So, with recent Elise nerfs heading to PBE, lets discuss the future of Elise

"But those are just tentative changes!"

Dont lie. Riot is going to nerf Elise either way because she is still a good pick for competetive play and they cant get away with not nerfing Elise if they nerf Lee Sin and Evelyn. Now, that nerfs are inevitable, lets just focus on how we could avoid making a champion unviable because of the competetive performance.

Riot's goal has always been tuning her early game down and giving her a better transition into the late game. While the first part is going quite well, the second part, not so much. Compensation buffs gave her a slightly longer stun on her human form e and reduced spider form e's cd.

It's not enough.

Now brace yourself, time for my suggestion. Have Elise's spiderlings give her armor and mr bonuses when they are up, so she can have a lesser equivalent of Shyvana's passive in spider form. Let's say, 5 armor and mr per spiderling would be considerable.

Yes, that would force her to use her spider form more often.

Yes, late game her defenses would be quite fearsome if she was to have all spiderlings up.

BUT, there is a really clear counterplay to this, which is to kill spiderlings. This way, her passive has some more use and meaning in teamfights. Reflects her character perfectly too. Spider Queen has to rely on spiderlings, who would have thought?