Is Riot no longer confused about what kind of Champion Elise is supposed to be?

darkdill·Jan 12, 2017·1 votes·562 views

Remember when Riot was going "Is she a mage? Is she a tank? Is she an assassin? She can't be all three!"

But as of late, she's basically never even spoken of.

8 Comments

AbyssphereJan 12, 20173 votes

It's because "Is she a tank?" got taken out of the topic. When Elise was typically building full tank despite possessing half a ranged kit and a very aggressive melee kit, she was completely nonsensical and honestly quite unhealthy. Riot managing to make offensive builds significantly more attractive on her has made her strengths and weaknesses quite a bit more focused ("She's squishy" is actually a valid criticism now, yay!) and made her feel a lot more sensible in terms of what she's trying to be. She has a kit that says she wants to do lots of damage, and a build that allows her to fulfil that dream now.

All in all she's been in a really good state in terms of kit health for a long time now, far better than her earlier seasons. Balance-wise she's IMO on the weak end at the moment, however.

Variks the LoyalJan 12, 20171 votes

They categorized her as a Diver.

darkdillJan 12, 20171 votes

She's awfully squishy for a diver.

Tundra HunterJan 12, 20171 votes

She has a tool (Rappel) to avoid turret agro, so she can dive efficiently early game (stun, burst, rappel). She is one of these champion that is hard to balance for Riot, because she is very strong at high elo, and weak at low elo. This is because at high elo, she put a lot of pressure early and can make pro-team snowball. This is not as efficient at low elo, where some early kills don't mean much as it is much more messy.

You can look here at the winrate for different elo: http://oce.op.gg/statistics/champion/

Mommy EliseJan 24, 20171 votes

Her winrate in Plat+ right now, at least in NA is around 46%.

Tundra HunterJan 12, 20171 votes

I think usually the most efficient way is to build her as a fighter (1 or 2 damage items, then tank items), in order to gank early and then be usefull in late-game teamfights.

But I like to think that there isn't ONE right build, but you have to adapt it to your playstyle (personal) and to the matchup (your team composition and strategy and ennemy team composition).

Elise seems in a good spot to me at the moment, what would you like to see? -I personally don't play her yet.

darkdillJan 12, 20171 votes

For one, I don't like how cruddy her base HP is. Level 16 with her and with a Protobelt, she only has around 2000 HP. That's pretty low, all things considered.