Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171011055146/@comment-28859532-20171013175527

Team Guardian Angel

Some people here argue that Executioner is more fun to play. But obviously that is just an objective opinion, since i e.g. enjoy protecting players more than hunting them down as Executioner, so that argument is kinda invalid.

It is also far easier to win as Guardian Angel than with the Executioner. Often times Executioners are super obvious, especially if you look at ranked games. You could theoretically claim Guardian Angel D1 and confirm yourself the following night of course, even though that bears some risks. You might get targetted by a certain faction, but you instead gained another faction's trust.

Even if the faction that wants to get you killed actually kills you, you can still fulfill you objective, since the GA is able to use their abiltity even when dead. This alone basically makes revealing D1 a 0 risk strategy, since the Killers have higher priority targets.

If you should run out of protections and your target gets killed, it is still a lot easier for you to win. The Guardian Angel's target has probably been confirmed by that point, so if you claim GA --> Surv most people should believe that claim, since it is pretty much confirmed.

Often times when you are Executioner and claim Sheriff for example, noone would believe that claim (even if you actually were Sheriff) as long as the NE is still alive or 2 people can actually confirm that claim. This results in the Executioner often times just randomly winning due to the town's stupidness or because their target is afk when put on trial.

The Executioner role is always based on luck and varys in strength depending on how good the players are, while GA is consistent.

Executioner on the other hand, turns into a Jester, which doesn't make life any easier for them. This is actually quite worse since they can get shot by a Vigilante or even by the Mafia by mistake. Besides that, reaching their goal is way harder than just surviving. They actually have to get themselves lynched which is often times very hard to accomplish, especially in a ranked situation.