Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Recruitment Requirements

In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, you start out with eight students you need to teach, but you can recruit other students to your Houses. In this guide we run through the recruitment requirements for those students.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses starts you off with eight students in your house. You need to train those students, and lead them in battles, and help them find their best possible class and ability set. You can also recruit other students into your house, which is crucial if you want a broad and widely skilled roster for battles.

It’s essential to meet their specific recruitment requirements when recruiting students. These are skills the student wants you to know so that they know you can teach them.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Recruitment Requirements

Below you will find a list of students, and the skills you need to me their recruitment requirements. You can also increase your Support Level with a student to recruit them. Sharing meals, giving them gifts, cooking with them, and fighting with them in battles will all help to increase your Support Level. If you pick the right answers while having conversations with them, it will also help to improve your Support Rank.

• Caspar – Strength, Brawl
• Dorothea – Charisma, Authority
• Felix – Speed, Sword
• Annette – Magic, Faith
• Ashe – Charisma, Lance
• Bernadetta – Strength, Bow
• Hilda – Charisma, Axe
• Leonie – Strength, Lance
• Linhardt – Magic, Reason
• Lorenz – Charisma, Reason
• Raphael – Strength, Heavy Armor
• Ferdinand – Dexterity, Heavy Armor
• Lysithea – Magic, Faith
• Marianne – Magic, Riding
• Mercedes – Magic, Bow
• Ingrid – Dexterity, Flying
• Ignatz – Authority, Dexterity
• Petra – Dexterity, Riding
• Sylvain – Charisma, Riding

There also appears to be a minimal chance of a character requesting to join your House. Others will automatically join during the timeskip, a five-year-jump in the narrative as you progress through the story.