Final Fantasy: 25 Greatest Summons

The three ‘standard’ elements of fire, ice and lightning have been represented by the same summon in almost every Final Fantasy game, but Ramuh is seemingly the least popular of the three of these given that he has been substituted the most.

He didn’t appear in VIII (replaced by Quezacotl), X (by Ixion) or XIII (by the repurposing of the previously non-elemental Odin) and was also omitted from VII Remake, returning only in the recent Yuffie-centric Intermission DLC.

Unlike most of his counterparts, Ramuh isn’t named after a mythological being. He was originally known as Indra, the Hindu god of lightning and storms, in the original version of III but this was presumably changed to avoid pulling too many summons from the same mythos, given that Shiva and Asura (a key part of IV) were also Hindu in origin.

The fact Ramuh has been missing in action in many of the games where summons played a sizable role in the plot has greatly minimised his impact.

He does get a fun role to play in IX to make up for this, however, appearing to Garnet as an old man and challenging her to piece together a story (actually that of Josef from II) to prove that she is worthy of calling upon him, becoming her first eidolon and being as dependable yet unspectacular as ever.