Information about how to recruit Leonie in Fire Emblem Three Hopes.
In Fire Emblem Three Houses you could recruit many characters simply by getting specific stats and skills high enough. Once done, they’d be impressed enough to realize that studying under you would suit them better than petty considerations such as life-long friendships, national loyalty, familial duty or even religious conviction.
Unfortunately characters in Fire Emblem Three Hopes aren’t quite as malleable - some characters will join your faction as you progress the Main Questline, usually due to story contrivances entirely outside of your control. The rest, however, must be met in battle and “persuaded” to join you… often by lumping them on the head enough times to realize that they’d be better off defecting than decomposing.
To recruit characters in battle, you’ll need to activate a “Persuade” Strategy before the battle begins.
Character Recruitment Strategies¶
In the case where a character can be persuaded to join you, this “persuasion” effort is achieved via the deployment of a Strategy. When you start a battle in which a character can be recruited you’ll first have to pick from a variety of available [Strategies]. You can find more information about Strategies on their own page, but for the purposes of recruiting characters you’ll be interested in any “Persuade [Character]” Strategies, which you must select prior to the battle to ensure you can utilize said Strategy(ies) during the battle. Deploying Strategies in turn require you to expend Strategy Resources, a currency gained by completing [Side Quests] during the chapter leading up to the Main Quest where enemy characters can be recruited.
During battle, when the character you wish to recruit spawns you must activate the Strategy to persuade them by entering the battle menu before you defeat them. If you defeat them without activating the Strategy - even if you selected it before the battle - they will die and you will not be able to recruit that character for the rest of the playthrough! Once the Strategy has been activated, the area where the Strategy is in effect (usually where the target character spawned) will be surrounded by a purple glow. Merely defeat them in this area and you’ll recruit the character.
How to Recruit Leonie in the Scarlet Blaze Route¶
(1 of 4) Leonie will become poisoned after defeating Metodey
During the Main Quest in Chapter 12, you will be able to deploy the Persuade Leonie Strategy by expending 30 Strategy Resources. You should have a total of 70 Strategy Resources if you capture all of the regions prior to beginning the Main Quest. Play the battle as normal, making sure that Leonie doesn’t get defeated at all. After defeating Metodey, you should see a notification on your screen that Leonie has been poisoned, which will occur around the same time as the Demonic Beast appearing. This is when the Persuade Leonie Strategy will appear, so initiate it when you see it.
At this point, make sure you escort Leonie to the eastern side of the map. There will be a drawbridge located there, but it is raised, so you will have to hit the switch to lower it. Once you do this, Leonie will simply stroll back to the Evacuation Shelter stronghold, without encountering any resistance. Upon reaching it, she will thank you, then leave the battlefield.
How to Recruit Leonie in the Azure Gleam Route¶
Leonie is one of the characters that cannot be recruited in the Azure Gleam Route.
How to Recruit Leonie in the Golden Wildfire Route¶
Leonie is one of the characters you will have from the beginning, if you decide to choose the Golden Deer near the beginning of the game.
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