Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34762995-20180521181828/@comment-35356104-20180524134321

Polypies73 wrote: This role list doens't solve any metas.

it probably makes them worse as there are two TPows.

which of course is very swingy. It's only a "temporary solution to COUNTER TOWN CURRENT WINRATE", I'm sure nobody claimed this as the true solution of any meta. It handles the symptom instead of sorting out the cause of all troubles. Solving META isn't something easy and the suggestions are mostly controversial and debatable. The complete procedure including testing might be a little bit long to actually pull out the roots. Why not we do something during the process?

Presence of TPows itself couldn't succeed their meta but require coordination of different roles. What's wrong with using Mayor to compensate the absence of 2 Town? In a more conservative saying: Mayor needs to reveal to gain majority while TP can only choose to protect Jailor or Mayor if Jailor decides to claim on D1. Maybe TP could be a Doc who can't heal a revealed Mayor? Then people might say Any & RT can be TP too! Even in original Ranked role list, having 3 BG & Mayor is possible at the same time. Any slot and replacement of 1 RT slot can also lower the chance of occurence as such. Problems of TPows don't exist because they are impactful, but synergism with other roles does. Jailor meta without TP is a suicidal, without LO is only a half-way success or doesn't even succeed a bit. Mayor is vulnerable to manipulation without proper guidance unless that particular player is MVP.

Swingyness is a consistency factor against the goal of developers to stabilize winrate. However, the good consistency has now fix the winrate stagnant at a very undesirable proportion. It's adding some variables with swingy elements to make room for adjustment. Until the right solution has been implemented, they can simply change back. Nothing is deep. This is just a way to clear problems on surface. Don't jump on the bandwagon of any saying. Understand the concepts and use them at own sense of discretion.