Why so much Legion hate?

So during beta testing everyone was screaming that Legion was OP

everyone was still saying he was useless

@LegitAdventurer said:
I still don't get why people are saying he's useless? He's basically a better The Spirit.

A better Spirit?

Legion depends on loooong games. His ability, used to hunt multiple people, doesn't mean the first he hit is significantly damaged, but needs to spend a few seconds mending to be right as rain. So, while using his ability to chase multiple people slows down the game a bit, it does so at the expense of Legion's time downing a survivor (the time required to move from target 1 to target 2, and then complete the chase).

Furthermore, his inability to quickly down survivors means that his power works as much for him as it does against him: Target 1 might need to mend briefly before getting back to work, but Legion has to slowly follow Target 2 out of Frenzy before maybe getting a non-Frenzy hit, or waiting for their power to recharge for a third hit, and then waiting for the power to recharge to get a forth hit.

Additionally, if Legion happens across a healthy survivor and hits them without Frenzy, they lose their entire Frenzy meter and must recharge it from scratch. Meaning, just hitting a healthy survivor punishes Legion by depriving them of Frenzy. And, unlike Spirit (or any other killer), a pallet slam save, or flashlight save doesn't mean Legion has to chase the caught survivor for 1 more hit to recollect them, but has to start from scratch in the entire chase sequence, requiring an additional 3-4 hits, depending on add-on's.

Alternatively, Spirit can phase immediately to where the survivor is running, break phasing and get the quick down.

As for perks, aside from the always useless perks such as Territorial Imperative, every other killer can greatly benefit from Exposure perks. NOED, Make Your Choice, Devour Hope... these are very powerful perks which are all-but useless on Legion because Frenzy attacks do not trigger exposure. Instead, if Legion tries to use exposure perks, they have to run at slower than standard movement speed and risk being looped endlessly in the process. Until they add in the changes they suggested yesterday, there isn't even a point to healing against Legion, or as the Dev's said, "this is the time for the No Mither meta."

In the end, killers don't get kills (aside from Nurse) because the killer is so amazingly awesome, but because survivors make mistakes. They don't throw the pallet at the right time, they don't know where the infinite loops are, they try for a window they can't make, or hit it at the wrong angle and don't get the fast vault... Legion is the worst killer at capitalizing on those mistakes. Worse than Freddy, as at least Freddy has normal killer movement speed.

Compare this to Spirit, who can use Prayer Beads to approach targets completely undetected, who can use exposure perks, who can not only take advantage of bad loops, but eliminate them entirely by parking her husk to body-block a pallet... Additionally, she can mind game the hell out of a survivor. If she's standing still, they don't know if she's phasing or waiting for the survivor to run straight at her. If she's standing at a window, she might be vaulting, or she may be waiting for the survivor to loop back for a second-jump and an easy hit.

It's very much like when Freddy was released and, despite how weak he was, people complained that he was OP because they simply didn't know how to play against him. The same is true for Legion. He isn't a better Spirit... or a better anything. He may benefit from being new, and people not knowing how to counter him, but that isn't going to last long.

As an aside, you clearly weren't watching the Dev streams or going on these forums during the PTB. There were nothing but complaints about how awful a killer Legion is. The Dev's justification: it's more fun to not be competitive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cnfq_JJy0

I'm just going to give my slice of this pie (that made no sense, but whatever).

I like the idea behind Legion. A group of friends that became a Killer together. It opens up the door for so many other new Killers.
I like how their ability is supposed to discourage tunneling by making you go after someone else.
I absolutely LOVE vaulting over pallets as a Killer. There is just something so satisfying about that.

With all of that said though, the execution was atrocious. Rather than get FOUR friends, we got TWO, while the other two were locked cosmetics (that look cool, and I've said before how I can understand it, but SERIOUSLY, they weren't able to fully live up to what Legion is). In addition, I've seen more people complain about Legion tunneling than I think I have ANY OTHER KILLER. So obviously, they failed at that. And (even though I can't really vouch for this, since I haven't played Survivor recently) they seem more annoying to go against and waste way too much time (from playing them, I don't think they waste ENOUGH time, but that's just me). I had pretty high hopes for these guys, but they fail at what they're trying to do.

At least we can still vault pallets (just remove the Frenzy end for being stunned. Please).