Summoner

Races

This class can only be played with the Lyn.

Cats

The introductory quest Master Hong's Summons goes a little bit different for Summoners than for other classes. At the end of the quest, the player is prompted to choose a cat follower/familiar from among 5 options.

Toggle for the Cats!

	Feisty "You ready to fight? I'm ready to fight. You ready to kick some tail? I'm ready to kick some tail! Let's conquer the world... together! Purr! Meow! Pick me, and you can name me whatever you want. As long as it's ferocious!"
	Fido "I don't know you, but I already love you! I'll be the most loyal Familiar ever! Please pick me! My name is Fido, but you can call me whatever you want. Can we play fetch? Ruff! Uh, I mean meow."
	Fifi "I'm trying to look my best for you, Summoner. This is my first time to your realm! Are you nervous? I am. Oh, please pick me. You seem nice, purr. Are you really going to make me your Familiar? I'm so excited! Take your time naming me. Purr, meow!"
	Fluffy "I'm very experienced in the ways of your world, Summoner! In return for my services, I ask only for your trust... and a few fish! Will you bond with me, Summoner? Please pick a name that suits you... and me-ow!"
	Frisky "So we're going to learn martial arts and fight for good, right? I guess I can do that between naps. My name's Frisky, but name me whatever you want."

Playstyle

Solo

Using their cats as a tanker that attracts all sort of damage from mobs and bosses, Summoners can stay in a safe distance from afar and dish out damage to their heart's contents

Along with their tanking cats, Summoners also boast great self-healing, nice amount of CC/Double CC skills for self-rescue when in pinch, and be able to stealth away for a good while when the situation become dire.

Being a ranged-attacker, Summoners have easier time to avoid boss' deadly melee-ranged AoE in some contents, such as Soulstone Plains.

Grouping

Summoners have diverse utilities to offer to their group.

When the group has no real tanker like Kung Fu Master and Blade Master, or have one but cannot do their role properly, and the aggro is upon the strongest damage dealer in the group, Summoners can use their cats to force taunt, temporarily alleviating the tanking pressure for a good while.

If used timely, Summoner's root skill can keep mobs in place, waiting for being slaughtered by AoE (Area of Effect) while the cat taunt is in cooldown, or even stall a boss from doing his mechanic, giving free DPS time to achieve some difficult achievements.

Summoners also offer healing or Focus regeneration. The first is preferred during random grouping in cross-server dungeons, to keep your party members alive. The latter is to offer a boost in DPS of some classes, when you're confident about your group's performance.

Next is Crowd Control. Except for Knock Back, Summoners can do double Daze, Stun and Knock Down with ease, but they need their cat to not be CCed first in order to execute these CCs. Additionally, Summoner is the only class that can have a boss pinned for free DPS time with their cats, without sacrificing their own DPS contribution like Destroyer and Blade Dancer.

Finally, Summoner is also known for party-saving. They can send their cat to aid the revival of a dead/chi-recovering party member, protect a Chi-recovering member from being killed by upcoming attack, and stealth a whole party from a deadly AoE. In case of bad luck where Summoner is killed, as long as their cat is alive, they can do self-revive, or even whole-party revive (the latter comes with long cooldown).

PvP

Summoner is a strong class against inexperienced players, where you often meet them in Lower Gold metal rating. Self-healing, stealth, being able to CC the opponent even when being CCed, and simple damage-dealing mechanic make the class newbie-friendly, and a headache to players who are not used to deal with them. This also make Summoner a good class to farm Zen Bean for extra income and other necessary goodies.

However, when facing experienced players in Upper Gold metal rating, Summoner starts to fall behind, due to the lack of escape skills, and their great reliance on the cat, which is often killed, rendered useless, or have its auto-attack taken advantage in high-tier matches. Participating to such matches mean that you will have to learn how to control and protect your own cat, in addition of knowing how to handle your enemy.

Skills

LMB
	Rosethorn	Inflicts Wind/Earth damage.
	Butterfly Swarm	Second attack following after Rosethorn. Inflicts Wind/Earth damage.
	Footloose	Decreases the Chi recovery time of the summoner or a party member by 6 seconds.
	Helping Paw!	Resurrect an unconscious ally.
	Awakened Rosethorn	Soulburn version of Rosethorn. Inflicts Wind/Earth damage with special effects
	Awakened Butterfly Swarm	Soulburn version of Butterfly Swarm, following after Rosethorn Inflicts Wind/Earth damage with special effects
RMB
	Rumblebees	Inflicts wind damage.
	Sunflower	Inflicts earth damage.
	Super Sunflower	Inflicts earth damage.
	Entangle	Knocks down an enemy.
F
	Doom 'n' Bloom	Deals earth damage over time to enemies in an area around the targeted enemy.
	Retreat	Escape from knockdown, daze, and unconsciousness.
	Flying Nettles	Decreases movement speed and deals damage over time to enemies in an area around the targeted enemy.
	Guard Duty	Commands the summoner's familiar to take damage in place of the summoner while the summoner is in Chi Recovery mode.
	Farewell	The summoner's familiar sacrifices itself in order to resurrect the summoner along with any other unconscious party members in range.
	Enhanced Seed Shroud	On a successful counter of an attack, the summoner and party members gain stealth for 6 seconds and resists damage and status effects for 1 seconds.
	Ride Dragon Pulse	Rides a nearby Dragon Pulse to its natural outlet.
Tab
	Wish	Resurrects the summoner's familiar.
	Lunge	Commands the summoner's familiar to charge the target.
	Power Pounce	The summoner's familiar pins the enemy and inflicts damage when the pin is over.
	Kapow!	The cat attacks the target that is stunned, dazed,grabed, or grappled.
1
	Grasping Roots	Summon roots around the target which snare enemies and deal earth damage.
	Weed Whack	Summon roots around the target which snare the target and deal earth damage. Also deal additional earth damage-over-time
	Tag Team	When the summoner is knocked down the familiar will switch places with the summoner, allowing the summoner to escape.
	Second Wind	The summoner escapes from grapples and grabs and retreats 10 meters.
2
	Thorn Strike	Inflicts earth damage.
	Backstep	The summer recovers from knockdown or unconsciousness and retreats 10 meters.
3
	Petal Storm	The summoner resists ranged attacks and status effects while preventing nearby enemies from blocking or evading.
4
	Seed Shroud	On a successful counter of an attack, the summoner gains stealth for 6 seconds, 4 focus, and resists damage and status effects for 1.5 seconds.
	Briar Patch	Inflicts earth damage and decreases movement speed of the targeted enemy and nearby enemies.
Z
	Huzzah!	The summoner sacrifices some HP to heal the familiar over time.
X
	True Friend	Transfers HP from the familiar to the summoner.
	Headbutt	The familiar knocks a grappled enemy unconscious.
C
	Strike	The familiar strikes the target with its hammer.
	Clawnado	The familiar claws the enemies consecutively.
	Hammer Spin	The familiar spins with its hammer, damaging nearby enemies.
V
	Anklebiter	The summoner's familiar knocks down any nearby enemies in front of it.
	Surprise Gift	The summoner's familiar plants a bomb that can be denoted at will.
	Bomb Away!	The summoner's familiar calls down a missile strike after 8s.
	Uppercut	The familiar launches the target into the air.
	Playtime	The familiar inflicts damage on an airborne target and resists damage and status effects during use.
Q
	Crouching Tiger	The summoner's familiar curls up, reducing the damage it receives for some time.
E
	Beckon	The familiar returns to the summoner's side and is cured of status effects.
A
	Dash Left	Move 8m to the left.
D
	Dash Right	Move 8m to the right.
W
	Sprint	Run swiftly across the ground.
	Water Dash	Dash swiftly across the water.
	Air Dash	Soar quickly through the air.
	Wall Dash	Dash quickly across a wall.
	Surge	Sprint following a dive.
S
	Evade	Move backwards 10m.
	Dive	Descend quickly towards the ground.
Space
	Glide	Glides slowly through the air.
	Vault	Leap over obstacles.
None
	Paw	The familiar slashes the enemy it is attacking, causing bleed.
	Swipe	Following Paw, the familiar slashes the enemy it is attacking, causing bleed.
	Heavy Swipe	Following Swipe, the familiar slashes the enemy it is attacking, causing bleed.
	Roundabout	Following Swipe, the familiar spins a giant hammer round and round, damaging and causing bleed on enemies around it
	Alley Cat	Increase's the familiar's damage.
	House Cat	Increases the familiar's defense.
	Swoosh	The familiar moves behind the target.

Trivia

• In the G-Star 2009 Trailer, a prototype Summoner was shown at the beginning but never revealed as being one until the Korean CBT3.
• The prototype Summoner was quite different from the current Summoner. The class used to be somewhat dark-themed class, using a giant brush to summoning circles on the air, and summon a Thrall-like dark creature to fight.
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  Summoner with a brush-staff

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  A prototype Summoner was drawing a dark summoning circle

• Later, the dark creature is replaced by a cute bipedal cat, brightening the class' theme. The brush is also replaced by the staff, though there are still a few staff skins in the game that resemble to a brush.
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  The brush-staff skin is still existing in the game

Media

Screenshots

The following screenshots were taken from the character creation screen at NA launch in 2016.

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  Lyn Summoner Female

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  Lyn Summoner Male

Videos

Summoner Overview - West Launch	Summoner Blade and Soul PvE Rotation

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