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 provided here feature some influential Zeri vs. Elise matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Elise..
Zeri typically has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually wins when playing against Elise, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a great counter to Elise.
While Zeri does have a much higher win rate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Zeri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Zeri into Elise.
Moreover, Zeri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Elise matchups, Zeri is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zeri is a great counter for Elise. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Elise.
If you would like to truly master Zeri to counter Elise during both the lane 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 displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri usually racks up much more CS as Elise. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zeri versus Elise build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better versus Elise than with most other common builds. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 54.2% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Elise as Zeri, Zeri players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Zeri vs Elise counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
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