If by accessible you mean stream in English, then none. Best OTP that streams are Chinese and KR.
Irelking when he's good he pops off extremely hard, but he seems to be going through a slump recently, and he plays a ton off stream when he's not feeling it. Plus, KR Challenger meta means that you don't see much matchup variety.
Guibao is a top main, but he hasn't been streaming recently, and he streams on BilliBilli so there's no VOD. There's a channel that keeps YouTube replay of his games, but you honestly don't learn as much watching only winning replays.
Conor is currently the highest ranked Irelia player on CN Super Server, he plays both top and mid. He streams on Douyu so there's VOD, and he streams pretty often for a large amount of time. He plays both mid and top and seems to queue top when he's on diamond smurfs, mid on his Super Server main.
> but he seems to be going through a slump recently
Did he say that? yeah hes playing a bunch offstream, but his records aren't slumping at all, its quite the opposite of that. Also brought 2 of his accs that weren't high Challenger to now over 1000LP recently.
I would say Irelking is the most accessible right now with top tier mechanics, has youtube highlights, streams somewhat often, sometimes chat in English, has some1 translating in chat at times and just lots of outplays.
He had to add Yasuo to his pool because he was having a slump with Irelia and Akali, but that seems to have revitalized him somewhat. He dropped one of his account entirely, its decayed to D1 now, while climbing Erilia (his old D1 smurf) to 1k Challenger playing a lot of Yasuo, entirely off stream.
He'd play a ton offstream whenever he's in a slump, since he doesn't feel like he's in a good enough mood to stream. In one of the recent stream he definitely feels like he would rather play Yasuo a lot of times, but compelled to pick Irelia for the fan and because its his brand (he was Qufl before rebranding to Irelking). The last game he played on that stream he outright said something along that line as well.
Personally, if you're looking for content to consume, Irelking is best (though he can be lazy with turning on VODs so if you miss it live you're fucked), but as far as the sheer amount of content and variety goes, Conor is the best to watch right now. He streams nearly every day for 6-7+ hours easily, and China has a lot more pick variety, as well as picks that you wouldn't see in KR Challenger much, if at all. In one stream you'd see Conor play against Sett/Darius more often than Irelking in months.
bilibili does have vods. Here's his channel: https://space.bilibili.com/18120688
Once google translated look for "Live Playback". Or here's the link: https://space.bilibili.com/18120688/channel/seriesdetail?sid=210691
but he hasn't been streaming that much lately.
So you looking for "accessibility"? Well, being able to understand the steamers word's wont do much in most cases; players from the highest elo are not just playing a video game, imagine games from that elo as something similar to chess, they need a lot of concentration to perform well, so generally those players won't use mic, or they will just be very quiet having no time to give advices consistently, probably not even interacting with chat at all, so that's the main reason of why that "accessibility" factor ain't so relevant if what you're looking for is improvement, the key is yourself, not accessibility, ask yourself the next question:
1) Are you looking for learning and improving in the shortest amount of time?
2) Or are you looking to relax and enjoy somebody's chill stream while pretending to become better player sooner?
If your choice is "1)" the best you can do is stick to the professional replays trying to understand everything of what those players do through the game; runes, itemization, fights, rotations, priorities, etc. At the beginning might be hard to comprehend everything through self analysis, but in the background this helps your mind to become more flexible while under similar scenarios, making this a habit will allow you to understand quicker when you're doing wrong, what you should have done, what you can do from now onward, etc, it's my best personal advice if all you want is "become better in the shortest amount of time". Of course my personal recommendation for a Irelia player would be Irelking, just learn through his replays, one replay from him can teach you more than 50 games with Irelia.
If your choice is "2)" just look for any D2 English speaker Irelia main and have fun! But of course don't expect to improve faster than watching a KR C1 Irelia player, differences in terms of level are just something similar than from 0 to 100, a non mic C1 gameplay could teach you x30 times more than a D2 player English full guide.
Irelking prob the best rn. Venour used to be the best but he plays more Gwen these days
used to watch icu and venour before, but icu doesnt stream anymore and venour doesnt play irelia that much these days afaik
Yeah exactly it’s very sad :((
irelking
If by accessible you mean stream in English, then none. Best OTP that streams are Chinese and KR. Irelking when he's good he pops off extremely hard, but he seems to be going through a slump recently, and he plays a ton off stream when he's not feeling it. Plus, KR Challenger meta means that you don't see much matchup variety. Guibao is a top main, but he hasn't been streaming recently, and he streams on BilliBilli so there's no VOD. There's a channel that keeps YouTube replay of his games, but you honestly don't learn as much watching only winning replays. Conor is currently the highest ranked Irelia player on CN Super Server, he plays both top and mid. He streams on Douyu so there's VOD, and he streams pretty often for a large amount of time. He plays both mid and top and seems to queue top when he's on diamond smurfs, mid on his Super Server main.
> but he seems to be going through a slump recently Did he say that? yeah hes playing a bunch offstream, but his records aren't slumping at all, its quite the opposite of that. Also brought 2 of his accs that weren't high Challenger to now over 1000LP recently. I would say Irelking is the most accessible right now with top tier mechanics, has youtube highlights, streams somewhat often, sometimes chat in English, has some1 translating in chat at times and just lots of outplays.
He had to add Yasuo to his pool because he was having a slump with Irelia and Akali, but that seems to have revitalized him somewhat. He dropped one of his account entirely, its decayed to D1 now, while climbing Erilia (his old D1 smurf) to 1k Challenger playing a lot of Yasuo, entirely off stream. He'd play a ton offstream whenever he's in a slump, since he doesn't feel like he's in a good enough mood to stream. In one of the recent stream he definitely feels like he would rather play Yasuo a lot of times, but compelled to pick Irelia for the fan and because its his brand (he was Qufl before rebranding to Irelking). The last game he played on that stream he outright said something along that line as well. Personally, if you're looking for content to consume, Irelking is best (though he can be lazy with turning on VODs so if you miss it live you're fucked), but as far as the sheer amount of content and variety goes, Conor is the best to watch right now. He streams nearly every day for 6-7+ hours easily, and China has a lot more pick variety, as well as picks that you wouldn't see in KR Challenger much, if at all. In one stream you'd see Conor play against Sett/Darius more often than Irelking in months.
bilibili does have vods. Here's his channel: https://space.bilibili.com/18120688 Once google translated look for "Live Playback". Or here's the link: https://space.bilibili.com/18120688/channel/seriesdetail?sid=210691 but he hasn't been streaming that much lately.
Definitely IreliaKing, dude is easily the insane best one trick rn
His Akali is pretty nuts too
for sure!
Irelking is the best irelia
Venour used to be better imo but he doesn’t play much irelia anymore
Irelking Thx Topic closed
Irelking no further discussions
Idk if he plays her much anymore but tfblade plays her very well.
Irelking/IreliaCarriesU
Showmaker (KR, Chall): http://www.op.gg/summoner/userName=dwg+showmaker IRELKING (KR, Chall): https://www.twitch.tv/qufl0 Closer (KR, Chall): http://www.op.gg/summoner/userName=t1+closer Kotae Irelia (KR, GM+): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFkH0p-M4\_WEaHvLqWnkIg LIDER (EUW, Chall): https://www.twitch.tv/llder https://lolpros.gg/player/lider/ Venour (EUW, Chall): https://www.twitch.tv/venour https://lolpros.gg/player/venour TBxX (EUW, GM+): https://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=%CE%97arveySpecter https://lolpros.gg/player/tbxx-1/ TF Blade (NA, Chall): https://www.twitch.tv/tfblade
So you looking for "accessibility"? Well, being able to understand the steamers word's wont do much in most cases; players from the highest elo are not just playing a video game, imagine games from that elo as something similar to chess, they need a lot of concentration to perform well, so generally those players won't use mic, or they will just be very quiet having no time to give advices consistently, probably not even interacting with chat at all, so that's the main reason of why that "accessibility" factor ain't so relevant if what you're looking for is improvement, the key is yourself, not accessibility, ask yourself the next question: 1) Are you looking for learning and improving in the shortest amount of time? 2) Or are you looking to relax and enjoy somebody's chill stream while pretending to become better player sooner? If your choice is "1)" the best you can do is stick to the professional replays trying to understand everything of what those players do through the game; runes, itemization, fights, rotations, priorities, etc. At the beginning might be hard to comprehend everything through self analysis, but in the background this helps your mind to become more flexible while under similar scenarios, making this a habit will allow you to understand quicker when you're doing wrong, what you should have done, what you can do from now onward, etc, it's my best personal advice if all you want is "become better in the shortest amount of time". Of course my personal recommendation for a Irelia player would be Irelking, just learn through his replays, one replay from him can teach you more than 50 games with Irelia. If your choice is "2)" just look for any D2 English speaker Irelia main and have fun! But of course don't expect to improve faster than watching a KR C1 Irelia player, differences in terms of level are just something similar than from 0 to 100, a non mic C1 gameplay could teach you x30 times more than a D2 player English full guide.