Talk:Elise/@comment-20434720-20140613082902

Why don't people build Elise like they build jax? She deals slightly less on-hit magic damage with her ult compared to Jax's, but her 140% instant AS buff is better in several situations (and with max CDR it's up 41% of the time anyway) than Jax's stacking 84% AS buff.

Her Q is an excellent gap-closer, her human form adds utiliy/some waveclear/decent base damage. She has the potential to do a LOT of hybrid damage, much like Jax. So why don't people just grab a BORK and trifroce and start melting faces?

I think the main problem lies in that Elise can't do any of that while ranged, and doesn't really get any of the tankiness benefits other melee champions have when melee. She doesn't have jax's dodge (elise's E is in some situations better, some situations worse), but perhaps most importantly she doesn't have Jax's ult active that gives some serious resists that let him build pure offense for the first half of the game.

Perhaps a build would need to go for an early triforce and then delay bork until after some durability has been acquired?