Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32994909-20180526215051

I’ll be comparing Sheriff to other common Scum Claims, and you’ll find out why the Sheriff is the most common

– it’s very easy to make a mistake here, you can be called out if someone visited your target, and you’ll immediately be called out as a fake

– it’s not easy to determine who your target visited

– it’s much easier to state: ‘not suspicious’ than try and guess or find out what role someone could be.

– Although this is very easy to claim as Mafia and Coven, it cannot necessarily be claimed by Neutrals. In addition to this, it is harder to claim Spy if Mafia and Coven are in the same game.

– The people in your evil will are usually voted for a role. Including your own Mafia/Coven in your will may get them lynched faster than they would if you didn’t claim, and if all three people you accused have strong claims, such as Jailor/Mayor/Transporter, get themselves confirmed or die revealing themselves as a townie, you’ll be called out as fake

–Sheriff is relatively useful, however, since Medium is the most useless role, town will be quicker to take the risk to lynch a Medium rather than a Sheriff. In addition, another Medium or Retributionist could get you called out as fake.

/ – if roles such as the revealed Jailor die, town will be suspicious of you since you didn’t guard them. A Lookout and Trapper will also be expecting you to possibly guard the same player as them.

/ – They usually kill a lot of roles, if townies claimed to visit you when you said you alerted or visited your target and didn’t die, you’ll be called out as fake.

 – You’re expected to know what your trap has been triggered by, if certain roles visit your target and you don’t mention said roles, you’ll be called out as fake.

 – Vigilante claims are usually required to shoot each other, so claiming this may get you shot. Also, not shooting will cause town to get increasingly suspicious.

 – Not only can you pretend to find nobody and write anyone as not suspicious, you can so easily claim a random person to be a member of the Mafia, getting them lynched in order to try and gain majority quick, with other Town Investigative such as Investigator or Tracker, you have to be more specific and town may not be convinced that they're evil, and with Lookout, mistakes are much easier to make. Furthermore, it’s very common for Executioner as it fits their investigator result, and since Executioner would be by average in 20-30% of classic games and 40-50% of Coven games, it makes it even more common. 