Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Fiora vs. Elise counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Elise..
Fiora usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Fiora usually wins when playing against Elise, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Fiora makes a good counter for Elise.
While Fiora does have a higher winrate compared to Elise, when on opposite teams, Fiora also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiora into Elise.
Furthermore, Fiora also has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Elise matchups, Fiora is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Fiora is a decent counter for Elise. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiora against Elise.
To truly master Fiora in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora often picks up much more CS compared to Elise. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Fiora versus Elise build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Fiora combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Elise than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiora had an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Elise as Fiora, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Fiora vs Elise counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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