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And by best I mean strongest and most versatile that can kill anything and everything including dragons(especially dragons). I remember I liked using that cat from the College because he could fry everyone from a distance but then since he's using magic he falls off later in the game.
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Veggeta X posted...

And by best I mean strongest and most versatile that can kill anything and everything including dragons(especially dragons). I remember I liked using that cat from the College because he could fry everyone from a distance but then since he's using magic he falls off later in the game.

The cat is the only that levels up if I remember correctly
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Probably Ralis Sedarys. You will need to go into the dragon born DLC area and do a quest for him and 11,000 gold. He caps at level 60 and has a lot of perks. Give him a mace and dagger to duel wield with absorb health and stamina so he can duel power attack and not run out of stamina.

http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Ralis_Sedarys

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Whoever can carry the most.
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Jenassa has proper dual-wielding. Teldryn Sero is the only competent vanilla spellblade; good melee fighter with access to Flame Atronach. Ingjard isn't remarkable combat-wise, but levels indefinitely with the player. Marcurio's spells pretty much win the game for you at low to mid levels. Illia would be the best mage, but in vanilla suffers from a bug where you can never rehire her after you dismiss her.
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Tsukasa1891 posted...

Probably Ralis Sedarys. You will need to go into the dragon born DLC area and do a quest for him and 11,000 gold. He caps at level 60 and has a lot of perks. Give him a mace and dagger to duel wield with absorb health and stamina so he can duel power attack and not run out of stamina.

http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Ralis_Sedarys

He also has some above average AI compared to most npcs so he won't run and get knocked over by ice mages spamming that ground traveling spell. Still does run into swinging axes like a moron but that's all ai in the game.
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Google search is saying that vampire girl is the best follower. How does CE feel?
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Serana is only better because waifu and can't die. She is actually fairly shitty as a companion.
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Veggeta X posted...

Google search is saying that vampire girl is the best follower. How does CE feel?

She uses magic which causes a lot of potential bugs (and on consoles or unmodded PC, crashes), and the spell she mostly uses isn't even powerful, she can just cast it endlessly. No point in having her if you're still doing 90% of the damage on most of the enemies she targets, plus all the ones she doesn't target.
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Irony posted...

Serana is only better because waifu and can't die. She is actually fairly shitty as a companion.

The butt devastation from people mad you'll never get to marry her
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Veggeta X posted...

Google search is saying that vampire girl is the best follower. How does CE feel?

At face value Serana's pretty strong, but almost all of her spells are AoE; thanks to Skyrim's shitty friendly-fire mechanics or lack thereof, she'll end up inadvertedly starting fights with guards and bystanders all the time (fights that you can't stop unless you've got a supercharged Calm spell to hit everyone at once).

She also follows the Vampire-class protocol of reanimating anything in sight and gunking up the game world with ash piles. Ash piles from regular npcs disappear, but ash piles from permanent corpses, random encounters, or pre-dead npcs will never despawn.

Finally, she's exceptionally chatty on the level of Mjoll, Erandur, and Hirelings, but she furthers this potential irritation with a lot of self-contradicting dialogue. 'The sun's killing me, let's find a cave.' *goes into cave* 'I've spent enough time underground, thanks.'

Tl;dr. Love her or hate her as a storyline character, she's honestly more annoyance than she's worth as a follower. The only reason I kept her around in Oldrim was that there's a rather easy exploit in which you can have her as a permanent second follower while still being able to recruit other people.
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So then who is the best?
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The one guy we already mentioned from the db dlc
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My fave is the chick from the Shrine of Azura. I forget her name (I think it's Iinith or something) but she has a ton of great magic, including that cheap-ass spell where you shoot a giant wall-penetrating blizzard that damages/slows all in its path. Great for getting in some Volendrung action, etc.
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