I basically always try to lynch Poppy Day 3 if he doesn't flip poisoned. I also never lynch hb ever if Sultan isn't day cop.
You can believe me or not due to not immediately discarding Poppy when he questioned why hb is alive unblocked with scan, but Poppy and Kirby are always on my radar after day 2. I also no longer white knight Ben as hard because his motivations become a lot less townish if he's participating in a town/town wagon. I played super chill day 3 on trying to build cases on more people because I knew the chances of me being night killed night 3 was 0.
I think if I have total control of every lynch after day 3 it probably goes Poppy/Kirby -> Kirby/Poppy -> Ben -> Sultan/Chang. Roughly the same path this game took just different first stop. But Ben also plays very differently if not scanned so I can't be sure of that-- just know that in town/town day 1 Ben is not townish to me if he's going hard on SBell being town and the alternative is town. I will also say I probably lynch Kirby not hb if I have total control of the lynch day 2, just because while I do think a lot of pressure on the cop claiming stupidly is healthy, in terms of risk/reward the play isn't there and you can let it play out a bit first.
Like it's easy to say that we have no chance without cop but I think why hb was able to hit two scum in a row was precisely BECAUSE we had a chance without cop, not because he was going super intuition "where did that come from" scanning. That's not to belittle what hb did-- not at all, it's just to put to rest the idea that town was a bunch of clueless idiots without cop scans.
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