Summon (XC2)

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A Gorian Buloofo uses its summon Art, Beast Howl

Certain enemies in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Torna ~ The Golden Country can summon additional enemies during battle. Unlike regular reinforcement effects, which will pull nearby existing enemies into battle, summoning will make enemies appear out of thin air. Some enemies can only be fought this way.

Mechanics

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While in battle, enemies may choose to use an Art that summons enemies. Summon Arts may have different behaviors:

• Some summon Arts will always summon a set number of enemies, such as the Wormeater Brog's Sumo Press being guaranteed to summon a Crawler Caterpile.
• Some summon Arts will instead have a certain chance to summon an enemy and will attempt to summon one a certain amount of times, resulting in a variable number of enemies being summoned between each instances the Art is used. A Skeeter Nest may summon its maximum number of Yellow Skeeters, three, one time, and none the next time it uses the Art.
• Some summon Arts are able to summon multiple species of enemies: the Gorian Buloofo can summon Crawler Caterpiles, Mia Pippitos or Anagra Riik. In this case, the distribution of species is random, meaning, provided it summons three enemies, it could summon all three kinds in one Beast Howl.
• Some enemies can have multiple versions of their summon Art, allowing them more flexibility on what enemies they summon. Some can also combine multiple of these versions, such as Mk. VI Margot randomly summoning up to two enemies with its first Transfer Gate then always summoning four Familion Sovereigns with its second version of the Art.

As summons are considered a kind of reinforcement, they can be sealed using a Dark element Blade Combo finisher. While reinforcements are sealed, any attempt by the enemy to summon will fail. Sealing summons this way can thwart some enemies' entire strategies, such as Venal Montgomery using Predation on the enemy it summoned to recover health or Elma using her summons to lock parts of the Party Gauge. This is not applicable to enemies in Torna ~ The Golden Country due to seals being removed.

List of summoned enemies

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Gallery

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  A Skeeter Nest summons enemies with Emergence

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  A Margot Sovereign summons a Phoebus Sovereign with Transfer Gate