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.
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
The stats provided here underscore some significant Elise vs. Sivir counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sivir..
Elise often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Sivir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when playing against Sivir, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a poor counter to Sivir.
While Elise does have a lower win rate than Sivir, when facing one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Siviras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Sivir matchups, Sivir 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 late stage team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter to Sivir. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Elise against Sivir.
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Sivir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise often gets a lot less CS relative to Sivir. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Elise versus Sivir build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Sivir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Sivir with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sivir as Elise, Elise players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Elise vs Sivir fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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