i love elise but when i play regular burst elise i find it very hard to interact with the enemy team, especially if our draft is bad and during the mid to late game where everyone one shots you.

this build is my usual go-to playstyle for elise nowadays in this bruiser meta, and i feel it works super well. great into duelists, but you can run this anytime really.

your burst is slower than with the usual build, of course, but the health and healing make up for it i believe. you just have so much more presence, and youre still pesky old elise with stuns and rappel. your damage shouldnt be lacking in any way either, your W and your spiderlings are insane. only problem really is kiting, or enemies who are hard to stick onto, and thats why i love going for speed runes and stats.

you will really run out of mana, especially if you dont take manaflow band. save your spells for dives, as youre great at doing that. youre also just an insane duelist and have crazy damage, especially with PTA.

play around your cocoon and rappel to dodge enemy abilities. for example, the sett matchup is almost entirely free because of those abilities. point and click CC sucks though, as you need to hard predict it

if going top, i recommend specializing in tankier items so you can be the frontline.