Give Elise the new Jayce treatment?
As someone who played Elise a lot when she was better (season 3, first part of season 4ish~), I miss her being a strong presence in the jungle. I know the point was to nerf champions like her that were so good at snowballing lanes and themselves early on in the game, but with the new jungle champions like Lee Sin and Nidalee (welcome to the jungle, girl) were still popular pics for that reason. When the jungle items were changed (pre-cinderhulk), it was a good thing for Elise - she didn't need to take Mercury Treads to get the tenacity she wanted. Cinderhulk changed that, but gave her, and the other tanks, some added health to get more tanky into late game.
Now, with all the tanks steaming through the jungle, and being able to gank early, while scaling SO hard into late game, there's really not a place for Elise. She is still pretty scary early on, but her scaling is so terrible that late game you're either a) too squishy to remain in a fight after assassinating someone with your AP, which doesn't scale well. Or you're b) a tanky single target stun bot, which is outclassed by better stuns from tanks like Sejuani.
My suggestion is to give Elise a tad more late game scaling on her Q or her W or both, by taking points away from her ult, and moving them over to those abilities. Like Jayce, her ult only adds a small scaling of magic damage on hit, and gives her more spiderlings - different than Nidalee's ult, which gives her very apparent power spikes on her cougar form damage. So her spiderlings and attack's magic damage in spider form still scale through the game, but she still gets a bit more presence later on as a more tanky/ap bruiser champion.
Maybe it's wishful thinking because I want my queen back in a good spot on the rift, but I'm not seeing it as anything game breaking. Comments are appreciated :)
Her current passive:
"HUMAN FORM : When Elise's spells hit an enemy, she readies a Spider Swarm Spiderling.
SPIDER FORM : Elise summons Spider Swarm Spiderlings to attack nearby foes. The maximum number of Spiderlings increases with the level of Spider Form Spider Form." This could be a passive of her ult.
is already geared more towards the late game than elise, so I wouldn't compare the two based off of that alone. If we buffed her the same way as him she might be considered strong in every phase of the game, so instead she should get a stronger mid game so she has a larger opportunity to carry etc.