User blog comment:Darkhero562/The many roles of a spider/@comment-70.29.47.93-20130305191839

People won't deviate out of the meta because of either negative experience or worry of losing. Most players have had someone in a game of theirs try out something new only to have it fail spectacularly because it was the persons first time trying it, followed quickly by a loss. On the other side people worry that if they deviate from the meta at all they will lose because they won't have the best team they could. People wait for the pros to try out something new, see it work and then copy it, it's "safer" that way to them. Unfortunately it's really hard to try something new because a lot of players are afraid of being banned for doing poorly or if they do tell the team what they intend to do they will be chewed out in champ select and usually not try what they had in mind.

If you like playing Elise as all roles then go for it, however I recommend having the decency to tell your team before you pick her what your intentions are. As far as playing her as AD goes, it's kinda funny, but outside of starting a fight in spider form, activating Frenzy and switching to human form to get 140% attack speed for 3 seconds, there are just better characters to ADC with. However, if you wanted to get cheeky and abuse how strong of a laner Elise is you can ask an ally to take Soraka with you bottom to constantly feed you mana as you Q the opposing bot lane into oblivion. Then when they're low you go spider form, get Soraka to heal you and Rappel-combo the squishy for an easy kill. Rinse, repeat.