Among Us Why Impostors Win More Than Crewmates
The Impostors in Among Us have been revealed to win games more often than the Crewmates do, but why is this the case and how do players change it?
Impostors seem to control the game in Among Us, and they win more often than the Crewmates do, but it doesn't have to be that way. Among Us' Impostors have smaller numbers than the Crewmates, but thanks to their ability to vent into small areas and sabotage pieces of machinery from a distance it can feel as if the Crewmates are only prolonging the inevitable when trying to escape from their attackers. However, Among Us' Impostors aren't undefeatable - they're just overpowered.
In Among Us, players can choose to have either one, two, or three Impostors roaming the map. With the maximum amount of allowed players, this means that there can be three Impostors and seven Crewmates scattered around an Among Us map at any given time. While seven against three seems like pretty good odds for the Crewmates, developers at InnerSloth have revealed that, more often than not, it is the Impostors in Among Us who end up winning. Why are the Impostors winning more than Crewmates in Among Us, and what can be done to stop that?
Impostors have more abilities than Crewmates in Among Us, and they also possess the game's only offensive action - the ability to instantly kill other players. While Crewmates can't technically kill the Impostors in Among Us themselves, they can vote during Emergency Meetings to banish the Impostor from the group, an action which usually results in the Impostor's death. Crewmates can toss Impostors out of airlocks, push them into lava pits, and drop them from high-rise research stations onto the ground below. Crewmates in Among Us may have less offensive attacks than the Impostors, but they also have plenty of chances to save themselves - so why don't they win more often?
Among Us' Crewmates Destroy Themselves
Unfortunately, this all comes down to the way people interact with each other. Among Us players are forced to debate before being allowed to vote a potential Impostor off, and the combination of people lying in order to not appear "sus" and players who are simply new to the game and confused by the rules or tasks can throw off a conversation quickly. Impostors in Among Us have gotten very good at stack kills (a method of killing another player within a large group so no one knows who performed the murder) and self-reporting (killing a Crewmate in Among Us and then instantly reporting the body before anyone else can find it), and both of these actions not only reduces the total Crewmate body count but also sows mistrust among players who were working together to complete tasks only seconds before.
Another reason Impostors win more than Crewmates in Among Us is that players tend to want to be the Impostor more often, leading to many games where players who get assigned the role of Crewmate simply disconnect at the start and open up a new lobby in order to try again. Because so many people want to be the Impostor in Among Us all the time, total Crewmate rosters are rarely filled up, as at least one or two random players will usually disconnect when a game starts. If that particular Among Us game has a full roster of seven Crewmates and three Impostors, and then two of the Crewmates bail immediately, its hard to think of a way the remaining Crewmates could have a fighting chance.
Among Us' Impostors win more often because people have a tendency to argue and mistrust, and also because too many players disconnect early or don't do the tasks they are assigned to. If Among Us players who prefer the Crewmate role want to get their numbers up, they need to start acting smarter. Move only in groups of three or four, where there is always at least one witness, and try to be as clear and concise as possible when talking in Emergency Meetings. Don't disconnect early and leave fellow Crewmates stranded, and don't do things like call an Emergency Meeting just to say "What's up" to everyone, because there's no faster way to get a Crewmate to purposefully vote off another Crewmate than that. If Among Us' Crewmates tighten up their game, maybe the Impostors will be the ones with the losing streak next time InnerSloth releases player stats.
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