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You know when you watch an action movie and you see the protagonist beat the crap of their enemy while you have no clues about what is going on?
That was me just now.
I smell a permaban in ranked like it was with yas early on
the power of god and anime is on her side... the balance team however, not so much
Also, taking a stab at things:
Her Q looks to have changed to be more in line with Yasuo's E. You can clearly see her travel through some targets (Katarina) which are very close. It seems to have retained the reset on kill, a mechanic Riot has said they liked.
She has a shield effect which looks like it might apply damage immunity. Either way it has a damage component on cast (she kills Cass by activating it) and then looks to have a higher higher nuke attached to the end; perhaps depending on the damage it blocks / absorbs / mitigates / what have you. I'd guess this is W.
Her third ability - I'd guess her E - looks to throw out a knife which, upon landing, projects another one in the direction it came at a fixed distance. I.E. there were always be 1,000 units between them, so if you 'throw' it 500 it will shoot the other backwards twice the distance. After both are placed targets caught between them are stunned and marked.
Her ultimate looks to deal damage and create a lotus shaped blade arena, where the blades at the very least act as terrain. All targets hit by the initial projectile - which creates the arena based on who it hits - are marked.
Her mark, which I'd assume is her passive, looks like a double tap system applied by all of her non-melee abilities. I.E. her ulti, stun, and the projectile at the end of her shield. I'd guess it reads something along the lines of "The first instance of damage dealt to a marked target resets Q ability cooldown, the second reduces defenses by X / deals Y damage (we can see a sword icon appear, and break, when she gets her second kit on Kayn and it's not enough to immediately kill him).
So if I had to wager a guess:
She'll be a light fighter with Yasuo-style mobility based on minion death. Her trading pattern looks to be based on getting enemies to blow their loads into her shield (ala Fiora) and then following up by activating and re-activating her mark for Q resets and heavy damage. She'll have an easy time going in with her Q but you'll be able to avoid having her get out by not being marked, while also heavily reducing the damage she deals.
I think she looks way too mobile and bursty to be an actual bruiser anymore, but given how these videos don't reflect actual damage dealt I could easily be dead wrong.
Flashier than a horny recently-divorced wife.
I mean in those videos everything looks intense.
Irelia's new kit looks ... THICC.
FIFY noob ...
[sg-ezreal]
Not looking forward to another hyper mobility champion.
looks awesome.
Looks Yasuo Mobility broken. Thanks Riot for making skill shot immobile mages even more trash in this game.
RIP Yasuo bans, wonder how low his banrate will drop after she's released. With Yasuo's wind wall you can just walk around it, but Irelia's block seems to be 360 degrees of NOPE.
passive: mark targets and any marked target that you Q to will reset your Q(and maybe deal additional damage). Q, dash to a target and deal damage, healing yourself. Will reset if it kills the target. W. Assume a defensive stance and reduce damage done(possibly deflect), then deal damage in the direction it's used. E. spawn a dagger in a position and either another one spawns automatically a set distance or spawn another one, afterwards any target inbetween the line formed from the daggers is stunned. R. create a cage of daggers and mark every enemy hit as it spreads out to create it.
At least this is what I'm seeing. Also looks like she's an assassin now.
Another rework, another champion that has been changed to have absolutely no resemblance to the original concept, except in the most superficial ways.
I'm pretty sure most Irelia mains WANTED her to be more about her blades than the way she previously played.
They've released her kit. It's so fun, though mark my words giving Irelia a ranged AOE STUN is a fucking mistake lol.
A happy mistake, mind. But a big one.
Her passive works to stack a small damage buff when hitting champs with abilities, while autos extend this buff, which stacks. Bonus magic damage on hit - when maxed it grants bonus damage to shields + attack speed.
Q resets on marked targets and kills, heals with each champion it hits. She dashes through them and ends a fixed distance behind them, it seems, not unlike Akali R. EDIT: OH, and bonus damage to minions and monsters. Our home grill may well find a home in the jungle.
W roots her in place and gives her damage reduction, 2nd cast is damage in a line. It sounds like Jax counterstrike, where the damage increases according to how many hits she blocks. Might be duration based instead.
E is bonkers, for Irelia. She tosses a blade to a location, then can cast a second one and enemies caught between take damage and are stunned after about .5s. Ranged AoE stun on Irelia folks!
R has her toss the blades forward and if it hits a dude, deals damage and creates an arrow shaped arena behind them. The bladed wall deals damage if the enemy attempts to leave and disarms them.
E and R mark enemies, and these marked enemies enable her Q resets in addition to kills resetting it.
Top lane is about to get a huge powerhouse, Fiora, Camille and Riven are happy, a nice foursome approaches.
that wall thing has to be her ult. i think she either gains a buff inside it or they cant leave the wall. the dash is obviously her q. she has some kind of sheild as well. looks super fun
Did anyone else notice there is about a mile of empty space between her butcheeks now? Butcracks are not that wide .
It's pretty obvious what's going on for me, because I used to main top, and top is just a bunch of stupid fast combo stuff and sometimes pausing lane. Basically her dash resets every time she marks someone with that circle thing and every time she kills something. She can dash to someone with the circle thing and get a reset, and It looks as if after she marks someone her dash will come off cd if it is on cd. so basically she just dashes a lot. Pretty cool imo, but cc will destroy her cus she doesn't have a shield like riven. Lulu will be a really good counterpick for her.
Is this Cabal? I thought i was playing League of legends.
yo riot can u at least try to make another 
i am really tired of outplayers, putting so much strength into what they could be doing is always problematic 
please give me more 
haven't even seen her kit yet but it looks very, very unfun to play against
My guesses Q: Dash to a target, reset if it kills or if it hits one of those marks W: Stand still and reduce/ignore incoming damage for a short time, then slash blades forward E: Send a blade in a line, recast to send it back to where you launched it from and root anyone it hits R: Line skillshot that creates arena and marks targets hit, not sure if the arena is terrain or just hurts you if you pass through it
DAT FROST BOOTAH HAS BECOME CANON!!
Please tell me the ability that lets her dash a bunch of times is her Ult. If it isnt then it had better have some weird charge mechanic like zyra seed stores and stores charges slowly overtime.
My speculation on this:
Passive: All her attacks mark her targets (dunno specifics of the mark). One of the mark's functions is that if you Q to a marked target you can then recast Q just not to the same target. I'm betting these marks will proc her current "Hiten Style" effect (bonus damage and heal).
Q: Same as live, plus the mark thing.
W: Fiora parry. Some big difference though I'd assume.
E: Spawns a blade somewhere. Then spawn another blade. The two blades make a stun line between themselves and do damage.
R: Throws a ton of blades that fan out into that assassins creed symbol and act like Camille ult except there's a hole at the front so you can't use it as an escape.
Most likely R Active Effect as well: Massively reduces Q cooldown cuz she just repeatedly Q'd Riven in that ult.
they said a few years ago that they want her to be able to duel more than one champ at once her q is still the same with some tweaks i guess