I don't think I'm willing to extend all too many town points towards Alyssa for the duel. Far as I can tell Melkor was basically outed, using the duel any other time than right then would be sure to invite a lot of questions down the line.
I don't agree that there would be too many questions asked to save the duel for later on
I am kinda dipping into self meta with this but my gameplan as a wolf with the role I have would more likely be to get myself into a good spot socially while I help my team navigate around mech/fake claims/etc, and then try to use my duel in the midgame somewhere to leverage my social positioning to get an inconvenient flip for town when it matters (plus with how fast I got the wish on day one, it would be way more beneficial to try to maximize value from it some other way like to get a better idea of what town has access to rather than to build a neighborhood with 1/3 of the playerlist lol...)
meanwhile as town in a very mech heavy game, it's significantly better to simplify the game down as fast as possible so that we aren't dealing with complex mech webs that are more likely to be distractions than helpful as time goes on; the way the duel works makes it very good for resolving a slot that is just going to get resolved anyways while still allowing town to get a productive day of wagoning and voting without the day being stagnated; plus neighborhoods are very townsided when used effectively and it did end up being so for us this time too
if I'm town for anything then it's for just townsiding with all the mech available to me, you don't necessarily need to have any familiarity with me for that (although just knowing that I'm very much a mastermindy mech tryhard as a wolf would probably also help frankly)