Elise Guide
Elise is an early game burst ganker. This is the Dark Harvest build into Lich Bane, Sorcerer's Shoes and Shadowflame, the path the best Elise players run. Every gank works the same way: land human E, spend your whole rotation on the stunned target, and they are dead before the stun ends. You carry more spells into a fight than almost any jungler, so you are strongest in the first fifteen minutes and weaker late. Take your lead early, stack Dark Seal on every takedown, and turn every kill into a tower or a dragon before the enemy carries catch up.
Runes
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Check which lanes are volatile in champion select. Those are your gank targets all game.
- •When ganking from behind, read your laner's movement to predict where the target will run before throwing E.
Skill Priority
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Clear top to bot, and take the scuttle on the way out when it is free.
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 3:10, and by 3:08 once you are Master.
- •Level 3 is when your ganks start killing. Pick the lane whose target has no escape and a wave pushed past the middle, and walk in from behind so you have the flank.
- •Stack Dark Seal on every takedown; each one makes the next gank hit harder.
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Core Build Examples
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Level 9 is your spike, with both Qs at max at once. Force fights and tower dives from here.
- •Even as a ganker, aim for at least seven CS a minute. Gold and experience are what make your ganks kill.
- •Base the moment your next item is affordable; unspent gold does nothing for your next gank.
- •Turn every kill into a tower or a dragon. Your damage falls off later, so the lead has to become something that stays.
Situational
Late Game
4+ items
- •You no longer delete a full health carry on your own. Wait in fog for a pick, then leave with spider E.
- •Once your damage items are done, the next buy keeps you alive: Zhonya's by default, Banshee's Veil into heavy AP.
- •Play around your strongest teammate and get the pick for them instead of forcing solo plays.
- •Do not start the fight before your team is in position.
Elise Guide
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Runes
Skill Priority
Core Build Examples
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Situational
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Check which lanes are volatile in champion select. Those are your gank targets all game.
- •When ganking from behind, read your laner's movement to predict where the target will run before throwing E.
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Clear top to bot, and take the scuttle on the way out when it is free.
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 3:10, and by 3:08 once you are Master.
- •Level 3 is when your ganks start killing. Pick the lane whose target has no escape and a wave pushed past the middle, and walk in from behind so you have the flank.
- •Stack Dark Seal on every takedown; each one makes the next gank hit harder.
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Level 9 is your spike, with both Qs at max at once. Force fights and tower dives from here.
- •Even as a ganker, aim for at least seven CS a minute. Gold and experience are what make your ganks kill.
- •Base the moment your next item is affordable; unspent gold does nothing for your next gank.
- •Turn every kill into a tower or a dragon. Your damage falls off later, so the lead has to become something that stays.
Late Game
4+ items
- •You no longer delete a full health carry on your own. Wait in fog for a pick, then leave with spider E.
- •Once your damage items are done, the next buy keeps you alive: Zhonya's by default, Banshee's Veil into heavy AP.
- •Play around your strongest teammate and get the pick for them instead of forcing solo plays.
- •Do not start the fight before your team is in position.