• Best Follower Overhaul Mod Skyrim
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• Best Follower Mod For Skyrim

Sometimes traveling Skyrim by yourself can be lonely, but not every character would welcome human companionship – or maybe you don’t want to deal with the other aspects of the follower system like managing inventory and equipment. Maybe your character (or you!) is an animal lover. And sometimes you just need a furry friend because not having one at your side feels wrong. In this list, I’ve compiled a collection of the best animal and creature follower mods for both special edition and legendary (classic) edition I could find, taking into account variety and functionality.

Introducion: Instead of adding a completely new follower, this mod seeks to enhance the popular vanilla NPC known as Aela the Huntress. Using Bioware companions as inspiration, the mod seeks to enhance Aela’s dialogue, combat and general behavior in order to make her a more fleshed out character that the player can interact with. Skyrim is still going strong, even after all these years. With the release of the Skyrim Special Edition, it’s about time the best followers were covered. These NPCs journey with you, encountering huge beasts, betrayals and quests. You should always choose the follower you personally like the most but some are better than others.

Dogs & Wolves

Garm the Husky Companion / (SSE)

A feature-rich dog/husky follower with many appearance options available, both lore-friendly and unique. Doesn’t trigger traps, has max stealth skill, and is overall a very well developed follower.

Meeko Reborn

While my criteria for most of these mods is that they add new animals rather than editing existing ones, this one was too good to pass up. Adds a variety of unique appearance options and features to vanilla dog follower Meeko, including a summon spell, enhanced stealth, and making him essential so you never have to worry about Meeko dying on you again.

Vigilance Reborn

Just like the above mod, adds a bunch of useful features to the vanilla dog companion Vigilance: unique appearances, cannot be killed, ability to call him to your side, and more.

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Fenrir the Frost Wolf

An icy themed wolf follower, Fenrir has a unique appearance and the ability to cast several frost spells. Also comes with his own summoning spell.

Doge – The Husky Companion

A simple black and white husky companion with HD fur and eye textures. Has a few appearance varieties, such as with or without armor, and eye color options. Doesn’t set off traps or stealth meter.

Judah – Working Dog

A German Shepard Dog follower with enhanced attacking abilities and custom dialogue commands.

True Meeko

Several cute appearance options for vanilla dog Meeko. Also makes him essential and allows him to level with you.

Wolf Master

Adds a small dungeon that, one completed, allows you to recruit several wolf companions. Also includes options for allowing several wolves to follow you.

Doge Reborn – Shiba Inu companion

A cute Shiba Inu follower dog. Has optional black fur version.

Rex the German Shepherd Companion / (SSE)

Adds a family of German Shepard Dogs to Dragonsreach in Whiterun, with a couple different appearances.

Asky – almost like a real dog

A dog with many unique features, including its own blanket and food bowl, loyalty system, and feeding requirements.

Daruk The Fire Wolf

An essential, flaming wolf companion. For when you need a dog that’s also on fire all the time.

Black and White Dog

As the name implies, a dog with a custom textured black and white coat pattern. Also has a brown version of the same texture.

Amaterasu – The Great Spirit

A wolf with a very unique design and textures based on a Japanese deity. Comes with its own MCM menu for customization and a summoning shout.

Melpomene -The Spectral Warhound Follower

A unique looking spectral dog follower, with custom dialogue options.

Cats and Sabre Cats

Sabretooth – the loyal Sabrecat Companion / (SSE)

A feature-rich sabre cat follower with his own bonding/perks system, texture options with in-game selection, and custom commands.

Cats of Skyrim

Adds all sorts of domestic and wild cats to many areas in the game, including purchasable/adoptable cats.

Jango

A rideable sabre cat with enhanced health regen, summoning spell, and item to enable/disable following or waiting in a specific location.

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Loki the Panther Follower

A panther follower with custom appearance/meshes and craftable collars.

Tanback

Adds a sabrecat follower with custom sounds, textures, dialogue options, and is essential.

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Guenhwyvar

A summonable panther follower with custom dialogue commands. Unfortunately only lasts for 6 hours per day, but can be resummoned daily or force-recruited with a follower mod like EFF to last permanently.

Charlie – A Cat Follower

A cute house cat follower with several color options.