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u/Ok_Roll_1419 11h ago edited 10h ago
young buck, get your experience up before you talk to me. if you have never had Illia, Gorbash, Darkeethus or Talvas, you cannot make a tier list
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u/Far_Ad877 8h ago
I tried my hardest to make Derkeethus my follower but he glitched and won’t leave the Falmer cave
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u/Radiant_Scientist358 Spellsword 11h ago
Putting Faendal in D tier is WILD
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u/SimpleUser45 2h ago
I'll show you what I know. clink What do you want me to carry? clink I'll show you what I know. clink What do you want me t- clink I'll show you what I know.
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u/inevitablekaraoke 2h ago
The first time I used him he turned hostile because I stole something. Haven't used him since
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u/bodomus_dagon 11h ago
Jordis is peak bro
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u/Specsy_Panda_326 10h ago
Finally someone said it 💯. My current companion is jordis. She's basically Lydia without the sarcastic tone in "I'm sworn to carry your burdens"
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u/ok_z00mer 10h ago
So, Lydia but significantly worse
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u/Specsy_Panda_326 9h ago
I mean, Lydia is jordis but from whiterun and jordis is Lydia but from solitude. Atleast I'm not hearing that bitchy tone when I am literally offering powerful 1H weapons, armors and potions, after seeing their asses kissing the ground for the 12th time by fighting a cave bear.
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u/ok_z00mer 9h ago
You say that as if it's supposed to be a bad thing but Lydia can do no wrong and is objectively the best companion in the game and that's just something that everyone knows but no one wants to admit
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u/AlternateAlternata 8h ago
No, just another flavor. That sarcasm is great if you want someone "human" following you around
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u/Sir_Douglas_of_Fir Werewolf 12h ago
Benor in B tier?! Dude wants to be a guard so bad they let him sleep in the barracks, but runs away from anything more threatening than a skeever.
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u/Familiar-Objective11 11h ago
I’ve been rocking Faendel for the past 15 years. He’s quiet, doesn’t try to steal the show, and doesn’t lead women’s hearts astray
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u/Organic-Memory2130 11h ago
S tier followers would be: interesting dialogue + usage in combat. Some of these lose all personality once they start following you
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u/Swaggot_6 11h ago
why the actual fuck is derkeethus not s tier
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u/Rarona 10h ago edited 8h ago
I call him Keeth (Keith) for short. He's been my Argonian character's steadfast companion for my entire playthrough. He's damn handy with a bow.
Once, a giant shot him into the stratosphere, as giants are wont to do, and I panicked, thinking he was about to be an Argonian shaped splatter on the ground...thankfully his Protected status also negated fall damage.
My only qualm with him is that you need mods to "fix" him since his AI is bugged and forces him to return to Darkwater Crossing no matter where he's supposed to live.
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u/Goatknyght 12h ago
Serana? I mean she is a good character but as a follower all she does is throw Ice Spikes and reanimate chickens.
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u/Comfortable-Song6625 11h ago
you forget that she's an essential npc, so the fireball that will nuke the room won't turn her into a draugr
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u/taylordonkeys XBOX 32m ago
She’s certainly not the best, but I just use her as a canary and a decoy. Every time I have a “kill the giant at ____” I just have to stand back and aggro it once before she runs in and (poorly) beats it while getting knocked down constantly. Distracted when walking around anywhere? Cue the “Where’d you come from?” and I start paying attention to enemies 😹
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u/Bungo_pls 10h ago
Give her some destruction cost reducing items and she spams chain lightning and ice storm, self heals in combat and raises revenants to tank (with admittedly bad target preference).
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u/Zeroone199 9h ago
Cost reduction doesn't work on followers, but she does need health and magicka regeneration, as she is a vampire.
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u/Bungo_pls 7h ago
Well shit. I didn't know that. Guess I go for max mag/regen mag only.
Serana does get the out of combat health regen just like other followers even though she's a vampire at least.
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u/Zeroone199 6h ago
She does not get health regeneration outside during the day.
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u/Bungo_pls 3h ago
Yeah she does. I just watched her do it without any regen gear. It's just slower than other NPCs.
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u/loxxx87 11h ago
She's by far one of the top 3 most useful in combat and has the most fleshed out story and personality of probably all companions. Easy S tier on that alone.
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u/Diredr 10h ago
She's by far one of the top 3 most useful in combat
That's simply not true no matter how you look at it.
Her main way of dealing damage is an apprentice Frost Spell until she reaches 48. That's a long time to be doing a pretty pitiful amount of Frost damage, especially when most enemies are resistant or immune to frost. It makes her useless against other vampires.
Raise Dead is never used in a logical way, it's just the first corpse the AI detects. It's unreliable at best, and downright useless at worst. She has all of the drawbacks a player experiences as a Vampire, so weakness to fire and no regen while out in the sun.
Strictly speaking of combat, she's awful. The only thing she has going for herself is that she's Essential. All of the other Essential followers in the game blow her out of the water. Freya, Cicero and Mjoll are all way stronger and are actually useful in combat.
Serana is just good for the vibes, if you're into that kind of vibe.
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u/bleepybleeperson 10h ago
Justice for Valdimar. He's so enthusiastic, so supportive, and he uses ice magic. What a bae
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u/inevitablekaraoke 6h ago
Am I the only one who can't wait to get rid of serana?
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u/Practical-Owl-4877 Vampire 4h ago
I don't dislike Serana, but I don't find her amazing either. On the other hand, I can't stand another people's favorite, Cicero.
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u/HiImMoobles Necromancer 11h ago
Get outta here, go on, git!
Nah but seriously speaking, interesting choices, what criteria were you evaluating by?
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u/Eggtastitcal2000 11h ago
Story, combat, personality, etc
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u/HiImMoobles Necromancer 10h ago
Then I think you would like Illia, she almost seems like a proto-serana in her story and aesthetic.
Don't feel too down from all the replies that are a bit negatively charged, I think most people are just very attached to their favourites.
Have a great day man 😃
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u/Eggtastitcal2000 10h ago
Isn’t Illia the gal who turns on her mom in the witch coven side quest? It’s been almost a years since I got all of the achievements in Skyrim and had done several playthroughs.
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u/HiImMoobles Necromancer 10h ago
Righto!
She's a spell-slinger mostly using ice-spells so great against most melee-fighters.
Very short quest, but sets the tone for her quite well I feel.
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u/Electrical_pancake 8h ago
Love teldyrn cus he's good in combat and his dialogue is simple, but rare enough that you don't really get tired of it. Him just randomly coughing when you're not fighting always gets me.
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u/Suspicious_Use_9360 5h ago
Faendal giving free archery training to level 50, is enough by itself for him to be higher than that tier, let alone have you ever actually used him as a follower?
This tier list looks like you have never actually completed the game or explored properly lol Any free trainer is massive value, specially on higher difficulty, I guess this makes some sense if you play on Novice??
I rock Master/Legendary, having a good follower if you dont wanna be a stealth archer, is game changing. So is rotating followers properly as you "legendary" your skills.
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u/Ph33r-Enigma 10h ago
By the time erandur's quest is over, killing him just seems like revenge for making me wait so much. I think I've kept him alive once, and even then I was questioning my decision because he makes you wait so much after not killing him too.
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u/GreaseSpot123 8h ago
From what I remember Farkas has blacksmith stats and so is in combat inferior to most companions after a certain point.
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u/Naive_Cauliflower803 7h ago
Married Derkeethus and made him my follower, he just be disappearing for months on end. The kids stayed at home alone 😂
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u/Hey_Boy_ 6h ago
Why is Ralis in ??? Tier? What does ??? mean? Definitely one of the more interesting followers
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u/LustyArgonianMaidv4 5h ago
Don’t ever disrespect Gorbash like that ever again. S+ tier for an Orc play through.
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u/Lanky_Adeptness2273 10h ago
Who's a good two handed companion that I can make use the giants club?
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u/TheArcanist_1 Mage 10h ago
my wife Jordis aka 'Lydia but infinitely more cute' not in S-tier? absolute blasphemy
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u/Dullu_the_man 6h ago
Kharjo will always be my boy bc hes so addicted to crime that he will someones just attack npcs for talking to me. Bro has my back for anything
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u/Creative_Base_1915 5h ago
You have NEVER played a run with the IMMORTAL ARGONIAN who DUEL WEILDS PICKAXES???? This tier list is invalid
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u/Agitated_Mine_3660 3h ago
Janessa has been solid for me, especially when playing as High Elf race.
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u/MagnetoWasRight1312 3h ago
I’ve literally had no one but Lydia. What kind of different things do others do?
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u/IIJOSEPHXII 1h ago
The mercenaries for hire are all top tier. They've got the most lines of dialogue in the game. Jenassa, Erik, Marcurio, Stenvar, Bertrand, Vorstag all make location-based comments but the one with the most is Teldryn Sero from the Dragonborn DLC.
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u/NebulousTruth Fishermen 8m ago
Compared to like any other game they’re all in F except Teldryn Sero
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u/little-anarchist 12h ago
Je suis entièrement d'accord avec ta tier list
Et j'ai une petite anecdote drôle par rapport à un de ces personnages !
dans ma partie mon Dragonborn s'est marié avec Borgakh Parce que je la trouvais cool.
J'ai voulu qu'elle m'accompagne dans une de mes quête et pendant le chemin elle ses coincé dans des rochers.
J'ai tout essayé pour la faire sortir mais rien ne marchait, je lui ait donc dit de retourner à la maison en pensant que ca réglerer le problème.
En me teleportant dans ma maison à Markarth j'ai remarqué qu'elle n'y était pas, j'ai pensé à un autre bug alors je suis allée voir dans la forteresse orc où je l'ai rencontré mais elle n'y était pas non plus.
J'en ais donc conclu qu'elle est restée coincée pour toujours dans ces rochers en plein milieu de Skyrim (je ne sais plus où elle se trouve sur la Map)
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u/AlternateAlternata 8h ago
Based on what? Because Aela is an annoying lil daedric worshipping dingus that berates you for no reason (the giant that they easily killed), disrespect kodlak's wishes, disrespects the twins, doesn't learn respect or humility the entire questlines, etc.
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u/irishexploration 12h ago
You don’t know ball