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.
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Elise versus Ekko counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ekko’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ekko..
Elise normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ekko. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Ekko, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a poor counter to Ekko.
While Elise does have a lower winrate compared to Ekko, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Elise into Ekkoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ekko. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Elise is a bad counter to Ekko. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Ekko.
To truly master Elise in order to counter Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Ekko. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Elise versus Ekko build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Ekko than with many other common builds. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 46.1% when countering Ekko with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Ekko as Elise, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Elise vs Ekko fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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