Okay so I recently picked up Ela again after maining a few other operators.....
She is too weak.. Like I am seriously noticing a problem with her. Her Evo has no damage to it. As it stands right now her Evo does 23 damage with 1000 rate of fire, her evo seems like it ACTUALLY does like 10 damage.. Its that weak. She is so weak that I am literally getting kills stolen from me because of how weak she is. It's either kills stolen or I take a death because the person turns around and headshots me or lights me up every time. It is coming to the point now where she is virtually useless as a roaming operator. You cant even sit with her on the objective without being killed.
With her rate of fire + the 23 damage output she is considerably weak and not useful in any way. Its like you are shooting a BB gun at the enemy operator who indeed has a REAL GUN. This needs to stop. Ela needs a damage buff because as it stands, shes going to be benched.
For the most part you'd be going against 2 armors so you'd do 90% damage which is 21 damage inside of max effective range. That's five shots to down six to kill. At 1080 rpm you're getting more than enough rounds off to net kills before they turn on you. It sounds like you're missing. not to mention her recoil is getting better with the sight misalignment fix.
I have no problem with her aiming, I think it is perfect the way it is. I just cant do damage to people unless I get straight headshots on people when I use her and even that is a hit/miss situation, theoretically thats how it should be... She needs a damage buff, its becoming too problematic with the amount of fall off damage there is and how quickly it falls off. You literally have to be point blank with people if you want to take them out with body shots. Same goes for Black Beard, he is suffering the same problem as Ela, minus the damage part because his gun does good damage but his bullet path and recoil is trash.
Ubisoft currently has a nerf to ela in the test server (her ela mines are becoming less effectve) so I dont think ubisoft is looking at an ela buff anytime soon. For me personally, her ela mines stun effect just isnt that good, and compared to lesion she has worse guns, worse utility and no impacts. The only good thing was that it messed with the victims sensitivity, but they are nerfing that aspect. I guess she has 3 speed, but so do jager and bandit.