Elise jungling pre-season 5

imamonster13·Nov 22, 2014·1 votes·8,492 views

It may just be me, but Elise seems completely nonviable to jungle any more if you're going for a full ap build. She just takes so much damage, even from the small camps to be able to gank after getting a buff.

8 Comments

EndlessSorcererNov 23, 20143 votes

You don't use a full AP build on Elise. She's pretty much always been better with a MPen Tank build. Try taking item 3020 item 3725 item 3136 item 3143 item 3065 item 3110 , then either get Liandry's Torment or sell Haunting Guise for Void Staff.

ZeroAnarchyNov 23, 20142 votes

Elise is still good in the jungle, learn how to make your spiderlings to tank for you not yourself

AozoraNov 23, 20142 votes

Elise is great in the new jungle. She has amazing sustain and if you know how to play her she's great at ganking and picking off low health units. You never want to build full AP on her since she doesn't scale all that well with it.

How I like to build Elise is I go item 3725 item 3020 item 3136 item 3143 / item 3068 (only early-mid game) item 3190 .

I usually build guise into Liandry's or sell it for Void Staff. If I build Sunfire, it's usually after sorc boots and guise. After mid-game, I like to transition into Randuin's or Frozen Heart because Sunfire loses a lot of it's strength late game and is at it's best early on. Basically in teamfights with Elise I try to land my stun on a squishy unit and poke with her Q and W. Once I find a low health unit I can kill quickly, I switch to spider form use my E onto them and W + Q them. I also use Spider form to move around quickly.

For farming, you need to juggle jungle aggro between you and your spiderlings. This along with your spider W gives you amazing sustain in the jungle. With a few incoming buffs, Elise will finally become a top tier jungler in season 5! :) Elise

imamonster13Nov 23, 20142 votes

Hey, thanks a lot man! DrMundo

AozoraNov 23, 20141 votes

Happy to help! Elise is my favorite jungler (perhaps even champion in general) and I'm glad more people are looking to use her. Hopefully she'll get some compensation for being over-nerfed in s4.

Another tip, before teamfights start you'll only really wanna poke hard with human Q so you keep some of your mana. I usually tend to use the volatile spiderling to clear waves, scout unwarded brushes, or when I land my stun on someone. I also use it as some disengage poke. :P

One trick for her volatile spiderling is dropping it before you go into spider form. Follow up with your spider form Q because all her spiderlings (including that explosive little critter) will jump towards her target even if they aren't necessarily close to whoever she hit with Venomous bite.

imamonster13Nov 23, 20142 votes

Yeah, I've gotten decent with her over the past couple of days. Usually i can hit my stun and q, then switch to spider form and capitalize on that with her w and q in spider form. Usually works out pretty well, as long as i can do it safely.

leg fetishNov 23, 20141 votes

Many pros think differently than you. she has good burst and clear, she has the mobility and she has the good gank potential. Typically you wouldn't go full ap, because your midlaner will usually just do that for you. If you have an ad based team, It's alright I guess to go ap.

imamonster13Nov 23, 20141 votes

Well, I guess it's just where i'm new to her. I just bought her last night and i've played maybe 5-10 games with her. But I still think I like laning with her top or mid instead of going jg. Just always seems to work out better for me.