User blog comment:JmLyan/Zine, the Blade Dancer/@comment-24420226-20160116000300

She is a champion I can visualize playing. Just be reading the abilities, I can clearly picture how she might play out in real time. You're go-to engage is to shoot a blade using her W (passive or active) or Q, then follow up with her E which is her real moneymaker in terms of burst damage. When last hitting, you try and line up the enemy laner with the minions you're last hitting for free harass with her W passive. You can use your Q>E or W> combo as an escape as well. In short - her kit has a (mostly) clean design that I can imagine functioning in a live environment.

However, her mana costs and cooldowns get so low, there is almost no penalty for misusing her abiltiies. It's somewhat remnescent of Jax more than Irelia, though I think his leap strike still has a slightly longer base cooldown than this girl's E. Then you add the ultimate into the mix, and holy cow is this chick one mobile champion. It's like Yasuo's dash, except you can effectively dash to anywhere you want since you can throw a blade to the spot first.

I also don't understand the reasoning behind her passive. Not only does she not benefit that greatly from spell vamp when all of her abiltiies are AoE, the only reason she would buy lifesteal is because items with big AD values sometimes happen to have it (Ravenous Hydra, Bloodthirster). There is no reason to go out of her way to accumulate lifesteal. This is further compounded with the fact that Death's Dance exists and more or less does the same thing. The passive seems random and redundant on this kind of champion.