Originally Posted by
tyckspoon
(This is another thing Historia Crystals are good for, incidentally - they're instant-cast and available right from the start of the fight, unlike Magicites that need charge time before you can summon. Since we're talking about Magicites, this can be really helpful for things like pushing Shadow Dragon through his Black Fang and avoiding having to deal with his instant-kill attack altogether, or just generally needing to be able to precisely apply a known quantity of damage at a particular part of an AI cycle.)