Elise can/can't carry?

yocker L9·2/14/2015, 11:12:30 PM·1 votes·1,110 views

Maybe it's just me, but I feel as though I know the mechanics of Elise quite well and I do manage to play her quite well. The problem is when it comes to teamfights. Maybe I'm not focusing the proper person? Maybe I'm just not building well? I'm not sure. I always do well though. I let my teammates get kills and give myself a few where needed. I just feel like I can't carry as her. What's your opinions on Elise carrying now?

3 Comments

Troy2426212/14/2015, 11:22:54 PM2 votes

Elise was overnerfed to be brutally honest, and even before her nerfs she was never a good teamfighter. Elise carrying consists of snowballing lanes out of control, getting a lead and dominating dragon/taking towers.

Fock Raet Gumis2/14/2015, 11:34:45 PM2 votes

You can play Elise however you want to, breh.

**Carry **= item 3020 item 3089 item 3135 item 3100 item 3152 item 3165 item 2139 Note: You have to have some extremely safe positioning and skills, and/or a skilled enough team that can properly peel enemies off of you.

AP-Based-Damage Off-Tank = item 3001 item 3174 item 3027 item 3116 item 3151 item 3157 Note: pretty standard ap-tank build. Build resistances as needed. Feel free to explore other items, and definitely don't limit yourself to only the sequence of items I've suggested within this post.

Item-Based-Damage Off-Tank = item 3068 item 3075 item 3091 Note: You rely on being within melee range more often than not, and adc needs to attack you in order for you to benefit from Thornmail. Really tanky against AD, but you can still easily be 100-0'd if you're not playing safe enough. Elise's kit offers great ap scaling, and thus this particular subset of items isn't optimal on her. It still works, but AP items are superior in terms of damage.

Full Tank = item 3083 item 3110 item 3143 item 3102 item 3065 Note: Elise doesn't scale with armor, hp, or mr. So you'll be extremely weak in terms of damage, especially if the enemy team builds even a morsel of defense against you. Build these if you have too many glass-cannon carries in solo queue, and/or want to trollololol around.

Tank Boots = item 3111 item 3047

Here're some cheese builds:

Tank Shredder/Carry Crippler item 3020 item 3078 item 3153 item 3151 item 3026 item 3022

and

Surprise Muthafuka! [snowballing required] item 3020 item 3041 item 3083 item 3026

You're welcome.

Saevum2/15/2015, 10:10:11 AM1 votes

As someone already said, she's nerfed. However, you can understand that to some degree.

Her utility, sustain, and objective control still hit hard when you have a real team. She's not balanced in order to carry other 4 members (if that's what you're asking).

Further explanation of the why's:

Spiders may be used to tank for you (jungle), bomb spider may be used to check bushes, max level E human form gives you Morgana's-Q-like root-stun, Spider form gives you some bonus resists, and movement speed. Her prowess early game allows her to gank pre-6. She does not rely so heavily on Blue buff, therefore, you can give blue buff to your mid laner if he/she is mana reliant. She does not rely on Red buff so much, you already have a root-stun skillshot. You can either start Red or blue.

You can build off tank, you can build more AP-Assassin-like. Besides your flash, you can also E away. She has a good overall. Enemy picks may not be able to hard counter you.