User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/Elise the Spider Queen/@comment-25003900-20150216173425/@comment-3974211-20150216191124

It functions as a skill shot (expands in width while in flight) and then becomes a wall - it can hit people as a skill shot and people can walk through it as a wall. This is the same as Wind Wall actually - it can block things while forming. It's intended for both defensive and offensive uses, such as a walling off sections of your jungle, the entrance to your lane or simply throwing it as an engage skill.

Melee Elise's Neurotoxin's damage drops to 0 against low health targets - it scales with current health. An AP scaling might work, but I would probably have to add a base - since champions don't have a reasonable amount of base AP (whereas they do have base AD).

And yeah, the only issue with the Mage kit is the somewhat loss of the assassination - but she's got a hell of a lot of "king of the hill" going for her. Once she has multiple nests up she's doing a lot of bonus damage on-hit.