Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171025060017/@comment-31256456-20171026005853

Here comes my point.

Bodyguard. The thing about doctor staying alive is simply countered. it doesn't destroy any mafia. It buys time and that's it. Now with the new rolelist, Doctor has become less and less useful as town investigatives take over. BodyGuard can still be a good threat to mafia, although now TI seems to be the only really good roles for town (or jailor). The problem with doctor is that although protection is permanent, it's not reliable. It can't heal mayors when revealed, it's a low chance your target will even be healed. Even if you did heal that person, it's just not as useful as other effects. BodyGuard can reduce mafia, and make good trades. It's generally accepted that a mafia-town trade is pretty good. If you have a doctor, often you'll be stuck and nothing really would happen the whole game.

There are a few arguments I want to argue against. Let's start with the easiest. "Doctor stays alive when it heals" And leaves mayor hanging with possibility of death, oh, and have I mentioned trades? Retributionist could possibly revive if there was a bg, which would make doctor even more useless. Doctor has a self heal which is cool but just stalls more time. Often time is no longer the key as I said in debate 3 and it's more about finding ti. With bodyguard it can possibly, just maybe kill a mafia, deconfirming it..whereas doctor sits like a dirty mop moping a dirty floor- not fixing the problem, and only temporarily preventing mafia from destroying town. "Doctor can do a lot of things bg can't like heal poison" Again, can't heal mayor. And have you ever seen doctor kill a mafia member? Weird that he doesn't murder the mafia, he has a knife and could spend time killing while healing??? "Doctor better in late game and in two v one." Obviously false. Bg can remove the threat which in late game there should be only one left. If not, well town is pretty screwed anyway, don't ya think? But stalling for time is not helping town, and just slowing the game. Unless you think a tie is good or something.