By giving potential recruits gifts or items they’ve lost, you can help increase bonds enough to at least get a C Support rank with them - which can lower the threshold needed to recruit them. Of course, you also may want a character just so you can build up a relationship with them - which is fine, but if they want you to have a skill that’s way outside your wheelhouse, you should also look into building a relationship with them early.

You should also check to see if the skills or stats a student is looking for are close to another student that you can also impress, like Petra and Marianne both looking for something with Riding skill. You can also earn a bit of authority and faith skill experience when taking part in choir activities. Both Dorothea and Ignatz, who can fill mage and archer roles, admire Authority, which Byleth will learn naturally. However, not all characters necessarily want you to have skills that mirror their own, which can work to your advantage. Think hard about what your team is lacking, and if it’s worth side tracking your own skills to get someone to fill that slot. Many students are impressed by skills that they themselves are proficient in, like Felix and swords. When picking students to try and recruit, try for what makes sense. This means you’ll have to carefully choose which skills to invest in, as you won’t have enough time to increase them all, and you also don’t want to make your character a jack-of-all trades who excels in nothing. Characters like Manuela, Seteth, Rhea, and even Jeralt can all train you in various skills - but each will take up one activity point during exploration, and each faculty member can only teach you once per free day. In order to get more levels in skills quickly, you’ll want to invest in Faculty Training when exploring the Monastery.

Your own character doesn’t get to raise their own skill levels as much as their students, as you’ll be the one teaching, and skill experience in battle is fairly limited - but you’ll need to level up in battle to start getting better stats. There are a few exceptions to this rule: You can’t recruit the leaders of opposing houses - or the characters that serve as their retainers: Dedue and Hubert, while Hilda cannot join the Black Eagles. Some students may even request a skill as high as B - which appears to be tied to skills that your character already has an affinity for - like Swords and Authority. Most students prefer you to have at least a C rank in the skill they like, and anywhere from 15-20 point in the specified stat.

Each student has different interests - but regardless of which, you shouldn’t expect to recruit them right away. Of course, they won’t really show interest until you have enough of a certain skill and stat. Once you complete the first few chapters and start getting a feel for life at the monastery, you’ll find that when talking to students of other houses, you have the option to recruit them to your side. Sure, there doesn’t seem to be a limit - but there is a limit to how many units you can deploy in a mission - which generally ranges from 9 to 12 over the course of the story. Luckily, there’s a way to remedy this situation - as most students you encounter can be recruited to your team - but only if you know how to impress them.īefore we get into things, it’s important to remember that while it may sound like fun to try and recruit as many characters as you can to your house, it may not be the best idea. You found a house you want to join, but there’s a character from another house that you really want on your team too. There’s a common conundrum that everyone will face in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

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