Top 10 Best Town of Salem Roles to Play As

Town of Salem is a popular browser game. The best thing about it? The roles.
The Top Ten
1 Jailor

You can literally roleblock someone and decide their fate! 3 executions before later jailing for info is pretty OP too. Plus, you get to be a hidden major town role, seen by mafia and neutrals as 'not useful compared to the mayor and doc, for example.' The amount of power you have is amazing. However, it is still somehow challenging, which is still a pro, not a con! Probs the only role beside the witch which I am happy to get twice in a row.

Jailor is my favorite role in ToS so far. Psychic is just behind here.

Jailor can talk with another person in jail mainly for their roles or for protection if mayor revealed. You can do jailing every day and can execute up to 3 times.

Finally, I play jailor a lot.

2 Witch

Witch can pretty much get a free win if the team up with mafia and know what they are doing. It might as well be a mafia role at that point.

By far one of my favorite roles. When you find out the Serial Killer or Mafia you have complete control over them. It's the funniest when you make them kill themselves. Plus, you find out the role of the person you control so it's even MORE overpowered! Love this role!

I personally love this role. So fun to be able to make others commit suicide. Gives no leads. Also, you find out other roles. As a neutral you can win with town, maf and evil! This means if you be convincing, you can avoid getting lynched.

3 Jester

You don't have to team up, you can just claim "my role is Jeff" or something stupid and get lynched, say nothing at all. Claim Investigator with a Sheriff will, and so on, just to make people suspicious of you. There are so many ways to win with this role, and the panic after you get lynched is the most satisfying thing to exist.

This is a fantastic role, it combines memes and awesome strategies to form this ultra being. This being can decide the fate of anyone. I believe that this role should be #1, and make sure that you have jester scrolls, so you can experience the fun more often too.

4 Werewolf

There is just something so ridiculously satisfying when you attack like 3 people in one night! Even two. I have to say it is overpowered considering it's a NE and hardly ever winnable :P. For example it's a 5 mafia game and they all start whispering to bob. Lookout and investigator gets suspicious and all investigate bob that night as well as the mafia and you decide to visit that house! That would kill 5 people (presuming there is a janitor) and BAM there is nothing that can stop you!

Night immunity, and your attacks go through others' night immunity? Overpowered. Makes you unkillable if you stay quiet and away from the lynching post. Best character in my opinion and there's also the multi kill feature. Amazing combo with a witch if the witch leads targets to you.

5 Serial Killer

SK is legit the best, I also like the Arsonist because they are both insane mofos that Roam the streets setting stuff on fire and stabbing people endlessly. THE BEST ROLES.

Being immune at night makes you feel safer as a Serial Killer (SK for short). Serial Killers kill one person each night.

I don't have to force by a Godfather and kill the ones who I want to kill.

6 Transporter

And the Transporter said unto Mafia, "Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself." But lo he could not, for the Transporter was hitting him with his own hands.

This role is way powerful in the hands of a smart player that knows how to use it. Getting evils to kill themselves is a great feeling.

Last townie alive? Better be a transporter. They can win by themselves against the whole mafia.

7 Mayor

People say mayor is boring, but its such an important role at the end of the game. Who doesn't like feeling like a secret spy before revealing, and famous after? people tend to miss use it though, which is why the roles not that popular

Just three more votes and that person will be on the stand! The Mayor's vote counts for three people.

Busting out that reveal at the right time and flipping the game on its head is fantastic.

8 Arsonist

All you have to do is douse someone each night, then ignite yourself for the finale! Arsonists can douse as many people as they want and then they can kill all of them with one click. The downside to this happens if there's more than one Arsonist. Somehow, an Arsonist can die from being doused and ignited at the same time even if it's the first night.

Night immunity? Check. Mass murder? Double check. FIRE? Check check check McCheckity check! While this is a pretty hard role to win as, it's probably one of the most entertaining. You're a threat to everyone, and I mean everyone. Other Arsonists and even Witches. Besides, who doesn't like burning their enemies alive?

9 Veteran

I said "I am vet If you don't believe me come at me. I went on alert and I was visited twice so I shot them and they both tried to attack me. I ended up killing the SK and Mafioso All in one night then immediately Someone said "with VET" Someone else said, "Wow nice Vet".

Veterans have 3 alerts, which they use in case someone visits them. Then, a Veteran will kill the possible Mafia and/or other attackers.

Vet is OP if you get it right. Once Town won the game because both maf and ww attacked vet and he killed them all. Really its if you can lure the maf to come to you.

10 Survivor

In my opinion, I HATE SURVIVOR. No one ever believes you even if you tell them over and over again that you are survivor. You only have 4 bullet proof vests at night which is pretty stupid.

My favorite since you announce night 1 and hope for the best. I love getting that whisper from mafia near the end asking me to join them.

This is my favorit role. It's so nice that don't have any pressure on you

The Contenders
11 Blackmailer

One of my mafia buds has the sheriff visiting them, and we were in so much trouble cause of that. BUT I had gotten lucky and decided to blackmail the sheriff! We ended up getting the chance to kill them the next night and they never even got the chance to tell the people what they found!

Who doesn't love silencing people? Blackmailers can mute someone so that that person doesn't speak the next day. It helps to keep them from revealing the Mafia.

When I'm the blackmailer, I ask the consigliere to find the invest or sheriff, and then I silence them for the entire game. so much fun, and gets them really pissed off!

12 Executioner

A good executioner is so much fun, manipulating the town against eachother and causing paranoia and coming up with bs reasons to execute someone, if you play it correctly, you can essentially become a survivor with night immunity and a win under your belt after you get your target killed.

Getting "flawless executioner" and killing someone twice in one game is something I can take to my grave to be honest, my favorite Neutral Evil role for sure. Even if your target dies at night, you can be Jester which is almost as fun.

13 Sheriff

I just like it. It can be OP if you investigate the right house, cause if there ain't a framer you know who to vote out.

Good for catching evils early on. Watch out for the occasional "shut up exe"
SIDE EFFECT: may lead to the untimely death of the user

Only weakness framer? Awesome!

14 Doctor

How can one of the most important role, be this low on the list?

15 Consigliere

Consigilere just provides so much power for not being the godfather. With it just giving you your exact role, it just makes it overpowered in gameplay.

The Consigliere is one of my favorite roles because in the late game you can be pretty much omniscient.

My favorite role. Claiming invest and watching the town do whatever you say is exciting beyond belief.

16 Bodyguard

I love it! I gives me feelings of power and whenever I reveal I'm bodyguard my house is never attacked, and I almost never die! I once saved the doc's life cause they almsot died at their house.

I love this role. It's a protective role but with an ability to kill. Sure, you inly get one kill, but at least you're sure that it's the bad guy.

You literally will die by protecting someone you know. 1 Heal only given. The worst role.

17 Spy

I love reading in on Mafias conversations it's so funny when they think no one is listening. It also gives you a good chance to predict what they are going to do and warn a bodyguard or jailor to protect that person.

You get so much info to use for scumreading. Your one of the most useful roles for a medium and can totally stop a witch from joining up with non-town or find an evil if they do it anyway.

Simple. It shuts down a huge section of the mafia's roles. Framer? "Hey the susp guy was visited by maf" Consig? You can't be honest with your nights if you make an invest will. Disg? "Hey this guy shows up as bg and the bg was visited by maf." As well as since you are visited by maf you are almost confirmed to not be maf.

18 Godfather

I don't think I have to explain this. You literally get to boss around 3 guys to do your business and your only fear is the investigator.

Godfather is hands-down best role in Town of Salem. It can kill, immune at night, won't show up suspicious, has a miniature army, and can influence the other maf's.

The Godfather is immune, he chooses who dies, AND has a whole family to support him.

19 Investigator

How could so little people vote for this role. I love this role so much. Maybe people don't like having knowledge about what roles people are. Just like the Consigliere they will most likely know what role everyone has.

I don't know dudes like
This role is so much fun to me?
Once I found out a member of maf and wrote it on my will
The night I found another maf member was the night I was killed, but the medium was still alive
and I guided the town into killing the last maf member
Hands down, the best invest role in my opinion.

20 Amnesiac

The amnesiac has the rare privelige of choosing their own side and teammates, leading to an extortionately powerful role with a choice of who they want to work with, leading to a whole range of possible plays dependent on the tactical balance of the game.

Best role in the game, an executioner, godfather, serial killer, werewolf, or vampire dies in-game, and you can just anonymously choose those roles.

It's a good role if your tired of getting a random role(I've gotten retribution 7 times in a row :l), you can basically choose! I wouldn't rate it too high tho cause you really just rely on somebody to die, and it can be hard to get high-powered people to die.

21 Mafioso

Pretty good, you can still win if you get lynched and if you are good, you are unstoppable.

22 Vigilante

Honestly, I have the more wins than both Godfather than Mafioso combined (32+ 27 = 59 )Wins as Vigi : 62 I bought all my merit points one time just for this role. scum reading with vigi is extremely satisfying when you shot one of the Mafias.

Having the power to actually shoot evils instead of having to get town to hang them is good.

I just like tbh. I like being able to kill and shoot without townies voting you out 100%, cause your a townie as well.

23 Disguiser

This role is so weak, if someone disguises as someone else all the town member has to do is wright their REAL name in their will, Boom, RIP disguiser, what would make this role better is if disguiser was combined with janitor execpt maybe let the town the persons role. But there are some times where I'm stuck with an idiot town and I'm disguised as and I leave my name in the will but they ignore it.

Disguisers swap roles with someone and their character dies as the swapped player.

It's my favourite role! You can steal all the trust someone has!

24 Medium

It's a great role to play as, easy to claim if you are evil too. Talking to the dead is chill and when you die you can tell a townie and turn the game in a different direction, this is a great role and my favorite town role.

AT night you can just either taunt people who died or even just legit say you mostly gonna die rising suspicion from the dead chat! Best role

Mostly easy to confirm and you can have fun if you know how to read the game.

25 Juggernaut

By far a,one with pest the best role in the game. You power up every kill you get and can kill jailed people

It wasn't until yesterday I learned what a juggernaut is...

SO COOL - mysterious, so many people know nothing about it...

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