Why does no one play Nemesis?

I played today against 5 Nemesis,granted only rank 7 survivor

I dont know what you are talking about. A lot of people play him.

Event is on so very few people are playing licensed killers in general.

Frankly his power is nothing new and he sucks. Unless you are a Resident Evil fan, there isn't really anything that makes him appealing.

Nothing special... Yet the only killer in the game with AI helping him XD

He has the best build in map pressure arguably, since the zombies can kick people off gens.

I was just in a Nemisis game. I get matched up with him a lot, in my opinion. I've had several today.

I see him often, so it's not like no one is using him, but there is such a large pool of killers that it's normal that we don't see all of them all the time.

I use him a lot and he has some problems that hold him back.

Right now there is 0 reason to play him over pyramid head

He barely works without the game freezing

Nemesis suffers in chases in that it takes three hits to down a survivor with his power. The fact that survivors get a speed boost from infection - something that causes no damage - is not only ridiculous, but smart teams of swf purposely take advantage of it. That right there is a big reason to not play Nemesis.

Well if you're one of the many unfortunate souls to play on console, using his power is a death sentence. I'm talking 2-4 second freezes. If you are talking just about him in general, the new chapter high has come and gone. He's just an m1 killer with some range and the occasional zombie play when they aren't busy vibing in a corner. He has all the many weaknesses of a standard 4.6 killer.

I play him on console and power through the freezes out of spite. If I still get a 4k through all of the freezing that acts to limit my ability as a killer main, then I am content

Nemesis is quite fun against survivors that try to loop him like any other killer. Against survivors that know what they're doing and don't vault blindly or always drop the pallet, he is considerably less fun.

Basically, he's not high ranks viable.

Everyone and their granny is playing Nemesis. For the past 3 weeks he's been in at least 2 games a night.

Poor mobility, his power at max strength is a weaker version of what huntress or pyramid head can do at loops

Honestly, as someone who really tries to get somewhat good with each killer, Nemesis is severely disappointing. His power is to hit people over pallets and through windows and attack with essentially the range of a lunge attack, but only if survivors are already infected. And they never stay infected for long. And it's a very narrow, easy to dance around attack.

Basically his only power is a highly nerfed version of Pyramid Head's shockwave, if the shockwave could only hit one survivor and only damaged survivors that are afflicted with Torment. If you're a good M1 killer, it can be kind of useful in chases and, if you get a good hang of its range and speed and all, can be put to decent effect. It can also be used to destroy pallets and resume chase much faster than stopping to break it, and can also prevent Blinding at pallets as well, that is if you manage to get it to Tier 2 (good luck against Red Ranks).

But you still have nothing to affect any other survivors. There are zombies yes, but only two. And they move so slow that they're really only useful in highly cramped maps where you can sort of corral survivors and cut off their escape routes. I've played about 20-30 rounds with Nemesis and have only ever had the zombies be useful once, when one happened to spawn and block a pallet in a loop allowing me to snag a down.

To be honest, even if they made it to where the Tentacle Strike damaged and Infected healthy survivors, it still would be a very lack-luster power. This is NEMESIS we're talking about, this guy should be as powerful and intimidating as the Oni, but instead he's basically the Trapper. M1 killer with a power that's 90% useless.

Long and the short of it, why play an M1 killer that survivors mock and laugh at (and leave the entire map open to gen rushing while in a chase that takes 3 times longer than any other killer) when you have almost every other killer with abilities that can actually apply pressure to survivors?

He is a noob stomper. More experienced players drop pallets early to avoid M2 and generally ignore the zombies.

I see him all the time.

It’s so quick getting to tier 2? And tier three isn’t so bad as long as you’re making use of zombies and hitting survivors.

I’ll usually m1 until I’m at tier 2 or it’s an easy window/pallet hit at t1.

He isn't really strong and his power doesn't really work in the current meta