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.
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
The Elise Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Elise sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Elise perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Elise is paired with Varus, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Varus does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Elise is played with Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Elise plays with Varus on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Elise during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Elise that will always be her top teammate. Yet, Varus is a decent ally for Elise. By being on the same side as Elise, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Elise and Varus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Elise. That means Elise players don't need to be very careful when lining up Varus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Elise and Varus together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to synergize with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Elise and Varus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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