Survivor Island of the Idols episode 5 power rankings: Playing on a Switch
With the players ready to be swapped about, the Survivor: Island of the Idols episode 5 power rankings looks at who has agency regardless of tribe.
16. Noura Salman
Noura’s true allies remain in Vokai numbers, but she’s still on the very bottom of those numbers despite the 9-7 split heading into the swap. More importantly, she had the power to tell her tribe the upcoming Immunity Challenge, made up a lie about having to have a certain role as if it was a rule, and was still overridden by the tribe, forced to sit out the challenge completely.
Now she doesn’t have a vote heading into one of the most important moments of the pre-merge. That’s a losing combination.
15. Tom Laidlaw
Tom has been targeted for elimination a few times on the Lairo tribe, and now he’s heading into a situation where he is likely swapped into a numbers deficit as the oldest guy on his tribe without players like Chelsea vouching for him. Missy wanted to target him earlier, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s targeted if he swaps into a Vokai-majority tribe since he’s a straightforward “tribe strong” player.
14. Janet Carbin
The fact that Janet hasn’t been targeted early on Vokai speaks to her character and standing on Vokai. However much she’s part of the strategic conversations, she doesn’t seem to have anything of a personal narrative so far. She’s kinda just shown as one of the people talking to the power players despite nobody coming after her.
The uncertainty of a tribe swap might present itself a scenario where old Lairo could outnumber old Vokai, and she’d be the kind of player conventionally taken out.
13. Karishma Patel
Though Karishma is a prime candidate to flip on old Lairo in the case of a tribe swap, her position in the game doesn’t scream “power player capable of driving votes.” She’d be the tenth on a “Vokai strong” mentality should they pull off a Pagonging, yet she’s also the Lairo player thrown under the bus first. She doesn’t have much agency left in the game.