Clarify Dashing Flight's description

[Darth Bokeh]

It should be clear from the description how an ability is to be used but Dashing Flight has me puzzled.

"While you Dash, your Special is faster and deals +100% damage."

From trying it, it seems to be affecting your Dash-Strike, like Artemis' Hunter Dash does.

If that's the case, it would be much clearer to say:

"Your Dash-Strike is faster and deals +100% damage."
(if you want to be consistent with Hunter Dash's description - "Your Dash-Strike deals more damage.")

Before I tested it, it wasn't clear at all that it affected Dash-Strike and I was trying to figure out if the expectation was to toss the shield and then dash while it was still in the air. Since it DIDN'T refer to it as affecting Dash-Strike, I assumed the wording was intentional and that it did something different.

[Specific Beef]

Dash-Special is distinct from Dash-Strike. I tend to avoid it because it's trickier to combine A + Y than the A + X of Dash-Strike, but if you hold the controller a different way you can pull it off pretty consistently.

[Darth Bokeh]

Oh yeah, I forgot that strike is for attack.

A better description would be:

"Your Dash-Special is faster and deals +100% damage."

You're right - A+Y is trickier to do than A+X.

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

If I'm not mistaken, if you are in dash-motion when the special hits, it does the bonus damage.

So saying dash-special is misleading as it implies that the effects only occur when using dash special.

[Darth Bokeh]

Interesting. Before I wrote the original post, I tried to compare the speed of the shield mid-flight while dashing (toss-dash) and it seemed to only go faster with Dash-Special. It was hard to see though so I could have been mistaken. Because of that I assumed that the damage was normal too.

I think it's more misleading to say:

"While you Dash, your Special is faster and deals +100% damage"

Because if you use Dash-Special then the dash is over by the time you activate the special - the shield is traveling through the air after the dash is finished, so shouldn't be going any faster or doing any higher damage according the the current wording.

It's also far easier and more intuitive to use Dash-Special rather than Special-Dash.

I tested it Special-Dash at the time and it felt unusable because each dash lasts a split second and the travel time for the shield/special varies by distance from the target.

The implication from the current wording is that you're expected to toss the shield at a target and dash madly around, hoping the shield hits the target in the time you're dashing. With a close target you'll hit it before you're able to dash, losing out on the damage. It also implies that the speed of the shield is speeding up and slowing down mid-flight as you're dashing, which seems silly.