Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Elise against Amumu counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Amumu. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Elise typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when playing against Amumu, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a bad counter to Amumu.
While Elise does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Elise into Amumuas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Elise is a terribly counter to Amumu. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Elise against Amumu.
To truly master Elise to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Elise versus Amumu build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Amumu than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 47.6% battling Amumu with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Amumu as Elise, Elise players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Elise vs Amumu counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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