User blog comment:GutsyTick/CC: Hayase, the Bringer of Solace (CB1)/@comment-533780-20150328220122/@comment-533780-20150329154331

The thing I just can't get out of my mind here, is that she essentially has 4 sequences: W into Q, W into E, W into R into Q, and W into R into E. That's four moves...  See where this is going?

Why press 10 buttons rather than 4? It just feels needlessly complicated. I suck a LoL and am not seeing all the beautiful situational interactions?

I get that those extra 6 buttons are adding on token things like R's small damage buff, and that you can wait for the W counterattack and get the Venge moves as an alternative to pressing R for them, and you can get the counterattack-into-VengeStrikes *right after* a quick VetoStrike, and things like that.

I'm just not feeling like it's all worth the complexity, when at the end of the day she has four attacks and a parry/counter.

At best you can, what, W into Q to engage, land the counter and then Venge-E to stick to them, then press R and land a Venge-Q with bonus damage, followed by a Veto-E to finish? Is there a better combo than that? It's a great combo, and you'd feel like a superhero if you landed it all. You hit 5 times, parried once, and dashed onto them twice. It relied on the parry, without which the combo ended with the first dash, and you weren't ultimately in control of whether it happened or not. Obviously that makes you pass the challenge requirement! And you'd have to feel great if it happened. But it'd feel equally sucky to be unable to execute your own Omnislash under your own steam. I guess if your enemies are handling that, you might then be throwing in the more direct W->R combos, but if you do get attacked and land a counterattack in there, it's going to mess up your sequence - you could end up dashing into the enemy team instead of poking them, and you'd just feel like a dork for not realising and cancelling out in time. It's not like you pushed the wrong button, you just didn't react in time to your kit changing on you halfway through the combo. Frustrating, but hey you misplayed, so it should be?

But maybe it's all just about being cool, which she certainly is. A complicated kit is inherently its own flavour of cool I suppose.