How to Play: Jailor

Town of Salem163 views3 favorites3 min readby maxfield ☆Updated 5 Feb, 2023View on Steam ↗

Overview

Jailor is a unique town killing role that is extremely powerful. Every day, you choose a player to jail, stopping them from performing their night ability and allowing you to talk to them anonymously. After the first night, you can also execute your prisoner, dealing them with an unstoppable attack. You can execute 3 times, and if you execute a town member, you lose all further executions. This role is extremely based on skill and a little bit of luck, definitely not a good role for beginners.

Who To Jail/When to Exe

Night 1: you should jail either a fake jailor claim or a non-claimer. Since you can't execute, this is used for getting further information to use in the future. Ask for a claim right away and if they are real, they will likely respond quickly. However, if they are fake and haven't thought of a claim right away, they will likely take a while to respond. Late claims night 1 can be an early sign of an evil, so keep this in mind.

Night 2: Jail someone who either wouldn't claim when asked, or had an obvious fake claim but the vote was split. If an exe tries pushing target day 2 very aggresively, consider jailing them. Any neutral benign or neutral evil claims (surv, amne, exe, jest) should be exed as they will likely only cause further corruption in the town

Night 3: If you didn't exe anyone night 2, you should try and jail somebody who hasn't talked/voted in favor of town night 3 (unless there is a confirmed evil). They are likely a slient neutral killing or a mafia/coven member. Ask for role and will right away, and if they stall at all, exing them is a safe bet. If you did exe night 2 (and it wasn't town), jail a neutral claim and threaten them with execution if they refuse to side with town.

Night 4-End of Game: At this point you should have a good idea of who's town and who isn't. If it seems that town is losing majority, start going on a rampage. If town holds a healthy majority, be more passive and maybe revisit your Night 1 target if they aren't yet confirmed.

Other Scenarios:
- Since revealed mayors can't be healed by docs, jailing the mayor for protection and having the doc stay on you is a good idea
-If you're trying to find out who the WW/Pest/Powered up Jugg is, jail who you think it is and make sure that you say who you jailed before the night and not just in your will. Also make sure that while doing this TP/LO stay off you
-In the unfortunate event that you exed a town member, start using your jails as rbs, and you can use this to find out Mafia killing/Coven roles

When to Claim

In general, claiming jailor D1 is risky. There could be other jailor claims, no TP/LOs, or framers/arsos/hms. Try to avoid claiming right away until there are TP/LO claims, then whisper to these claims telling them your role. Chances are not all of them are going to be fake, and one Tp is enough to save you (unless its crus and the crus kills wrong visitor). If you are the victim of a VFR (vote for role), make sure to claim fast with a will ready. Fake claiming as something else (like surv) is risky, but if done right, evils will whisper to you asking for your votes and you can exe them.

Conclusion

Happy exeing!

Btw this is purely based on my style of play, u dont have to follow this guide to win

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