Lae’zel Companion Build Guide

Welcome to my Lae’zel Build Guide for Baldur’s Gate 3! The goal of this guide is to show you the best way to setup Lae’zel in BG3. You can follow the recommendations below to play with Lae’zel as your main character or have her assist your Tav as a Companion!

Table of Contents

• Who is Lae’zel
  • How to Recruit Lae’zel
  • Origin Info
• Best Class
• Fighter Class
  • Battle master Subclass
• Additional Info
• How to Play Lae’zel
• Build Leveling Options
• Best Weapon
• Best Armor

Who is Lae’zel in Baldur’s Gate 3?

Lae’zel is one of the available Origin Characters that you can pick in Baldur’s Gate 3. As an origin character, you can pick Lae’zel at the start of the game as your main character and complete the game with her. Alternatively you can recruit her as a Companion and let her join your party.

How to Recruit Lae’zel in BG3?

Lae’zel is the first Companion you will meet in the game aboard the Nautiloid! You will recruit her temporarily at the start of the game and she will help you escape. After the crash, you will find Lae’zel trapped by two Tieflings North of the Roadside Cliffs Waypoint. You can convince the Tieflings to leave her to you or fight them. When you free her, you have the chance to recruit her as a Companion. If you ignore this encounter, you will still have a chance to recruit Lae’zel later before the Mountain Pass crossing and near the Rosymorn Monastery for a second time.

Lae’zel Origin Info

Origin Characters have their own unique background, Class, abilities, skills and of course Race. Some of these options are impossible to change but you can alter the rest. As an Origin Character Lae’zel comes with the following:

• Race: Githyanki
• Class: Fighter
• Bakcground: Soldier
• Skills: Athletics, Acrobatics, Survival, Intimidation

It is impossible to change the Race and Background of Lae’zel in BG3 but we can pick a more appropriate Class, abilities and skills that will help more in the game!

What is the Best Class for Lae’zel in Baldur’s Gate 3?

Lae’zel is a dynamic Companion that excels in melee combat, so it is no surprise that a melee focused Class will be the best for her. Her starting Class is Fighter which is also the Best Class for Lae’zel in Baldur’s Gate 3! She shines in close quarters combat with Two Handed weapons. She can heal herself, attack multiple times as a Fighter and stand her ground against multiple enemies. Lae’zel is a sturdy Warrior that can draw the attention of enemies and deal significant damage.

If you wish to alter her Class entirely, you can easily do it with the help of Withers! You can find Withers by clearing the Dank Crypt early in the game, near your starting location. After that, Withers will join your camp and offer various services, including the ability to change Classes!

Fighter Class in Baldur’s Gate 3

The Fighter is a versatile Class that can choose from a variety of fighting styles and focus on its appropriate play style. The available play styles are:

• Archery – Bonus to Ranged Weapon Attacks
• Defense – Bonus to Armor Class
• Dueling – Damage Bonus to attacks when equipped with one only weapon(non 2H or Versatile weapon)
• Great Weapon Fighting – Reroll when your initial roll is low with Two-Handed Melee Weapons.
• Protection – When carrying a shield, impose disadvantage to enemies attacking allies near you.
• Two-Weapon Fighting – Add ability modifier to your off hand attacks.

So it is possible to create an archer, a tank and a variety of other melee characters with the Fighter Class. Additionally, Fighters also get the Second Wind action, which allows them to heal themselves once every short rest!

Battle Master Subclass in BG3

The Battle Master is an easy but powerful Subclass you can choose for Lae’zel. Battle Master allows you to pick Maneuvers that can aid you in combat but also adds a Superiority Dice that determines how effective those maneuvers are! These are the Subclass Features you can unlock with Battle Master:

• At level 3 you get your first Superiority Dice and can choose three Maneuvers.
• At level 7 you get another Superiority Dice and two more Maneuvers.
• Finally at level 10 you get an upgraded Dice and two more Maneuvers.

Lae’zel Build Additional Info

Below you can see the best options for Lae’zel as a Battle Master Fighter. Which abilities to choose and the best skills you should take.

Lae’zel Battle Master Fighter Abilities

Strength is the Best Ability for Lae’zel as a Fighter! The higher your Strength is, the stronger you can hit with Lae’zel. Constitution is also an important ability, that offers a boost to Health and will help you survive longer. Dexterity on the other hand can boost your initiative and allow you to hit early in fights. If you play Lae’zel as your main character then you might also want to put a few points to Charisma, for better dialogue results. For a powerful Lae’zel Battle Master Fighter Build you should allocate your abilities like this:

• Strength – 17
• Dexterity – 15
• Constitution – 16
• Intelligence – 8
• Wisdom – 8
• Charisma – 8

Lae’zel Skills

There is no reason to change the original Skills for Lae’zel, since they are a good fit for her role! So keep Athletics, Acrobatics, Survival, Intimidation as her Skills.

How to Play Lae’zel Fighter Build in BG3

Lae’zel is a Brawler as a Battle Master Fighter! Charge your enemies with her and deal massive damage with maneuvers and special attacks. Start with your Menacing Attack to frighten enemies and control the fight! Thanks to the extra Attacks you unlock as you level up, you can defeat multiple enemies before your first turn ends. Other Maneuvers can Disarm enemies or even Support your Allies.

Lae’zel Battle Master Fighter Build Leveling Process in Baldur’s Gate 3

Below you can find the best options and actions for Lae’zel in every level. Follow these recommendations to create a powerful Lae’zel Build that can devastate your enemies.

Level 1 Best Options

At level 1 you pick your Fighting Style! Choose Great Weapon Fighting, so you can wield some of the Best Greatswords in the game and deal massive Damage. Adjust your Abilities as shown above and keep the same skills.

Level 2 Best Options

At level 2 you unlock Action Surge! A powerful action that allows you to gain an extra Action to use this turn every Short Rest!

Level 3 Best Options

At level 3 you can choose a Subclass. Battle Master is the Best option for Lae’zel. You get 4 d8s Superiority Dice and can also choose three Maneuvers:

• Menacing Attack – Fear melee and ranged attack
• Maneuvering Attack – Melee attack
• Disarming Attack – Melee and Ranged Disarming attack

Level 4 Best Lae’zel Build Options

When you reach level 4 you can pick your first Feat! Feats are powerful passive effects that can enhance your play style or help you alter your build! You can pick 4 Feats for your Lae’zel Build at levels 4, 6, 8 and 12! Picking Feats is quite important for the effectiveness of your Build in Baldur’s Gate 3. As your first Feat, pick Ability Improvement and add 2 points to Strength. Like this your Strength score will rise up to 19 and your Battle Master Fighter will be more effective. The Best Feats for Lae’zel as a Fighter are Ability Improvement, Alert, Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Master!

Level 5 Best options

When you reach Level 5 you unlock Extra Attack! Extra Attack allows you to make an additional free attack after making an unarmed or weapon attack. You also get access to the Misty Step Spell from your Githyanki Race!

Level 6 Best Options

At level 6 you gain another Feat! Pick Alert this time. Alert grants you a bonus to initiative and makes it impossible to be surprised.

Level 7 Best Options

At level 7 you get another Superiority Dice and can pick two more Maneuvers! Choose the following:

• Feinting Attack – Use both Action and bonus Action on a turn to attack a target with advantage and deal more damage.
• Precision Attack – Spend a Superiority Die to add it to the result to an Attack Roll.

Level 8 Best Lae’zel Fighter Build Options

At Level 8 you can pick another Feat for your Lae’zel Build. Pick Savage Attacker. With this Feat when you make melee weapon attacks you roll your damage dice twice and use the highest result.

Level 9 Best Options

When you reach Level 9 you unlock the Indomitable passive, which boosts your defense. When you fail a Saving Throw, you can roll again, using the new result instead.

Level 10 Best Options

At level 10 you gain improved Superiority Dice and two more maneuvers. Pick the following:

• Sweeping Attack – Attack multiple enemies at once.
• Distracting Strike – Distract a target to give Advantage to your allies on their next Attack Roll against them.

Level 11 Best Options

At level 11 you gain the Improved Extra Attack Passive, that allows you to make two extra attacks after attacking with your main hand weapon.

Level 12 Best Lae’zel Battle Master Fighter Build Options BG3

Finally at level 12 you unlock your final Feat. Pick Great Weapon Master, a Feat that allows you to perform another melee weapon attack as a Bonus Action, when you land a Critical Hit or kill a target with a melee weapon attack. Attacks with Melee Weapons you are proficient with and are wielding in both hands can deal an additional 10 damage at the cost of a -5 Attack Roll penalty.

What is the Best Weapon for Lae’zel Build in Baldur’s Gate 3?

The Best Weapon for Lae’zel as a Battle Master Fighter Build in Baldur’s Gate 3, is the Balduran’s Giantslayer! A Legendary Greatsword that you can get by completing the Wyrmway Trials in Act 3 and offers the following effects:

• Giantslayer: On a hit, double the damage from your Strength Modifier. This weapon grants you advantage on Attack Rolls against Large, Huge or Gargantuan creatures.
• Giant Form Class Action: Grow to a fearsome size. Your weapons deal additional damage and you gain 27 temporary hit points and Advantage on Strength Checks and Saving throws.
• Topple the Big Folk: Deal additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus. On a hit, Large, Huge, or Gargantuan creatures take an additional damage and must succeed a Strength saving throw or fall Prone.
• Weapon Enchantment +3

Another great alternative for Lae’zel is the Silver Sword of the Astral Plane! This weapon deals additional Psychic damage, grants access to the Soulbreaker ability and gives advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma Saving Throws, Resistance to Psychic damage and you cannot be charmed. To utilize its effects though, your character race must be a Githyanki, which is why it is a great option for Lae’zel! This Greatsword offers the following effects:

• Githborn Psionic Weapon: When wielded by a githyanki this weapon deals an additional 1-6 Psychic damage.
• Githborn Psionic Resistance: A githyanki holding this weapon has advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma Saving Throws, Resistance to Psychic damage and cannot be charmed.
• Weapon Enchantment +3
• Soulbreaker: Rend the enemy’s body and soul, dealing additional Psychic damage equal to your proficiency bonus, and possibly Stun them.

You can get this weapon late in Act 3 as a reward for showing the Orphic Hammer to Kith’rak Voss.

A few great weapons you can use early in the game include the Phalar Aluve you can get in the Underdark, the Adamantine Longsword you can forge in the Adamantine Forge and Corpsegrinder. Corpsegrinder is a Rare Maul you can loot early in Act 3 from Cairos, West of Rivington. It offers the following:

• Weapon Enchantment +2
• Tenacity: When you miss an attack, you deal 6 Bludgeoning damage anyway.
• Grand Slam: Slam your weapon into the ground, dealing additional Thunder damage equal to your proficiency bonus, thunderously impacting nearby foes and possibly pushing them away.

You can also use the rare Soulbreaker Greatsword, which you can loot from Kith’rak Therezzyn Commander inside the Creche under the Rosymorn Monastery, Mountain Pass(Act 1). This weapon offers:

• Githborn Psionic Weapon: When wielded by a githyanki this weapon deals an additional 1-4 Psychic damage.
• Seldom Caught Unaware: You gain a +2 bonus to initiative Rolls.
• Weapon Enchantment +1
• Soulbreaker: Rend the enemy’s body and soul, dealing additional Psychic damage equal to your proficiency bonus, and possibly Stun them.

For your Ranged Weapon you can use the Fabricated Arbalest, which is a Very Rare Heavy Crossbow you can loot from Enver Gortash in Act 3. It offers:

• Weapon Enchantment +2
• Illuminating Shot: Fire a shimmering bolt that inflicts 1 turn of Radiating Orb upon the target.
• Dazzling Ray: Unleash a beam of brilliant light that Blinds all creatures in its path.

Early in the game use Harold as your ranged weapon. Harold is a rare Heavy Crossbow you can get from Zarys by returning her the chest in Find the Missing Shipment quest. You can find Zarys in the Zhentarim Hideout which is also one of the ways you can enter into the Underdark in Act 1. Harold offers:

• Haroldish Doom: When you deal damage to a target with a ranged weapon, it must succeed a Charisma Saving Throw or be Baned for 2 turns.
• Weapon Enchantment +1

The table below shows you the best Gear for the Lae’zel Build, as well as early alternative options you can use.

Piece	Best	Early Game
Head	Helm of Balduran	Grymskull Helm
Cape	Cloak of Protection	Cloak of Protection
Chest	Helldusk Armor	Adamantine Scale Mail
Gloves	Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength	Gloves of Power
Boots	Helldusk Boots	Boots of Genial Striding
Necklace	Amulet of Greater Health	Surgeon’s Subjucation Amulet
Ring	Killer’s Sweetheart	Caustic Band
Ring	Ring of Regeneration	Ring of Protection
Melee Weapon	Balduran’s Giantslayer	Corpsegrinder
Ranged Weapon	Fabricated Arbalest	Harold

What is the Best Armor for Lae’zel Build in Baldur’s Gate 3?

The Helm of Balduran is the best head Armor for Lae’zel in Baldur’s Gate 3. You can get it by completing the Wyrmway Trials, along with the Balduran’s Giantslayer! This Helmet offers:

• Balduran’s Vitality: The helmet heals you 2 hit points at the beginning of every turn.
• Balduran’s Favour: You have a +1 bonus to Armour Class and Saving throws.
• Stun Immunity: You can’t be Stunned.
• Attackers can’t land Critical Hits on the wearer.

Cloak of Protection offers a +1 to Armor Class and Saving Throw and is a nice Cape Armor that you can get from Quartermaster Talli(loot or buy) in the Last Light Inn in Act 2. The Helldusk Armor is the best Armor option for Chest! A legendary Heavy Armor that you can loot from Raphael in House of Hope(Act 3). The Armor offers:

• Helldusk Armor: You are considered Proficient with this armor while wearing it.
• Infernal Retribution: When you succeed a Saving Throw, the caster receives Burning for 3 turns.
• Prime Aegis of Fire: You have resistance to Fire damage and cannot be Burned. You take 3 less damage from all sources.
• Fly level 3 Spell

Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength is the best Armor for Gloves. Very Rare Armor that you can get in House of Hope and Sets the wearer’s Strength to 23. The enchantment has no effect if their Strength score is higher without it. It also grants Strength Saving Throws +1. The Helldusk Boots is a nice boots option that you can get by looting a gilded chest in Gortash’s room on the top floor of Wyrm’s Rock Fortress. With them you get:

• Steadfast: You cannot be forcibly moved by a foe’s spells or actions, and you ignore the effects of Difficult Terrain.
• Infernal Evasion: When you fail a Saving Throw, you may use your reaction to succeed instead.
• Hellcrawler Class Action

The Amulet of Greater Health is the Best Amulet for the Build, which you can get in the House of Hope and Sets the Wearer’s Constitution to 23. It also grants advantage on Constitution Saving Throws Checks.

Killer’s Sweatheart and Ring of Regeneration are finally the best ring options for Lae’zel as a Fighter in Baldur’s Gate 3! You can get the Killer’s Sweatheart ring by defeating yourself in the Self-Same Trial inside the Gauntlet of Shar(Act 2). The ring grants you the Executioner effect: When you kill a creature, your next Attack Roll will be a Critical Hit. Once spent, this effect refreshes after a Long Rest. You can buy the Ring of Regeneration from Rolan at the Sorcerous Sundries in Act 3 and get Combat Regeneration: At the beginning of your turn, the ring activates and heals you for 1-4 hit points.

There are a few great alternative items that you can get early and will help you advance your game until you can get one of the Best Armor pieces above.

• Grymskull Helm is a Very Rare Head piece that you loot from Grym in the Adamantine Forge(Act 1), grants resistance to fire damage, Hunter’s Mark and attackers cannot land Critical Hits on the wearer.
• Adamantine Scale Mail is an excellent Medium Armor that you can craft at the Adamantine Forge. It reduces incoming damage, sends enemies reeling and attackers cannot land Critical Hits on the wearer.
• Gloves of Power inflicts penalties to enemies hit and grants Sleight of Hand +1. You can loot it from Za’Krug in front of the Grove in Act 1.
• Boots of Genial Striding allow you to move normally over difficult terrain and you can buy them from Blurg in the Myconid Colony in Act 1!
• Surgeon’s Subjucation Amulet allows you to paralyze an enemy and you can get it from Malus Thorm at the House of Healing(Act 2).
• Caustic Band adds Acid damage to your Weapon Attacks. You can buy it from Derryth Bonecloak in the Myconid Colony in Act 1.
• Ring of Protection grants +1 to Armor Class and Saving Throw and you can get it as a reward from Mol for stealing the Druids’ Idol(Act 1).

The above options will help you create a powerful Lae’zel Battle Master Fighter Build in Baldur’s Gate 3, that you can use as your main character or as a party Companion! For more Baldur’s Gate 3 content you can take a look at my Baldur’s Gate 3 Builds and Baldur’s Gate 3 Guides!