What should be my highest stat as a Paladin?

Strength is the Paladin's most important stat, but that gets lost in the debate regarding the importance of Charisma. Charisma is the stat that governs your spellcasting ability, but depending on your exact build and party composition, that's not always a necessity.
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What is a good proficiency for a Paladin?

The best Paladin skill proficiencies are Insight and Persuasion. Insight allows you to determine a being's true intentions or motivations, while Persuasion impacts your ability to convince another character to do something without resorting to deception or intimidation.
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Do Paladins need high strength?

Ultimately, when dealing massive amounts of damage through melee attacks and primarily using spells such as Hunter's Mark, you'll want your Paladin to have high Strenght and high Constitution. Your high Charisma score could be beneficial with spells later on, or if you multiclass into Warlock.
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What stats are most important for Oath of Vengeance Paladin?

The Best Ability Score for the Paladin is 16 Strength and 16 Charisma for high-damage melee abilities and spells like Divine Smite. The next priority is Constitution to 14 so you have a larger enough health pool to survive. Hitting Strength and Charisma at 16 is critical for the optimal damage setup for the Paladin.
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What stats should I prioritize for a Paladin?

The stat priority is as follows:
  • Weapon Damage (main-hand weapon only) Greatly affects all damage. ...
  • Strength. Significantly affects all damage. ...
  • Critical Hit. Affects both critical hit rate and critical hit damage. ...
  • Direct Hit. Affects direct hit chance. ...
  • Determination. Affects all damage. ...
  • Tenacity. ...
  • Skill Speed.
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Playing Paladin as Intended! - D&D 5e Build

What is the best stat for Paladin 5e?

If you're not multiclassing, Strength is probably your best bet. Charisma is decent for the times you're not using spell slots for divine smite, but even then I'd probably boost Constitution after Strength for more HP.
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What fighting style is best for Paladin?

IMO, if you have to ask, just go Defense. It's the most reliably useful fighting style, and you're never going to not want more AC. The other fighting styles are going to vary depending on your gear and weapons.
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Is strength or Charisma more important Paladin?

If you find yourself attacking normally each turn (and Smiting), you'll probably want to increase Str or take a feat. If you find yourself always using Sacred Weapon, healing abilities, and/or other Saving Throw Spells, then you might want to increase Cha.
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Do Paladins need wisdom or dexterity?

So, Paladins have proficiency to Charisma, because that's their main spell-casting stat, and between Dexterity, Constitution and Wisdom, they chose Wisdom. Removing Dexterity from the mix, because a highly dexterous character doesn't scream "Paladin", we are left with Constitution and Wisdom.
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What stats are Paladins proficient in?

Paladins suffer from multiple attribute dependency: they need high Strenght or Dexterity for weapon attacks, but they also need Charisma for spells and other class features and Constitution to sustain more damage.
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Is wisdom important for Paladins?

This is a typo that has already been noticed here; Paladins use Charisma now to determine their spellcasting abilities. However, a high Wisdom, although not mandatory, is still useful for a Paladin (for Sense Motive, Heal, and Will saves).
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What do Paladins cast with?

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your paladin spells, since their power derives from the strength of your convictions. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
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How do I choose my ability score?

An ability score is determined by rolling 4d6 and discard the lowest score. This is repeated six times and each score is placed next to the ability where they are wanted by the player. This method tends to produce higher than average scores, which is more appropriate for a heroic character.
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Should you multiclass a Paladin?

There are some benefits to the multiclass. A wizard can give a paladin more spell slots and access to utility or defensive spells like Prestidigitation, Shield, or Absorb Elements. That said, other classes can provide the same with far more synergy.
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Can Paladin dump Dex?

For a paladin I strongly recommend dumping DEX to 10 and using heavy armour with no DEX bonus. Str, Con and Cha should be the focus stats, I'm not sure if they need Wis for spell DCs, but in that case don't use DC spells, focus paladins for heals and buffs.
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What weapon should a Paladin use?

A Holy Avenger is literally a weapon made for a Paladin. This legendary weapon can be any sword, a greatsword, rapier, or others, and must be attuned by a Paladin. With a Holy Avenger, you gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls when using it, and it deals extra radiant damage to fiend and undead creatures.
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What is the most powerful Paladin subclass?

Dungeons And Dragons: All Paladin Subclasses, Ranked From Least To Most Powerful
  1. 1 Ancients.
  2. 2 Devotion.
  3. 3 Vengeance.
  4. 4 Conquest.
  5. 5 Watchers.
  6. 6 Oathbreaker.
  7. 7 Glory.
  8. 8 Redemption.
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Why play Fighter over Paladin?

The result is that a Fighter is generally a very good tank, who can take hits but also deal some nasty and consistent damage. A Paladin can tank, and deal out nasty damage, but not as consistently as a Fighter.
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How much Dex should a Paladin have?

Ideally- Str 15, Dex 13, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 18. Some would argue that the 18 should be strength. That argument has its merits but I prefer a cha powered paladin. 15 is plenty.
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What is the best subclass for Paladin 5e?

If you want to play a traditional holy smiter, the Oath of Devotion 5e subclass is the one for you. It's not the most complex class (making it perfect for D&D beginners), but in the right campaign it's very satisfying to play. Your Channel Divinity features are specially made to combat the undead.
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Can a paladin be without a god?

All that matters is that the paladin truly believes in and sticks to whatever their oath is. Paladins and Clerics don't need gods and the magic of bards doesn't have to be musical.
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Why are Paladins so good?

Paladins can burn up to as man attacks and bonus actions they have. Dealing far more damage a turn than any one spell. Paladins have more health, deal more damage, have higher AC, better Saves, and can heal better than Bards.
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Do Paladins need to serve a god?

Most Paladins are sworn to a deity. But all Paladins recieve their powers from deities, whether or not they are aware of it or not. Thats a given. Their powers and spells use Divine magic, they use Holy symbols, they recieve powers before they swear oaths (if you want to go technical).
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Is wisdom or intelligence more important for a Paladin?

Neither does Int, besides some very few dialogues (which you can have your Wizard handle). Wisdom has no effect for Paladins + Rangers with their spellcasting, Clerics and Druids gain extra spellslots from high Wis score. In short, focus on physical stats and put remaining points in to Charisma.
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