The thing about Wolf: It is not much faster than Lasher. It is slower than Lasher, and possibly other frigates, that are equipped with an engine hullmod if Wolf is not similarly equipped. Because it relies solely on Pulse Laser or a blaster to crack shields, and those weapons are flux hungry and do less damage to shields than kinetics, it will lose the flux war unless it can kite. As for small mounts, it needs at least two, preferably all three, for PD.
Its phase skimmer is its only consolation ever since it lost its Omni shield. The change to front shield has hurt its defenses. Skimmer will not help much if it is forced to fight within range of enemy ballistics, because ballistics (if favoring kinetics) almost always wins.
Wolf is fairly expensive to deploy, and they do not clean up pursuit as efficiently as a Lasher or superior high-tech frigates.
The easiest solution, without changing weapon balance or ship systems, is to change Wolf's missile hardpoints to composites. That way, it can fight kinetics with kinetics, much like Medusa can, so that it is not dead meat as soon as a ballistic bruiser comes in range. EDIT: Or change shield efficiency from 0.8 to 0.6, so its shield can take a beating from machine gun or autocannon fire?