Quote Originally Posted by Chasely View Post
Not necessarily. Rydia was actually a red mage at first. She lost the ability to use healing magic when she focused on her summoning arts in the Land of Monsters. there have also been several instances of summoners who use only healing magic as secondary skills. Like Garnet and Eiko from FF9, and Yuna from FFX.
You missed the point. The way summons work in the console FFs outside of X is that they're basically nukes with artwork instead of an explosion, or a 30-60 second cutscene in the PSX FF games (VII-IX). That's why the whole "feel like a summoner" claim is complete bullocks. Summons in the other FFs are basically pretty and time-consuming nukes.