@Meddler: What are the plans for Elise?

You guys have tried some softball buffs for Elise recently, and neither of them have done anything to improve her situation. The slight movespeed buff is nifty for her ganks, but it doesn't help the fact that, whether building damage or building tanky, she's a glorified stunbot when teamfights begin. Her latest buffs only caused minor and brief increase in her play rate, and her win rate is just as abysmal as it was last week.

Could you please let us in on some of your ideas or considerations, if any have been tossed around?

What she needs is some either some actual scaling so she can do damage without a pure AP build, or some kind of defense steroid in spider form so she won't get blown up if she's not building heavily on durability.

Also, her mp costs in human form are abysmal. Just wanted to add that in.

Elise has players who actually want to use her in serious games, but she's just not viable. Why are you guys being so terrified of buffing her when she "toes the line of viability," which means something akin to "she's almost *not *terrible!" Where was this restraint with some of the changes made to the tank junglers lately?