Isaac, What Irelia Should Have Felt Like

I have long felt like Irelia missed her theme - she telekinetically levitates her blades and...swings them at you in melee range? Honestly, Talon's kit is more in theme with Irelia than her own. So I bring you:

Isaac, the Hiten Savant

As Irelia's younger brother, Isaac would greatly expand on the mental control of weapons. His sibling is a serene, graceful Elder of Ionia; he is none of those thngs. A fiery temper fuels his talent for the Hiten Style as he channels his spells with raw emotions. A "true" AD Mage - mana bar and all - this is a champ many players have been hoping for.

Passive: Hiten Mastery- Isaac is surrounded by 6 hovering blades. When he makes a basic attack, he sends his first blade to the target. The blade stays on the target while it remains in range and attacks autonomously. This counts as a melee basic attack. Attacking a new target sends the blade to that target, leaving the previous one.

Hidden Passive 2: Arsenal - Whenever Isaac buys an item that is a melee weapon, one of his blades changes appearance to match that item

Q: Force of Will - Isaac fires a blast of energy that passes through targets in a straight line, dealing damage and applying a slow. Any blades hit are thrown perpendicular to the blast, dealing damage. If a blade hits a champion, it acquires them as a target. Otherwise, the blade returns to Isaac. Blades lodged in a champion hit by the blast are torn out, dealing bonus damage.

W: Expanded Mind - Isaac gains control of a new blade for each rank of this spell. Casting on a target sends a blade surrounding Isaac to the target. If that target is being attacked by an existing blade, this spell lodges the new blade in the target and causes a bleed effect. Each new blade attacking at once substantially reduces Isaac's base attack speed.

E: Ringing Steel - Isaac sends all controllable blades surrounding him up in the air and crashes them down into a ground-targeted area, hitting one target closest to center but prioritizing champions. The blades remain there for a few seconds. This counts as a melee basic attack

R: Outburst Passive: critical strike chance enhances the damages of Isaac's spells, up to 33% bonus damage at 100%. _Active: _ Isaac conjures 6 blades of pure energy that fly into the air around him. These blades join in casting an ultimate manifestation of one of his three powers. Q: Isaac slams all surrounding blades in a cone, dealing massive damage to enemies hit by a blade and propelling all deployed blades. W: All blades converge on a single target, each successive blade dealing reduced damage. All are melee basic attacks. The blades then return to Isaac. E: Throws a single conjured blade to ground targeted area as the rest lodge themselves in every nearby enemy champion currently attacked by a blade. After a 1-second delay, all lodged blades violently drag their victims to the ground-targeted blade.

As an AD "mage", Isaac's ult passive helps bridge the gap in scaling felt from lacking . His greatest damage sources are single-target and treated as melee basic attacks, forcing him to rely on for significant sources of AoE and on for dealing with tanks. An extremely low possible base attack speed helps stymie broken levels of damage output once he maxes W for 6 blades. It could also be reasonable to apply his unique interaction with crit chance to all basic attacks so he would not ever get crits in the typical sense.

This would be a sustained DPS mid-range caster who requires setup for his burst. While immobile, he would also be a possible pick for the bot lane as an alternative to Varus, trading less poke for better teamfights. His crit chance scaling and the setup of his spells would allow his AD ratios to be lower than most AD casters, which would also help curtail the early game pain train typical of similar champs. The biggest sticking point I see would be how he interacts with because he's either always getting a crit, or never. So it's infinite mana regen or none at all. I feel this should be core for a champ like Isaac, so it'd be great to have a special rule on his abilities to bring it in line.