Black Mage Raise Ability

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I didn't use XII, or XIII since the mechanics of summoning were vastly different than that of the archetypal Summoner from the rest of the games and more importantly doable by any character in the main cast and not limited to a select "job. Maybe instead of making a deliberate effort to be pompous you could realize I never said they were only offensive. I never said there were absolutely no support summons in the game. My point, again, is that any support/raising capabilities they have by virtue of summoning are completely independent from White or Black Magic which again, is the case in all the games I listed except for 3 or 4 you and Mr. Fish over there just can't seem to read and understand simple sentences. And wow, I didn't mention Carbuncle the one staple support summon since V my bad, don't fly off the handle about it.

As for XII's espers and their "numerous supportive magicks" (a flat out lie beyond the one healing spell each one of them has so that the summoner doesn't die and the summon isn't wasted) there's only one summon with any support spell and that's Zodiark with Hastega.

As for XIII's eidolons, them casting Arise is not damning evidence of how amazingly powerful Summoners are at Raising, that's beyond doubt a QoL feature since you trade the eidolon for two other party members, one of which was likely the one that healed you, otherwise literally every other ability that eidolons used while not in Gestalt mode is offensive or for tanking (Hecatoncheir and Alexander).

It's clear that you don't know what you're talking about.

Your list is paltry compared to the sheer amount of damage summons, as was Lambdas which again, only came from VI. But again that's not what my point was, since you guys keep missing it.

Yeah you guys keep cherry picking and ignoring the entire picture, which is that SMN is far more focused on damage than support and/or raising and, again, aren't going to be as good at it as RDM. And how many times do I have to remind you that Phoenix is not a White Magic spell? Not to mention anything like Phoenix doesn't stand a chance of being developed since its effect is Healer LB3 level.