First champ I loved to play, since I was new to mobas and I had no idea what "metas" are, I just picked the champs that I thought are "cool", Shyv here is basically the first champ I loved playing, and that's mostly because of the dragon form LMAO
My first "official" main, basically I discovered Xin Zhao by getting owned by a Yasuo, and back then, I thought Yasuo's name was "Xin Zhao", idk how I made that bad of a mistake but eh XD. I was disappointed when I bought Xin since I found out I mixed up champ's names, but decided to give him atleast a try, and oh man, I LOVED his playstyle, especially when his W was free AS and lifesteal instead of a 2 strike skillshot. I basically played him in ALL roles and remember foolishly trying to be mid and jg at the same time :D.
I sucked at Yas, and tbh, I still kinda do, but the reason why he's here because he's the first ever champ that I REALLY had fun with, the dashes, the ult, the tornado, just awesome.
Talon x Katarina brought her to my attention hehe ;D. Basically taught me how to do fast combos and some rookie "jukes", fun times XD. Since I mentioned him, as for Talone, he's a pretty fun champ, but, I just don't really like the fact that his kit is pretty straight forward, I mean after you blast your abilities, if you someone mess up your almost guaranteed to die. Unlike Xin, whose got that nice life steal. But still Talone was fun, but not that memorable.
Ah Luxxie, my first M7, and the very first champion I started spamming over and over again. She the first ever champ for me to one-trick and she's the reason why I'm good at auto-weaving, landing skillshots, and kiting (yes, kiting). I really gotta give this champ credit for being the one of, if not the biggest reason why I'm good at League now, she is the champ that accompanied me during my journey to becoming a good League of Legends player. She also was the reason why I dumped my other games and concentrated at getting good at League, and got me interested in lore. Thanks, Luxxie
As much as I loved Lux I got fed up having to deal with people like Talon/Katarina/Leblanc who could literally just jump on me and pop me like a balloon, and those "hard to kill" champs like Garen/Darius. I had to find atleast an alternative. I know I could just pick my old main Xin, but people started pointing out that Xin isn't supposed to lane. I asked my friends for help and they slapped me with Fiora. I started playing her mid whenever I see a champ that I don't wanna face as Lux, but eventually moved to top and that's when I truly enjoyed playing her. I learned A LOT from playing this champ too, and most of my first outplays were with madame Fiora. Merci Beacoup, dame au fromage!
First Penta, 800 stacks, that's all, he's a dog too.
Indeed, a wise choice! I didn't main him, but before I discovered Irelia, I had the most outplays with him. No ganks allowed here!
AND now, saving the BEST of the BEST for last, Xan Irelia <3. I LOVE this champ, and for more reasons than one. I started playing her around mid s7, when I was scrolling through the store, trying to find who's a reasonable purchase, when Irelia's splash art caught my eye. I literally just stared at her for 5 minutes, trying to remember if I had seen her be played before, I literally didn't remember somebody named "Irelia" exist in the game, although her name felt familiar. I checked out her kit and decided to give her a try. I loved it. She is the first and only champ whom I get multiple Pentakills on in one game . I did love her kit, and was quite hyped to play her due to the pentas, yet I, for some reason, started to slide back to Lux, and from then on it was 50% Lux, 30% Fiora, and 20% Irelia. Then my League of Legends activity started to decrease, until I eventually stopped playing the game altogether...
UNTIL, Irelia's rework came. While scrolling down on YT one day I came across a vid with "IRELIA REWORK" in the title. Out of curiosity I hauled myself to the PC, did some google-ing and found that Newrelia was gonna be released 2 days from then. So I decided to try out League once more, while waiting excitedly for Newrelia. 2 days have gone by and there she was, on the loading screen, GORGEOUS af, standing in an elegant but powerful pose, with beautiful music playing in the background. I just stared at and observed her for a few minutes, just letting the music and the "feeling" sink in. It was a very special moment right there, I was goin through a ton of troubles at that time, and doing that made me forget about my situation and feel really good again (Until now, whenever I am in need of some sanity, I just search "Irelia Login Screen" on YouTube or just play her theme on the piano and enjoy myself, well done composer!). A few feel-good minutes later, I logged in, and decided to give Newrelia a try. I used the practice tool first to get a grip about her new kit. I quickly noticed that she was harder to play now, yet despite that, I really wanted to learn her again. The first few games were rough, of course, but 20-30 games later I got the gist of her playstyle. More Irelia games later, the fun I had playing her just kept increasing, I never got bored of her, so I decided to one-trick her, and that's by far the BEST decision I've ever made in League. Mah gurrrl, I played in EVERY ROLE in the game, even support (only a bit), and I somehow find myself doing GOOD at her whatever role it might be (I eventually settled in top and mid). She's also the champ whom I experimented on the MOST, trying out different builds, playstyles etc. which gave way to more strategies. Her outplay potential, her q resets, her w, I just can't describe how much I love her rework. She just has so much potential, the potential that I've always been looking for in a champ.
Aside from gameplay, her lore is AMAZING. I have never looked up to and got inspired by a fictional character ever in my life till I read Irelia's lore. Everything about it, the sacrifices, the sorrow, the determination, the defiance, her unbreakable will despite what she had to go through, etc., is just too good for me. I never expected that a League of Legends Champion would be one of my greatest inspirations.
I know, I have already written a ton of things about
here. But trust me, those are only A FRACTION of what I could tell you about her. I'm not Irelia-obsessed here or anything (come on...) but this champ really just had so much to offer me, both ingame and personally. She is truly special to me, I genuinely LOVE her <3