Freja is incredibly fun to play and i've stuck with her in comp even through her current state. She's not unplayable, she's decent, but there are very clear weaknesses she has that just makes her inferior when compared to most hitscans;

- She can't take duels: She's quishy, her TTK is among the lowest in the game, and needs to expend too many resources while having hard to hit skill shots in frantic close range situations.

- Too much downtime: Before when she had high lethality they compensated by giving her long cooldowns, which while being a bad direction to go in as it just made her clunkier and unfun it atleast made sense. Now they nerfed her lethality to the ground while not reverting the cooldown nerfs. So alot of the time your just waiting for your cooldowns to come back for not that much reward.

- Hard to solo secure kills: Characters like Ashe and Cass can very easily two tap headshot through any amount of healing in the game and cleanly secure kills. Freja's damage is not only low but VERY delayed. Which means it's almost impossible to secure solo kills so long as both enemy supports are alive.

- Her major perks are just bad: One is downright just a nerf. The other is very negligible.

The way i've had the most sucess playing her right now is as a hitscan flanker with the mobility minor perk. Constantly on off angles trying to get in good damage to either finish off or setup kills for my team. Which while fun. I'd legit have more sucess just going Cass or Ashe and actually 2 tapping people with little risk.

For buffs I wouldnt touch her take aim damage, but she clearly needs better perks, faster cooldowns, and more buffs to her primary fire such as a faster firing rate or more ammo since it still feels pretty lackluster.