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.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Elise Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Elise perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Elise plays on the same team as Xerath, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Xerath helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Elise is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Additionally, when Elise plays with Xerath on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Elise in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Elise that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical ally for Elise. By locking into the same team as Elise, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Elise and Xerath that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Elise. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Xerath teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Elise players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Elise and Xerath together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise to synergize with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Elise and Xerath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Elise players should use 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 sets that we analyzed for Elise and Xerath pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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