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.
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Elise against Brand matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Brand..
Elise typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Brandas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Brand.
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise often accumulates less CS as Brand. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Elise versus Brand build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Brand than with most other typical builds. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Brand with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Brand as Elise, Elise players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Elise vs Brand battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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