Irelia might be the new darkin?
With the Irelia rework incoming and the new darkin being announced as a female, how far fetched would it be for the next darkin to be Irelia?
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That would be an insult to Irelia's fans.
Not quite. With her soul bound to a blade, she's not really a "Darkin", but more of a "Darkin Imitate". Like, the same thing, but much younger, with no clue about her potential or the thing that she is now. Irelia could be an "human imitation of a Darkin", so to speak, which would change pretty much nothing of her story, because she still got her old body to wield the posessed weapon.
While this would almost change nothing with her old lore, I think in future Darkin lore, this might be extremly relevant.
I think that's just recency bias, if you look at how long it usually takes Riot to get around to fulfilling story beats you'll know it can be a long wait. Aatrox was released 4 years before Kayn, the last Void champion was Rek'Sai and that was 3 years ago, etc. Some stuff they have in development already and that's why they tease them a lot, but if you look at all of the 2017 champions and reworks, the only real story that led to another was Kayn into Varus. Zoe might have also set up for the Void incursion which will likely happen later this year, but other than that some story beats for champs like the Vastaya and Ornn are gonna be awhile before we get updates on.
Plus I mean, literally a couple weeks ago people were saying Irelia was wielding a World Rune because people thought she was the girl with the dress in Zoe's lore, so who even knows at this point :P
Well her souls kinda bound to her blade i feel like that is kinda the opposite of a darkin, plus varus's lore mentioned "the five" (aatrox top, kayn jg, varus adc, ?? mid, ?? support) i assume, and irelia is top like aatrox therefore probably not ireliaa the darkin blades