Lydia keep using her bow

[Kaynos]

It's not even visible in her inventory, the only weapons in her inventory is a sword and a shield. Whenever i attack an ennemy she just stay at range shooting with that bow. How can i fix this ?

[Shellbie]

Companions change weapons depending his distance with the enemy.They will also prioritize the highest dps weapon you have given them.

[ifoolb]

I'd rather like her to stay that way if I were you, or she takes the risk being hit by me. She does have a default invisible hunting bow. Since what weapon she uses is determined by the range, maybe you can try giving her a better bow as I remember she will run out of arrow with bows other than her default bow. But she may also have infinite irow arrows. If so perhaps you have to resort to console command to remove her bow.

[DPMR]

I am going to asume you are not a warror. Lydia's skills advance with warror builds, if you are not advancing Heavey armor she will not run into battle but hold back a bit and fight with her arrows.
I have notice this to be more true with SE. Lydia also is not aware of enemys coming up behind her most of the time. It also use to be that if you didn't give her arrows, she would not draw her bow. SE has defantly changed the way she fights. As for changing her ways, it seams if you give her two handed swords she seems to use them more.

[Belanos]

Originally posted by ifoolb:

I'd rather like her to stay that way if I were you, or she takes the risk being hit by me.

I agree. She has a bad habit of getting in the way if she decides to switch to melee. You're better off having her stay behind you using her bow.

[Angry Squirl]

Like Palidin says, she is gonna use her best gear. Get a steel 1h and smith it up a little and give it to her. Smith up some armor for her and she will tank better for you. It is easy to get plated armor for her at low level on a particular quest.