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What Does Playing Elise Mean?
Why not straight AP Assassin Elise?
AP Assassin Elise does *a lot* of damage. You'll hear people discouraging AP on Elise. That's foolish - the proper amount of AP, supplemented my Magic Penetration is very effective. The main killer here is the fact that a high amount of Elise' damage output comes from being in close - her



Why not AD Elise?
Starting with some AD on Elise is not at all bad. In fact, it's not a dumb idea to take both the AD and AP masteries in the Offensive Tree. Her base attack damage is already pretty high, and adding just a little makes her extremely powerful in the early game. Most laners will not expect the kind of damage you can dish out. However, you should switch to building AP as soon as you can as there is no scaling potential with AD.
What's left?
So what's left is what I call "Bruiser" Elise. This is where you build a bit of AP, mostly magic penetration, and core tank items. This way you stay alive and benefit your team by absorbing some damage while your damage remains somewhat of a threat as well. This approach is also great because it allows you to carry in the early game with your damage while scaling OK into the late game.

- You'll want armor, for the jungle and for lane ganks.
- I prefer scaling MR runes as they really help you absorb more damage in the late game. Situationally, you may want flat MR runes, but AP champions tend to be weaker in the early game anyway, so you shouldn't have much trouble when you gank. It's not like you're playing bot where you have to worry about every damage point in a trade.
- I prefer having a couple Move Speed quints. I find Elise just gets a lot more hits of her





So why


Once you have





One note about





For your last item, it's a bit of a tossup. What do you need? If you need more damage, or more tank, or whatever - buy for that. Some games the enemy team just has a death wish for me. Those games I pick up a





Ganking
A lot of people like to come right up the lane and close with


When you get in the lane, I walk right up to auto attack range in human form. This does several things: 1) it saves you the use of





Tower Diving
Elise accels at tower diving, and this is one of the reasons to build early armor on her. What you wanna do is wait for the minion wave to come to the tower and then come around from behind the tower to close on them with your teammate. If you're lucky they will be forced into your


An alternate approach to tower diving is available when the laner is hanging at the far edge of their tower. You can





Elise Combo
I can't stress how important this is. W first. Repeat after me. W first, then Q. W first, then Q. W -> Q. Not Q -> W. W -> Q. It was so hard for me to deal significant damage when I first started playing Elise. My conclusion was that she sucked. What I didn't realize is that by the time my


This trick works in both Human Form, and in Spider Form. You want to activate your Human Form W before your Q so the spider has time to close on them while

(Human Form) E -> Move up (to get in Q range) -> Physical Attack -> W -> Q -> R -> W -> Q. You'll want to right click - move ahead after you land your first auto attack to maximize the # of hits you can get in and keep your spiderlings ahead of them (typical behavior when chasing with any melee champion).
If you pull this off properly you will be on top of them with your


Learning this combo with Elise will take your game from mediocre level to godlike.
Finishing
Sometimes your full rotation won't be able to finish a target - or maybe you get too close to tower range. Assuming you have the right cooldown reduction and the fight has taken long enough, you should be able to swap back to your Human Form and finish them with either Q, W, or an autoattack (or all of the above). Some of the most hilarious Elise kills are when you send a


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