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.
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical Elise vs. Jax matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jax..
Elise typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jax. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Jax, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a bad counter to Jax.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Jax, when facing one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Elise into Jaxas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Jax. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Jax.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Jax during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise usually picks up a lot less CS as Jax. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need 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 most important items to have in your Elise versus Jax build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Jax than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 48.6% battling Jax with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Jax as Elise, Elise players should take 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 rune builds we have analyed for Elise vs Jax LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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