Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several critical Darius versus Elise counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Darius normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Elise, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Darius makes an ok counter for Elise.
While Darius does have a lower winrate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Darius also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Darius into Elise.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Darius is a somewhat poor counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Darius against Elise.
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius to counter Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius often accumulates much more CS relative to Elise. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Darius versus Elise build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Darius incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Elise than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Elise with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Elise as Darius, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Darius vs Elise counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Elise as Darius are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.