Salamander (summon)

Salamander is a recurring summon of the Fire element, exclusive to Ivalice, and first appearing in Final Fantasy Tactics.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings===
Salamander is the rank 1 Fire Ranged summon. Its normal attack, Fireball, deals Fire damage to one foe.
===Final Fantasy Tactics===
Salamander first appears in Final Fantasy Tactics as a higher level Fire summon. He is learned for 820 Job Points, by the Summoner job class. Salamander performs Wyrmfire, a Fire-elemental attack on all enemies in range. It costs 48 MP to cast and has a speed of 12. Salamander has a 30% chance of randomly being learned in battle by a Summoner who has not yet learned it and is not KO'd by it, or absorbs at least 1 HP worth of damage. Nullifying the damage does not count.
In the original PlayStation version, when summoned, the summoner will sometimes say, "Evil flames, entrust your power to us! Salamander!" This was removed from PSP port, The War of the Lions.
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Salamander from Final Fantasy Tactics appears in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game with a fire-elemental card.
===Mobius Final Fantasy===
==Non-Final Fantasy Appearances==
===Guardian Cross===
Salamander is a common card captured in Berneside Plains. He is a Fire-elemental guardian, and takes the shadow form of a Beast.
==Behind the scenes==
Salamander's original debut was in the Japan-exclusive Super Famicom Quest Corporation title, , serving as an homage to Yasumi Matsuno's previous tactical roleplaying series before joining Square. Like its Final Fantasy counterpart, the Salamander of Tactics Ogre was a fire-elemental summon.
==Etymology==
Category:Summons in Ivalice