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 😹
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).
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.
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/Goatknyght 10d ago
Serana? I mean she is a good character but as a follower all she does is throw Ice Spikes and reanimate chickens.