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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stats shown here highlight several critical Elise versus Lissandra counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lissandra..
Elise often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Lissandra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Lissandra, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Elise does have a lower winrate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Lissandraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra 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 teamfights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Lissandra. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Lissandra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Lissandra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Elise versus Lissandra build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Lissandra than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing against Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Lissandra as Elise, Elise players should use 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 rune combinations players chose for Elise vs Lissandra counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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