Recommended Characters to Invite to your House
Here is our list of recommended characters to recruit for each respective houses in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Visit our recruitment guide to check the recruitment conditions of all characters, including the Garreg Mach Monastery professors and staff.
| Guide on Recruiting Characters | Guide on Increasing Byleth’s Stats and Skills |
Black Eagles
When choosing the Black Eagles house, it is recommended to enhance your team with flying and heavily-armored units. An additional healer is also useful for providing more survivability in battle.
| Character | Notes | Recruitment Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Ingrid |
It is recommended to change Ingrid to a pegasus knight to fill the mobility role in the Black Eagles house. This allows you to focus train Petra as a powerful swordmaster. |
Dexterity: 15 or higher
Flying: D or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Mercedes |
Gives additional survivability to the Black Eagles house along with Dorothea. |
Magic: 15 or higher
Bow: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Raphael |
A defense-focused unit that can compensate for the Black Eagles’ lack of a dedicated tank character aside from Edelgard. |
Strength: 20 or higher
Heavy Armor: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Lysithea |
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Magic: 15 or higher
Faith: B or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) Can also be recruited post-time skip if Byleth chooses to spare her in a mission battle. |
Blue Lions
Additional back line characters should complement the Blue Lions’ abundance in powerful front-liners. Characters who are naturally good at white magic, black magic, and bows are preferred.
| Character | Notes | Recruitment Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Marianne |
The Animal Friend personal ability works exceptionally well with the Blue Lions as there are many mounted units in your team |
Magic: 10 or higher
Riding: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Linhardt |
Can fill the dark mage role in the Blue Lions, as well as a secondary healer. |
Magic: 10 or higher
Reason: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Leonie |
Grants an additional ranged attacker like Ashe for the Blue Lions. |
Strength: 15 or higher
Lance: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Lysithea |
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Magic: 15 or higher
Faith: B or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
Golden Deer
The Golden Deer’s roster should be enhanced with more offensive units. Healers should also be recruited to more easily manage the team’s HP.
| Character | Notes | Recruitment Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Petra |
An excellent offensive character that provides additional damage potential for the Golden Deer. |
Dexterity: 10 or higher
Riding: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Linhardt |
Can fill the dark mage/dark bishop role in the Golden Deer, as well as a secondary healer. |
Magic: 10 or higher
Reason: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Ingrid |
Grants the Golden Deer an additional flying unit like Claude since Marianne is best built up as a healer. |
Dexterity: 15 or higher
Flying: D or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Sylvain |
Depending on how you build up Ignatz and Leonie, you might need an additional mounted unit which Sylvain can fill. |
Charm: 25 or higher
Reason: C or higher Recruitable immediately (if Female Byleth starting from Chapter 2 onwards) |
Other Characters to Consider
| Character | Notes | Recruitment Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Ferdinand |
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Dexterity: 10 or higher
Heavy Armor: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Felix |
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Speed: 15 or higher
Sword: B+ or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
| Ashe |
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Charm: 15 or higher
Lance: C or higher Recruitable immediately (Chapter 2 onwards) |
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Why isn’t Lysithea a priority? Making her a dancer along w/ gremory w/ her sword ability + her just straight up evil magic makes her a force to be reckon w/ especially when I pushed mine to kill bosses and death knight. Straight out of the gate, when she learns her dark magic she just makes him and others into a cake walk. Not just that, she really makes your gameplay easier if you can save scum her stats correctly and pair w/ a healer adjundant. Had her solo Edelgard w/ the +2 magic range staff. Like literally, I only moved her and had the minimal amount of units available. While everyone chilled in the back, she just killed everything without needed massive heals.
Ashe. Ashe is a priority recruit in Golden or Black IMHO because of Lockpick – not relying on the vagaries of Keys and having a dedicated unit that can still pick locks even if he’s promoted to Cavalry. In theory, with enough Keys Lyseth can do the same thing, but Lyseth has more important things to do on the battlefield.
With his focus on Bows, the best probable promotion chain is probably to Bow Knight.
Hi Aaron! We’ve considered adding Ashe on the list due to your points since he is a highly versatile and high utility character. 🙂
Anyone who masters the thief class can have that ability, so the effort spent on Ashe could be better spent getting someone else, IMHO.
Does anyone know if all party members you recruit prior to the timeskip permanent? Because I got Catherine, Cyril and Shamsir during the pre-timeskip on my first Golden Deer playthrough. I know I’ll find out myself eventually, just wondering.
You do
You definitely keep them
Only certain require you to recruit a 2nd time. For instance, Lorenz on the BL route will require you recruit him if you had him in your class pre-timeskip. post-timeskip he is recruitable if Byleth murders him.
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You can recruit him after… he’s dead? Does he join as a spirit, lol?