Best companion or wife to marry?

[M1917Enfield]

What is the strongest companion in the game? Also what is the best wife? Are there different bonuses with different wives? My current one is ysolda which you get bonus gold. What are the other marry bonuses for the other wives?

[Rez Elwin]

The strongest sollower in the game is Frea from Dragonborn, she cannot die and levels with you indefinitely, and one of the few that can dual wield.

The best wife is personal preference, whoever you like the look of best, they all give you gold and food when asked. If you want a wife who is ALSO a follower the Aela is probably the best choice there.

[Poil]

Mjoll. She's cool, can't die and has a great sword right from the start. <3

[Rez Elwin]

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Mjoll. She's cool, can't die and has a great sword right from the start. <3

Just note if Aerin is still alive he will continue to follower her, even into your house.
Also you have to go find her sword, otherwise it's just steel.

[Darx]

boy oh boy are you missing out on good companion mods / waifus

[psychotron666420]

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Mjoll. She's cool, can't die and has a great sword right from the start. <3

Just note if Aerin is still alive he will continue to follower her, even into your house.
Also you have to go find her sword, otherwise it's just steel.

Yeah your wife will cheat on you with aerin.

[RequiemsRose]

I only know a couple of the more specific perks/quirks to marrying certain npcs. Like it was an interesting discovery to find out that if you end up with Balimund as a husband and have him move to your house, there's a chance that Asbjorn will also decide to move in. Since Asbjorn's backstory is that he was at the orphanage until Balimund adopted him, it's sort of the only vanilla way to adopt an adult npc into your family without modding. Course, Balimund is not a wife, so that doesn't help so much here.

I know Ysolda is about the only way to get a whole lot of khajiit to attend the wedding, which is nice when you play a khajiit who unfortunately cant marry any other khajiit (without modding/console). The extra gold is nice to. Otherwise i tend to go the RP route with marriage which often sees me marrying a companion (the faction) because i'm also either a werewolf or vampire most the time, one monster can understand another right? Aela is pretty decent, shes even an archery trainer, though she rarely seems to use it when I move her into Lakeview. Instead I just give my kids overpowered swords and let the immortal ankle biters loose on whatever is dumb enough to show up.

[Poil]

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Just note if Aerin is still alive he will continue to follower her, even into your house.
Also you have to go find her sword, otherwise it's just steel.

Yeah your wife will cheat on you with aerin.

"This bug is fixed by version 1.2 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch."

[Iron Knights]

Lydia ? But I got her as I was an Orc Fighter so... not much help. In general, companions will get friendly fire, interfere with your battle strategy & tactics.

[Iron Knights]

I'm not so sold on the marriage thing:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868942701

[Poil]

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Lydia ? But I got her as I was an Orc Fighter so... not much help. In general, companions will get friendly fire, interfere with your battle strategy & tactics.

Yes, that's why the essential ones who can't die have the advantage. But I've found no companion who is helpful if you're sneaking.

[Graceful Jabberwocky]

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Lydia ? But I got her as I was an Orc Fighter so... not much help. In general, companions will get friendly fire, interfere with your battle strategy & tactics.

true, but you can use them to carry around stuff, which imo is worth keeping them around for

[Call Sign: Raven]

Clearly Marcurio, apparently! Gets you through the Dragon Born DLC in 5 minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaXAwx_QO2g&ab_channel=Waz

[Poil]

Not sure I'd want to marry a mercenary follower myself.
"Here is some money."
"Wow, I love you let's get married"
Damn septim diggers. :p