Even though a majority of players will disagree with me, but I found the initial change of 270+ day login rewards not bad. Getting a useful and unique legendary instead of 4 sacred shards and 4 five star chickens is better in my opinion.
The loss of chicken was for me never a loss. I regular particapte in fusions and therefore I have normaly an abundance of food champions anyway. Due to the limit storage size and tournament requirements I have to level them anyway. On the other hand the loss of sacred shard was painful and had negative consequences for my particpation ability in summon rush tournaments.
After reading Scion kit again and again I still do not find any value in him. Honestly, for me this he is as bad as Yaga the Insatiable and he is the worst of all free login champion in my opinion. For me it is a slap in the face to get a very bad epic after 450 days. I leveled some non-meta champions, because they have a value for me, but Scion's kit is really terrible. In my opinion almost all epic champion can be usefull, but some are really bad. Unfortunately Scion is one of the really bad ones.
In this particular case getting a terrible epic champion instead of 2 5 star chickens and 2 sacred shard is a very bad deal. I understand that we will not get an overpowered champion via the login rewards, but I expected that we get a useful one like Dark Elhain, Grush the Mangler, Visix the Unbowed, Scyl of the Drakes or Cleopterix.
Why did Plarium choose this weak epic champion? I understand they do not want to provide 5 star chickens and sacred shards without doing stuff in the game. These are valuable items so I understand their argument.
If they do not have a useful login champion for us than it would have been a possibility to provide us a XP barrel and a feast via those login rewards. Everybody, who has approached midgame and beyond knows how many champions you have to level up to beat certain content in the game (e.g. secret rooms, faction wars, etc).
As Christmas is approaching I hope Plarium improves the kit of Scion, so that he is at least useful (currently he is not) or we get some different rewards like XP barrel, feast or as other people proposed life tokens or the sacred shard and the 5 star chicken instead of this epic.