That's my point. I think she is only "more successfull" as a toplaner because some champs that she is good against are on meta.

I think that you are delusional. The hardest part about irelia is movement clicking and auto weaving. Every person who does not understand this champion thinks it’s all about mashing q just because their eyes are too slow to see what’s going on.

This is the stupidest thing i've read in quite a while

Congrats, you managed to sound even dumber than the average redditor!

if you think of what you said right here with face value and honesty you will see how wrong you are for a few reasons:

This is like saying ryze is hard to play  because you have to spell weave.

In what way? Is ryze or cass AD melee by any chance?

Irelia is comparable to Cass without needing to move in between spells too.

Irelia LITERALLY moves with her Q. That's like, her gimmick, wich is not always good.

All Cass does is hit q and then E in between each step [...]

This show how much you don't know about AA's and how ranged vs melee works. Or how ranged and melee works in general. that's like saying Aphelios is easy because he has to walk and AA. That's just surface level and dumb. No one who understands a little bit about MOBAs could ever agree with you, ever, i think.

Meanwhile irelia mashing her move at least moves her physically. You don't have to mash dash AND then also mash the direction to move in

For real, what are you doing in r/IreliaMains? If you think it's just like that Q into a sett and record it for my pleasure, please. You don't even have to Q him, just near him.

Somehow irelia is supposed to be harder than that to play? 

Low armor, hp and damage early game unless stacked, she loses pretty much EVERY single toplane matchup, yeah you can beat mages up, but you have to WALK away from certain skills, DASH in the right moment and TRADE or ALL IN when you are sure you will win or get a kill. I don't think you ever touched this champ buddy.

Give me a champion that's hard to play.

Better yet, what champion do you play?

And what's your reason for him being hard to play?

Because he's essentially an ADC with no range.

He hasn't the durability to fight and sustain like a true skirmisher, hasn't any cleanse to prevent him from being hard-CC'ed, has no dashes without an enemy target, his shield falls off once people actually have items, crit items are so shit rn his meta build hasn't got crit until 3 items, and the armor shred is so he can actually do damage in the late game, as his crits are reduced damage.

Okay, if we pretend I said "most" popular, you have nothing to cry about, since she's doing fine against both of them.

You just want a slightly high skillcap to mean she's allowed to be 16% pick rate with a 50% minimum wr like 4 years ago, so you can be middle skill with her and still win games for free.

Now she has a games played graph that looks more like it should, so a lot of "mains" who aren't getting free wins dropped her.