Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Fiddlesticks against Elise matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Elise’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Elise..
Fiddlesticks often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Elise. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Fiddlesticks makes a good counter for Elise.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher winrate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Fiddlesticks into Eliseas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Elise matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiddlesticks against Elise.
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Elise. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Fiddlesticks versus Elise build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Elise than with many other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Elise as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Fiddlesticks vs Elise matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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