Best Human squadmate duo

No idea, but it's from the movie scene so he's sitting next to Cora...

Miranda and Jacob!! The other two pairs were good but I will bet on Miranda and Jacob if they are all thrown into a pit fight

Miranda and Ashley, Zaeed and Miranda, James and Ashley,  Ashley and Kaidan, 

Miranda and Kasumi.

I just finished a run on ME1 and absolutely loved the Ashley/Kaidan combo. I so wish I could have threw the blue one at the bomb instead and resumed with A/K in ME3.

I agree- I wish they did more with Kasumi, she was awesome! Although I will say that I loved Miranda- especially her dynamic with Jack.

I dunno, I felt like the pay off with both of them was really great.  

I really liked Cora in Andromeda, she has/d a lot of potential- I'm hoping to read her book soon. I liked Liam fine, I wasn't a big fan of his impulsive decision in his loyalty missions and felt like they could've done so much more with him. 

Lol this is the true answer! I absolutely loved Zaeed.

That said, my answer to the choices in the polls is probably obvious via my avatar.

Ashley & Kaidan.


1. Ashley is my favorite squadmate even though they butchered her in ME2 and ME3. Kaidan has carth voice so that's kinda cool but he never makes it past virmire. Up until that point he was at least not annoying like some others on this list.

2. Miranda was passable as a squadmate, but that catsuit was horrible so she got stuck on the ship most of the time. Jacob really weighs this team down however with he towering piles of meh "oh hey... you... who are you again? Uh, EDI did you authorize this guy to be on the ship?"

3. Liam is probably the most incompetent and annoying squadmate of all time so... sorry Cora you have no shot to win this vote. (And if I'm being honest, Cora was rather dull herself)

4. James lol... didn't even make it on the poll. But Kaidan > James so... Ashley/James has no shot to win this poll regardless of my love for her. 

What if I say that I genuinely like Ash & Kaidan as characters? They were awesome in their own way. Cora & Liam have potential but don't know how they'll handle them, if they continue


Take all my likes! Down with the blue plague 

Ashley and Kaidan because it has Kaidan ♥

Miranda is a pretty sweet all-purpose character in ME2, and I used her quite often - she could strip barriers and armor very well with warp, and overload is perfect for shields. Plus, slam is such a sweet move. And her squad buff is arguably the best in all of ME2.

Kaidan in ME3 essentially takes on this role, and overcomes his prior gameplay shortcomings in ME1.

James is also useful as a tank. Plus, grenades are easy enough to spam.

All the other human squadmates have a handful of virtues (Ashley in ME1 is a great squadmate in gameplay,) but rather atrocious and boring in ME3 (she's a Garrus clone without the useful ability to strip barriers.) She does offer one hell of a perk power - Marksman on a Soldier is magnificent, IMO, especially when you're packing a high-damage machine gun.

Jacob in ME2 has pull, but his weapons are awful. Kasumi is useful, but she just doesn't fit my play style. Zaeed has the same abilities as Ashley in ME3, more or less. Jack's biotics are strong, but she's too squishy for my tastes, and her weapons are awful.

As for best human squadmates?

Well, Miranda is the one I most identify with and regard as one of the most complex and nuanced characters in BioWare history (particularly in ME2.) ME3 flanderizes her plot a bit, but keeps a lot of the identifiable aspects of her character, such as her self-reliability and development in ME2 to ME3 in place.

Ashley is not someone I like at all - she hits all the wrong notes in ME1 and ME2, and is a total non-entity in ME3 after Mars. I kept her around to romance her, then leave her for Miranda in ME2, hoping to get some sort of conflict between the two come ME3 but... aside from some very catty shade that Ashley makes about Miranda in the hospital, there's nothing, and her personality completely disappears sans her usual bug up her ass about Cerberus. My Shepard is pretty pro-Cerberus, and I wanted the ability to really throw her idiocy back in her face in ME3 - thing is, you barely get any conversations with her at all, and her scenes are just bland and generic.

Kaidan is far more tolerable in ME1 and ME3, and I found him to be a much more thoughtful companion in ME3, given his reflection over his and Shepard's past. Plus, actually being able to interact with him has made him better. I'd prefer him alive in ME3, if not for the meta-gaming and headcanon I resort to for Shepard/Miranda/Ashley behind the scenes, and Ashley's necessity in that plot (I really put Ashley through the ringer, and she doesn't make it out alive.)

Jack was never my favorite - I don't like her uncontrolled, moody temper-tantrums, nor did I see her development in ME3 as realistic (she's a psychotic, former mass-murdering criminal and delinquent, and becoming an instructor at a prestigious academy for humanity's most gifted youths is just not something I'd see - especially when the development from 'wakened from cryo-imprisonment in one of the roughest prisons in the galaxy to be used as biotic fodder on a suicide mission' to 'mellowed out, kinda edgy-but-hip instructor' with granola girl vibes in the Citadel DLC happens in what is implied to be under a year. I think having her being off in the Terminus systems, amassing a group of abandoned biotic kids and looking out for them while still being a criminal is more realistic.

Jacob is... I don't necessarily enjoy the guy, but I don't dislike him either - he's affable to my Shepard, he has a conscious, and he has a stable, sensible personality. I prefer people like that, and he knows his place in the pecking order. The only thing I never liked about him was the implied former-relationship with Miranda - not that it's 'bad,' but I just don't see either of them being interested in the other. Jacob even states that Miranda requires a man who is more... sophisticated, I think is what I'd go with. Plus, I think Miranda is drawn to a challenger and equal - she seems like the type who appreciates power and achievement, and someone who doesn't settle. And for his part, I don't think Miranda is Jacob's cup of tea - beyond looks, which are quite considerable (in-universe, she's probably one of the most beautiful human women who have ever lived) - she's too... detached, ambiguous, and complex for someone like Jacob, and I think it's something he'd have an issue with. Jacob is the type of person who seems to have a more... stringent moral center than Miranda. And going along with the 'settling' aspect, Jacob lacks the same kind of ambition as someone like Miranda.

Zaeed is likable enough - he's paid to be your man, and he never pretends to be anything different. He's affable enough, and deadly, and that's what counts on the battlefield. Plus, he's practical - he knows the score come ME3, and he's more than willing to offer what help he can provide. My Shepard is the type that doesn't really ask more than that.

Kasumi, I've never really gotten into. She's ok enough, and she's got a friendly and perky personality, but like Zaeed, she's there probably because she's been paid to be there. Which is, again, fine. She's got the skills and competency to justify her inclusion on the team, and for someone like my Shepard, that's all he really asks for.

James is pretty good - he has a surprising amount of depth to his character, and he's not just some macho-meathead. Sure, he's a bit green around aliens, but as far as battle and inner demons goes, he's been around the block, he knows the score, and, most importantly, he keeps an open-mind and is willing to learn. I like him a lot - the irony being that when I started ME3, I expected to be dismissive of him as just another alliance goon.

Seriously I have too choose between these?

They are nothing compared to the ones never given access to.

With that said I choose:
Commander Shepard, David Anderson & Alec Ryder