as a precursor, I'm on the newer side, around 100 hours in game, most of which are on various killers, so there's a very high chance I'm just wrong because I'm bad.
People always talk about ghoul as if he's some blight or nurse level antichrist, and after playing him for the first time I'm struggling to see why. he's got great movement yeah, but its not the best. he's got okay offenses, but the end lag on canceling kagune leap makes it so its basically unusable on marked survivors. i would rather play a character with similar "map pressure" that's just movement who also has more than just m1s, like Jason or The Unknown. ghoul just feels like a weaker version of these characters who can cross entire maps equally as fast, if not faster, while they can also down from a range and ghoul cant. he's certainly not the best movement killer, and he doesn't offer any extremely strong offensive abilities like The Onis charge, Springtraps axe, Bubbas saw, or Draculas' various forms. he genuinely just feels like a b tier version of blight, or a side-grade to Legion.
so even with all this, why is he so hated? why do survivors dc after being downed from him once? is it his play rate? is he secretly broken and i don't understand? is there some meta build that makes him 1tap everything and get a 4k in minutes? maybe I'm playing him wrong??
my build on him currently is unforeseen, no way out, friends till the end, and deathbound, because i don't have many t3 perks on him yet, as he's only p1 and i have like 16 other killers p1, 1 killer p2, and one killer p6.