Why not massclaim?

[Alyssa The Lamb]

I think massclaiming in Mini Normals is very strong for town. Until the Normal review group begins to subvert expectations, three town PRs is pretty much a given. You see 4 or 5 PRs you know at least 1 is scum. Then you can hunt in the VTs.

What's your source on this? Most mini normals I see have 4-5 town PR's.

Yeap

[Alyssa The Lamb]

If setups are designed well, scum can predict what town PRs are there

[Alyssa The Lamb]

Now that I think about it, countering a day 1 massclaim was important in larges a while back, but I don't remember seeing anything about it anytime recently

[Alyssa The Lamb]

I don't think claiming d1 in normal games is very good right now either

Generally scum need to have more finesse than town to use their PRs correctly and setups trend towards being townsided anyways; those two factors make massclaiming day 1 less useful since you give up that potentially gamelong advantage for a day 1 advantage, where you already have the least amount of indo to work with

It's better if you can reasonably expect PRs to have little effect on the game, which is not exactly easy to do in the current setup meta on the site

Plus there's some roles which have to lie because they'd be outright broken (lolneopolitan)

[Alyssa The Lamb]

I'm specifically speaking about massclaiming d1

If you're going to get little info from PRs anyway, then you might as well get the d1 advantage