User blog comment:Care Level/An Elise Though/@comment-15244341-20130923093519

The thing with Elise is that her kit gave her literally everything she wanted. Human form W was a poke and a darn good one against sieges, while spider form was an steroid for both herself and her pets which gave great DPS and also sustain. Human form Q was a great poke in top lane against all the tanky melee picks without much anwer to it, while spider form is a great finisher. Human form E is likely one of the best things on her kit since it synergyzes greatly with her bursty nature by being a relatively fast long range stun, while spider form's E was simply a Zhonya + gap closer which also revealed enemies in range. Except E, all her skills are on fair cooldowns with a bit of CDR, but they have mediocre/bad AP scalings.

I can understand the point of nerfing her tankyness (spider form resistances), her poke (human form W) or her mobility (spider form E). What I don't really understand is nerfing all of them. If you are familiar, it happened the same to Sejuani post rework. When Riot saw her damage was really high for a tank with some items, they nerfed her. But the didn't only nerf her damage. They nerfed her W scalings (from 16% bonus health to 10%, which is a bit harsher than it should), they nerfed the duration on the stun from her ultimate a little (.25 seconds or something like that, so... ok?) and they nerfed her E's duration in .5 seconds.

See, I am hesitant to say this since I do like the company, but I think Riot have a bit of a "fast nerf" mentality. Instead of doing several incremental number adjustments to see which level of nerf suits the place they want the champion to be at, they tend to nerf in a bulk everything they believe problematic on said champion abruptly. This means champions that are actually too strong get reduced not to "just strong" but more to "okay". Elise had this happen to her. She can actually perform the same roles she did. It's just that she is a bit worse at them now.

My problem is more with the bulk of them. All of the transforming (as in form change, not Jayce) champions have had some nerfs on their transformed form. I think there is little to no hope of changes in this. I do believe things like spider's tankyness or stuff like that should be reversed, honestly.