Can this ever work in town's favor?

[callforjudgement]

It strikes me that there's probably not much disadvantage to claiming the coming night's targets on the day before lylo. (That said, sometimes people just fullclaim then; it's a viable alternative to the more common lylo claim.)

Doing it with specific-night roles doesn't work because then everyone will

know

you're a specific-night role. (On the other hand, a non-investigative role, i.e. one whose role effect still works even if they're dead, typically has no reason not to fullclaim when they have one shot / night left, unless they fear a roleblock from scum.)

[callforjudgement]

Oh, I like the "hypotarget for each role" method. It'd be useful for scumhunting even beyond trying to make fakeclaiming harder, in that it'd give you a good view of people's reads.

One issue is that it might make it easier for scum to determine which players are least likely to be lynched (to aim the kill), but they can often do that anyway, especially in smaller games, and if the game does have a doctor they have to trade off between killing a universally townread player and running into the doctor.

[callforjudgement]

You can still break it down by category, "I think the best target for an investigative role would be A, for a protective role B, for a killing role C". If you act against that you'll get some weird looks at massclaim, and it helps clarify what your current views on the setup are.

[callforjudgement]

You do the best you can and then people judge your actions at lylo.

This doesn't have to be 100% objective.