Five MORE Surprisingly Underused Survivor Strategies

Rocks, plants, and bait.

Music: Silent Partner - New Tires

[random_jae]

Underutilised strategy: If you think you're going to lose the final tribal, just marry the competition.

[itwasagoal]

It's not an idoled out video without either:
- Luke roasting Candace
- Luke playing David's proposal

[cooperwilk]

I knew there would be no way that Luke could go through an entire HvV segment without burying Candace

[jackfriedman]

Tommy also made clever use of the pre final tribal Day 39 time on IOI, coaching Noura on how she can undercut Dean at final tribal, while conveniently leaving out how she can do the same to him.

[Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong]

Guatemala is such an underrated season. The Bait Blake episode is one of the funniest of all time.

[OkThen]

I think my favorite move is Natalie Anderson pretending to be confused by the split vote, and voting off the person who was less likely to work with her.

[abbyrose]

‘skupins dreaming about… nevermind lets not get into what skupins dreaming about.’ 💀

[hollyburton]

Chase in Nicaragua tried something similar on day 39, telling Fabio that “he was a guaranteed win” obviously trying to get Fabio cocky before tribal council. It didn’t work but I still think it was a pretty smart tactic.

[petermcgill]

Bait Blake is a great moment. Brian is awesome.

[freddytang]

I got one: make a fake idol when you already have a real idol, and walk around with it so people eye roll and think you dont have a real idol. Utilized by Ben and by AK in Aussie survivor

[BrettMKW]

The funniest part to me about the Rupert idol move is that if he did find the idol I'd 100% expect him to just throw it in his pocket and walk around nonchalantly. He's probably the only person who could pull that move off because it's absolutely what he'd do if he had the real idol. We saw how nobody believed Abi had one in Philippines.

[robbierotten]

I won’t lie when the first clip was the intro to Philippines I thought he was gonna mention Zane’s strategy of asking to be voted out to test his loyalties

To be fair it’s only ever been used once, so you COULD say it’s underused

[ci_blanch]

I am not sure that the "rock in your pocket" would work very well now, though I agree that it was a surprisingly genius move by Rupert at the time. I think the better thing to do now is to make a fake idol, but if you previously found a real one and already used it then you can save the note saying that you found it so that you have "proof" that it is real. Another strategy that I have thought of is if you know that you are the target but you find a hidden immunity, try putting in your pocket to think that the opposition believes that you may have one but might also be trying to fake them out. Then don't play it, and if you survive the vote they think that you won't have one. Then at the next tribal council, if you are still in trouble, play the real one! It's risky, sure, and like I said I'm not sure how likely a cast would be to fall for the rock in your pocket trick now, but you may not have anything to lose by trying to buy that extra round if you're truly on the bottom.

Also, I love how Artis is the only member of Tandang that you don't mention by name (though we do briefly see him in the clip). So appropriate given his edit!

[JamesSamson]

Has anyone ever given a fake idol wrapped in idol instructions to the opponent team? Seems like a good move.

You “slip” the “idol” to the person you want out on their team and, with any luck, someone else on their team notices, putting them in the firing line.

If someone on your team notices, you’ve still got a real idol to protect you.

[survivorfreaknr]

one cool one that i like from the international versions:
Locky in Australian Survivor 2017 was able to pick up the idol rules when another contestant dropped them after being voted out.

He held onto it until final 5 when he was on the bottom and the biggest challenge threat (all of the other 4 were going to vote for him), he showed the rules to one other person prior to the challenge and he had the entire camp believing he found the idol. He carried around a rock as well in his pocket I believe to help sell it.

He managed to swing 1 vote his way in the end but got voted out because he gave himself away when he barely lost the immunity challenge and let his disappointment show too much.

[melglobus]

This was a seriously funny episode! I really enjoyed the avocado and Candice moments. You have become must watch weekly viewing for me

[Pshemscoslav]

Number 2 on the list - If I remember correctly, it was also implemented in Palau final 6 when Ian told Katie to vote for Gregg soon before leaving for Tribal Council to make sure that she will be afraid of 3-3 Tie. It's not maybe as game changing as Tony's play but still it was clever

[brdyv]

Ironic that in the last weeks episode that you mentioned Alex in Fiji and then in the next episode of 41 Danny and Deshawn had a similar situation

[mallowout]

Luke dunking on Candace goes together like an Idoled Out video and the David Murphy proposal

[EzraDair]

One really good underrated strategy it’s, never reveal every detail about your advantage, so you can abuse it to your own good. Like when Tony had the super idol but he didn’t tell everyone that it was expired and they actually believed it was valid!!