Orianna
* Global spell cooldown reduced to 0.15 seconds from 0.5
* Clockwork Windup
Base damage adjusted to 10-50 from 5-30
Damage amplification per stack increased to 20% from 15%
Maximum stacks reduced to 2 from 3
Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.15 from 0.2
* Command: Attack
Missile speed reduced to 1200 from 1275
Cooldown reduced at later ranks to 6/5.25/4.5/3.75/3 seconds from 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 seconds
Damage reduced to 60/90/120/150/180 from 60/100/140/180/220
Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.4 from 0.6
The Ball now responds faster to Dissonance and Shockwave commands
* Command: Dissonance Ability Power increased to 0.7 from 0.5
* Command: Protect
Cast range increased by 100
Ball leash range is increased by 100 when attached to an allied Champion
The Ball will now respond faster to Dissonance and Shockwave commands
* Command: Shockwave
Cast time increased to 0.5 seconds from 0.4
Fixed: Shockwave no longer stuns units for longer than the duration of the movement
If the Ball forcibly leashes back to Orianna, Command: Shockwave will go on a brief cooldown if it is ready
To be honest i think most of these changes are well justified.
Her autoattacks now deal more damage and only require 2 hits to deal 20% more damage with all your spells.
The speed of Command:Attack always felt just that little bit to fast, making Orianna VERY dominant in mid due to her large amount of zoning. She can now use her abilities more often as well, so her damage is more consistant also.
The increase in damage to Dissonance seems to be overlooked by most but since its her most reliable damage when trying to win her lane with Zoning, it could make her rather scary in lane.
People say "but the math says she deals less damage", no it does not. She now only has to her AA her enemy twice to increase her damage by 20%, her cooldowns and global cooldowns are much shorter, her strongest ability while zoning now deals even more damage as well. The way her passive was before, you pretty much never had full stacks unless the enemy ignored you, now you can utilise your passive more often and increase her damage output.
TL;DR
Orianna has more consistant and reliable damage.
Orianna has greater damage potential now.