When fighting raids (but not co-op quests) in co-op rooms, it is also possible to select summons from the standard selection of Friends and random players by choosing the "Friend/Other" tab when selecting a support summon, even when solo.
In Arcarum: The World Beyond and Replicard Sandbox, no support summons are available for any battle.
Friend Support Summons
Players on your Friend List will be prioritized at the top of summon lists. A friend's support summons will appear in the lists for a period of time after that friend logs in.
You can use a friend's summon up to thirty consecutive times, with up to ten minutes between each use. However, if a different summon is chosen the previous friend summon will stop appearing for a period of time.
Setting Support Summons
Your support summons can be set from the Profile screen's Support Summons section. Those summons will be listed on other players' Select a Summon screen, and you will receive rupies when they are selected.
Every player can assign up to fourteen different summons as support summons for other players to choose. This can be done from the Profile screen. Whenever a summon is chosen as a support summon, that summon's owner receives a small rupie bonus at the next day's reset (with the exception of Unite and Fight event periods).
Summons set as support cannot be sold, reduced, or used for upgrades. If both support summon slots under an element is left blank in a friend's profile, the system will automatically pull the current main summon from that friend to populate the slot instead. If the friend's current main summon cannot be set as a support summon, the friend support will be absent in that specific element list but will remain present under the other elements.
The Misc. tab is intended for utility options like White Rabbit, Kaguya (Summon) or summons that are otherwise generally useful regardless of element.
Summon Series
- Providence Summons
- Genesis Summons
- Omega Summons
- Optimus Summons
- Demi Optimus Summons
- Archangel Summons
- Arcarum Summons
- Epic Summons
- Carbuncle Summons
- Dynamis Summons
- Upgrader Summons
- Cryptid Summons
- Six Dragons Summons
Plus Marks
- Main article: Plus Mark
Summons can be upgraded up to +99 using Summon Plus Mark, which can be obtained by several methods.