Freja by Cooler39140

1) That range is only active when Hunter's Precision is. Therefore, forcing Freja out of such positions is key to deny her improved damage, which also scales more slowly than Valla's passive overall. Valla can reach up to 80% more damage from an attack (up to 140% with the talent, tho might be 110% on average), while Freja might maybe get this to 50% with her lvl 1 talent on average. Granted, it does not need stacking unlike Valla, so maybe some tuning would suffice. If things would be broken in the game, nerfing the range bonus to 1.1 could suffice.
2) She does not have a scope, but she has to slow herself down in Overwatch to even aim [Take Aim]. How else are you replicating the fact that she has to aim her alt fire? On a similar note, she does nothing related to actual bounty hunting in Overwatch either, she is just a sniper there.
3) Maybe.
4) That's the point. It makes you upgrade that riskier mode, or at least it is supposed to be risky.
5) You already get to stack it thanks to the talent itself, and it's a good thing imo that you are committed to the build from early stages, as then there is no random shift in expectations of counterplay as more talents are acquired.
6) Sounds like it's a beef with heroes like Valla and Sylvanas, who have high attack speed and damage modifiers attached to them (their passives). I can't say how bad this would be in practice, as she is only an internet concept, not a HotS mod. Maybe it is slightly overtuned, but again, it sounds like the concept of a high damage ADC is not what you just personally like.
7) because there are no monsters as a distinguished entity in the game? The name is symoblic, as mercenaries are usually monsters anyway.
8) It's meant for the AA build, so that you can use the range more often and still kite enemies. Y'know, enabling you to actually perform ADC duties and not be a knockoff Sgt. Hammer. Again, it might be that just 1.1 bonus range is enough.
9) Same as 6), random beef with characters like Valla, Sylvanas and Fenix.

Bola Shot deals AoE damage, but it's measly compared to The Hunt Begins. The trade of ults is between having actual utility and improving the reliability of your AoE damage, as the AoE from just Aimed Arrow is not that real in 5v5 combat. It's 2.5 range, which makes it rarely hit more than one hero at a time.

The kit might seem crazy, but what does Freja really offer? She is a selfish hero, offering basically only damage, personal mobility and waveclear. It's the same school as many other ADCs in the game, where they all excel at damage, sometimes waveclear and mobility. If anything, Freja might now be too similar to Fenix it seems, as she also has only one damaging basic ability like he does, and she 'switches' modes like he does, while trading have more baseline attack speed at all times with actually being less mobile without her abilities.

I'm glad I've read another person's comments that your way of commenting is condescending. You've not proven me wrong. Your statements are relatively shallow, as you are not trying to explain why, for example, over 2 attacks per second with/without Giant Huner is suddenly so bad. I appreciate the suggestions, but again, Freja does nothing related to bounty hunting in Overwatch, nor is Bola Shot a reliable source of AoE damage for me to redesign The Hunt Begins. At best you might think it is, because you get a more guaranteed proc of Aimed Arrow's AoE, which is still less than The Hunt Begins over time.

*Edit: I get what you mean with the no scope on Freja, as she doesn't have one, but if I go back to making only her Aimed Arrow gain more range to replicate that sense of aiming to fire a high-burst shot, then it's the Hanzo problem again. If I discard the concept entirely, then Freja is just Nova, but significantly better (as you have pretty similar hero killing, but also get waveclear innately on top of having utility now in both of your ultimates); she won't maybe one-shot a hero like Nova, but other heroes can do that while not sacrificing macro utility. If I also make her current Hunter's Precision slow her attack speed down, she then powercreeps Fenix basically. At this point it's a tough crossroad of design that if I stray too far away from, would make Freja basically not really Freja from Overwatch, and none of the Overwatch heroes so far have gone so far away from their Overwatch designs just to fill the not-yet filled bills in the game.
Hence, I fear she is doomed to being the way she is right now, so that she actually stays close to her Overwatch gameplay. It could be that her niches are just not needed to be fulfilled in HotS itself. Regardless, I hope you understand that no matter if she has abilities as though she had a scope or not, her niches would overcrowd the options of other heroes either way. Either Fenix with way better mobility, or Nova/Hanzo with way better mobility.

I can see why, though I do aim to replicate the gameplay loop of an Overwatch hero into HotS as closely as I can. This means that at least to me, in order to faithfully translate her gameplay loop, her Aimed Arrow might need to resemble Hanzo's Storm Bow. Or like in my previous concepts from over 5 years ago, I might need to bend the game's rules a bit to achieve that goal for any particular hero. I might see what I can do to differentiate Freja from HotS Hanzo, though I suspect there isn't much room for it without pushing her away from her source kit.
As for her basic attack, it's your standard basic attack.