To explain that Yuriko/Robot read a little more:
I've thought about wolf approaches to the setup quite a bit and I think that wolves would explicitly want to have only one member in the coalition. The setup guaranteeing at least one wolf in the coalition guarantees that lynches hit that pool first and having only one wolf in that pool makes it easier to milk more mislynches from it before said wolf goes down. In that sense, I think that the wolf that enters the coalition is highly expendable and would, preferably, be the
weaker
of the two wolves. In a wolfteam that competently planned out the game and had the skill to execute, I would fully expect the strongest wolf to be absent from the coalition. I think as a collective that we have implicitly assumed that wolves are desperate and cornered rather than directing the game in the direction that they wish it to go. I think that going into this game with a simplistic 'wolf are going to push for one or both to be included at all costs!' mindset doesn't apply unless we assume that both wolves are newer players and have little confidence in their abilities.
Robot/YurikoJasmine fits the bill a lot more to me in terms of what the wolfteam would actually look like in this setup.
YurikoJasmine got a few lazy villa reads (including from me) for I'm not sure what exactly, she's done literally nothing and pings me at a few points and is independently a good candidate for wolf. Robot has played this game like tryhard wolf, explicitly aimed to be excluded from the coalition (which is
good
for wolves if the other partner is making it in), has made goes at several people that to me are obviously villa, not least of which is myself.
As I said earlier, the main goal of the wolves in this game should be to knock villas out of the coalition to get wolves included. This is the optimal strategy because it looks good as an individual to be picky about who you include in your coalition and it avoids the major pitfall of 'why did you push so hard for a wolf to be in the coalition' which is liable to get wolves absolutely murdered by associatives. On the other hand by vetoing villagers until the village acquiesces and includes a wolf, you look like a villa for aggressively sorting your coalition and some other villager who gets resigned to including said wolf after obvious villagers have been vetoed takes the fall for the wolf being included in the coalition. I think that this is exactly the kind of late game focused gameplan that I am seeing from Robot/YurikoJasmine pairing in this game.
1) Yuriko slot, the slot that's being groomed for the coalition in this table, is low in Robot's readlist but high enough to be reluctantly placed in the coalition later. I would expect Robot to not want his partner in the coalition yet and to try to be able to make it as a 'compromise' later in the game if necessary and Robot has perfectly positioned Yuriko as a compromise placement inside his coalition. Yuriko on the other hand has been hard distancing from Robot and in a way that doesn't make much sense, which fits perfectly with a wolf gameplan where Robot may need to put Yuriko in the coalition but Yuriko is free to make Robot look as bad as possible.
2) The interactions themselves are just sketchy, it's hard to put words to it here but their interactions are sort of forced and 'clipped' in a way that feels like they're forcing them to happen. Yuriko's "NSG and Robot wolf" is a pretty typical wolf distancing post and furthermore there's no explanation given of why Robot is ever wolf, they just end up being wolf out of nowhere and Yuriko doesn't say anything about that. Also worth noting that she called Musicjax 'null, leaning wolf' which is pretty typical wolfbuddy interaction as well.
3) Independently ignoring all the other things that tie the slots together I would call both these slots my strongest picks for wolf. DVa redeemed herself a lot and I think I was just tunneling there, Raya36 isn't like absolutely a villa but feels villa-y enough to me, and there's not much that says that my initial Gamma Emerald read was wrong either. That's not even looking at my harder village pool where I feel fairly confident that none of skitter30, northsidegal, or tesxx are going to flip wolf (maybe less sure on TesXX but we'll see what happens when that slot gets a substitution.)
Then you look at the way that probs a robot has been systematically attacking villa reads on several of the villagery players and yurikojasmine has also been targetting northsidegal (not overlapping in their targets mind you) it does look like they're working together to discredit the village core enough that yuriko gets definitely included (and she has already been likely to be included for a while, so, yeah.)
