When is Elise supposed to feel powerful?

Big Lincoln·Jan 10, 2015·1 votes·296 views

Title.

I bought her yesterday, loved her kit, she's a ton of fun and Blood Moon is amazing too. But, through all my games, there's this really weird feeling I have where I don't feel that impactful, even when I land most of my cocoons or just do a lot of damage in teamfights.

Even wih the % damage, I don't feel like I'm hurting anyone unless I've got a lot of AP (or in my games, magic pen). Building tank makes me feel even worse because I'm giving up most of my damage source, and I pretty much have to build tanky if anyone on my team ends up behind bot or mid.

So, where am I supposed to feel like this really strong assassin who can make good picks with her cocoon? If I build for damage I'm usually jump in and die, and if I'm building tanky then I jump in and die a little later.

Is it my build order? I get my runes are a little iffy right now but they can't be the deal breaker, can they?

3 Comments

BakedLotionJan 10, 20152 votes

shes super weak and overnerfed right now, she's useless

DoraTheBrownJan 10, 20151 votes

when? last year or 2 years ago

Hinagiku33Jan 10, 20151 votes

Well for starters Elise was never a super-strong assassin that makes picks with cocoon. She's primarily a jungle tank that uses cocoon/repel to set up ganks and has some reliable damage with her Q - this is basically the only way she was played competitively (and therefore got copied a lot) because squishy AP Elise is way too easy to kill and she's never really been that great 1 v 1 unless she gets really fed.

But yeah, she got nerfed hard and now she's a pretty lackluster pick so that's probably what you're feeling.