Hard to know without the other two picks, because you would choose different roles based on the odds of picking up something with your lower picks. For the sake of this experiment, I'll assume myself an KB are scum, which gives my team 1, 4, 5, 18, 21.Socrates wrote:Hoopla, you keep saying that their picks were stupid, so I am curious. Whatwouldyou have picked as scum with those spots?
Immediately going into this game as scum I would be petrified of potency of mason combinations; weak doctor and bomb are just way too strong to let them do their own thing. The masons played Weak Doctor the right way, use it as a cop to investigate people, then if he dies, you can still have the results out anyway confirming a couple of people. The bomb is obviously potent, because it means an unlynchable/unkillable innocent, so I'd definitely consider taking one or even both of these role to make the masons dispensable and not such a huge threat.
I would also be very wary of all the talk of massclaim pregame, so I'd factor that into my choices and skip the vigs, and pick unisex roles with functionability. Jailkeeper and gunsmith have great value if you ignore the vigs, plus makes you look protown for not taking scum roles. However, you'd need to try and save your first draft pick somehow from being lynched, so you need to pick a role that is conceivable for a townie, and I think cop/vig/gunsmith are the only real options. So, my picks;
1 - Gunsmith/Cop
4 - Weak Doctor
5 - Bomb
18 - Jailkeeper
21 - Role Cop/Redirector
This gives decent powerrole finding combinations and protection from vigs, and taking the Jailkeeper so low is a strategy based on roleblocker/jailkeeper not being taken in the previous two versions of the game. I think with the town loaded with more power than last game, scum needed to play more defensively rather than going for town-crushing combos because they really weren't there to be honest. Town-looking, believable claims are also important in a game like this, because you don't get to keep potent role combos if you keep getting lynched from scummy role choices.
. I am really liking the Hoopla lynch.
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