Thread:TheSheriff1/@comment-32994909-20180421102407

I see you think that Sheriff is an amazing role, if not the best role in ToS. Well, I beg to differ.

1. Sheriff is unreliable

- Executioner claims Sheriff all the time, and since it shares the same investigative result with Sheriff it is difficult to tell two apart. Not only can this get an innocent townie lynched, it can also make town doubt a real Sheriff's results and allow Mafia to defend themselves by calling their accuser an Executioner.

- Framer & Hex Master exist. Although Framer is weak, Hex Master is stronger as hexed targets remain hexed for the entire game. Not only can this cause the actual Sheriff to lynch an innocent townie and make that Sheriff look evil, it can also, again, cause town to doubt the Sheriff's results even if the target is not framed/hexed and can even make the Sheriff doubt his own results.

2. Sheriff has limits

In Ranked Mafia/Ranked Coven, it cannot find the Godfather, Coven in possession of the necronomicon, Arsonist or Neutral Evil. It can find Werewolf, but only when it's rampaging and can die when finding a Werewolf who stayed home. In non-Ranked it cannot find Neutral Chaos.

They don't even get a clue that the above roles could be evil, Sheriff has quite fixed results.

3. Sheriff is a scum claim

Noticed Sheriff is one of the most claims made by evils in the entire game? That's because it's the easiest. You do not need actual results like an Investigator, you can just write all your targets as 'not suspicious'. Lookout and Tracker are much harder to claim as you do not know who visited who, claiming Psychic may be dangerous if all three of your evil results are townies, and only Mafia/Coven can claim Spy, but can't if Mafia and Coven are in the same game. Sheriff can be claimed by literally any scum, Mafia, Coven or Neutral. 