As an Akali main i feel like this is a huge step to making Akali more viable while not necessarily buffing her damage but rather buffing the way she feels to play by reducing the clunkiness of her kit
Akali
Mark of the Assassin (Q) now restores 40 energy at all ranks from 20/25/30/35/40
Shadow Dance (R) [dash speed went up by 400 * ]
Sachabot3 votesKeep in mind, it's probably a stopgap until the assassin class rework. But good to see, even if I don't play Akali myself.
Kaisa is Hot1 votesYes Im aware of that but she still feels way to easy to counter when the other team has some form of knockup her ult was so slow that it was easy for an alistar to headbut or a janna to q you out of your ult which is a pain in the butt cause it stopped you dead in your tracks..
Hexten1 votesThe Shadow Dance change is a bugfix, when they made her dash a strikethrough, it made it travel slower for some reason. Now since they have been made aware of it, Riot now finally have the time to fix it in the upcoming 6.3 patch when the start of the season has calmed down.
Basically:
1600 missile speed old dash is not the same for a strikethrough dash. It needs to be 27% more for the strikethrough dash to match the old dash with no strikethrough. So 1600 -> 2000 is a 25% increase which is close enough.
More details here: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/ErzYFuxe-gameplay-akalis-dash-travels-slower
TLDR: Akali's dash on the current 6.3 PBE has always travelled that fast. It just has been travelling slower since Patch 5.9 onwards.