Leviathan (Final Fantasy VII)

Leviathan is a Summon Materia in Final Fantasy VII. It summons Leviathan, who performs Tidal Wave, a Water-elemental attack that deals major damage to all enemies.
The Leviathan Materia has the Water element, which can be linked with the Support Materia Elemental. It is one of the few ways to deal Water damage.
Obtaining Leviathan in the PlayStation 4 version earns the Making Waves trophy.
Leviathan was one of the summons to also appear in the original 1996 Aeris demo release where, for a cost of only 40 MP, Aeris could summon Leviathan into battle to use his Tsunami attack, the original name for Tidal Wave.
==Obtained==
The Leviathan Materia is obtained in Wutai Village from Yuffie's sidequest, "Homecoming of a Miserable Daughter". She wins it after defeating the fifth and last pagoda god.
==Stats==
===Growth===
:See the Summon sequence here.
Level	AP required
1 	0
2 	18000
3 	38000
4 	87000
4 	100000
===Ability===
Ability	MP cost	Power	Effect
 	78 	75 	Water-elemental damage to all enemies.
==Use==
Summoning Leviathan costs 78 MP, and causes him to perform Tidal Wave. Tidal Wave deals major Water-elemental damage to all enemies at 4.6875x the base magic damage, which cannot be reflected. It is one of the more powerful summons, and one of the few ways to deal Water damage.
Leviathan deals a large amount of Water-elemental damage. Its main drawbacks are that it has a high MP cost, and that it is wasted against enemies resisting Water. Leviathan is useful in many cases against powerful enemies or groups. Later summons outclass Leviathan in pure damage, but also have greater MP costs, and even larger stat changes. It also remains useful against enemies weak to Water.
The Leviathan Materia can be paired with the Elemental Materia on weapon to deal Water-elemental damage with physical attacks, or with armor to resist, nullify, or absorb Water damage. However, the Materia comes with fairly significant stat changes of -5% HP, but +5% MP, +1 Magic, and +1 Magic def. Though this is a drawback for characters geared towards physical damage, as the HP is detrimental and the stat boosts are not useful, it has no penalty to Strength. This means it can still be useful when given to Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Cid, allowing them to exploit enemies' weaknesses to Water and deal more damage.
==Other appearances==
=== Mobius Final Fantasy ===
The Final Fantasy VII incarnation of Leviathan appeared as a light-elemental Warrior ability card for players to summon during the Final Fantasy VII collaboration events. It allowed player characters to perform the Light Blast Warrior ability, which dealt light damage to enemies within a cone-shaped area of effect.
==Gallery==
Leviathan FFVII Art.jpg|Concept art by Tetsuya Nomura.
==Etymology==
Category:Summons in Final Fantasy VII
Category:Summon Materia in Final Fantasy VII