[6.3 PBE] Akali's Shadow Dance dash speed increase literally does jack nothing
The Shadow Dance dash speed increase on the 6.3 PBE cycle are empty changes. After capturing video footage of Akali's dash speed on live and on the current 6.3 PBE cycle and comparing them, the amount of time it takes to complete the dash is still the same.
This is what I have observed:
- On the current live servers, Akali's dash travels at a static speed throughout the dash flight.
- On the 6.3 PBE cycle, Akali's dash travels slower at the beginning portion of the dash then it picks up speed rapidly throughout the dash flight. This causes the time to finish the dash to be the same as on the live servers.
Therefore the 400 missile speed increase does absolutely nothing to make the dash complete faster, it's just a visual illusion.
So actually, there's no point in increasing the missile speed under being a strikethrough dash. A strikethrough dash, for some reason, enforces a pre-defined duration for the dash to complete in. This also what happens when there is no room for the strikethrough to complete - it slows down the dash speed inorder to meet the pre-defined duration.
More details here: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/TVBuLKw6-attention-strikethrough-users-akali-fizz-yasuo
Solution: To further test this out, increase Akali's dash speed to be a very high number, i.e. 5000, to see if the times it takes to complete the dash remains the same. If it does, then the real solution is to remove the strikethrough on Akali's dash given to her since Patch 5.9, and compensate her with another change instead. Regardless, the strikethrough hurts Akali alot more since she was not balanced around a strikethough especially with all these issues arising.
The purpose of the strikethrough is to increase Akali's ability to chase and stick onto targets. This can be achieved in other ways.
TLDR: The current 6.3 PBE dash speed increase to Akali actually does nothing. Its an empty change and does not fix her dash speed bug.
