The RE45 damage is ridiculous..

I view RE45 same as Wingman = high risk, high reward gun.

If you hit your shots, yes, it is probably top tier DPS gun(s) in the game also giving you freedom of movement while shooting / harder to track you.

At the same time I find Wingman harder to play vs as it can be used even in long range fights not to mention mid and close range, damage is also still insane = if you randomly hit a headshot that is already 90% win rate right there.

RE45 can be kind easily? countered due to wind up pause and clear sound queue for it. Basically if you have cover and good positioning you can counter it indefinitely vs e.g. turbocharged Havoc or Devotion.

Unfortunately have to say that these both are much more fine-tuned for controller player and AA where hipfire is more accurate vs MNK input so that you can do both = shoot accurately and dodge full speed when using above mentioned combo. When using MNK I can say that RE45 is much harder to use and in many cases experience is similar to R99 (either you hit all shots or you miss all shots), tried to run it this season but quickly reverted back to options like shotguns, akimbos, volt, car, havoc, devotion.