User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Elise, the Spider Queen/@comment-25115166-20141221143546/@comment-1330314-20141221203116

I don't think an AoE snare is the kind of power you'd want to have on Elise. It also makes the root dependent mostly on the opponent's reaction time, rather than proper interaction with Elise herself (which Q does).

Considering the slow on only applies on abilities that deal damage, it would only apply on Elise's Q while in Human Form, and so would not greatly affect her combo.

I would also put Elise's supposedly overly high ratios into question: her current Volatile Spiderling deals up to 275 magic damage already, and isn't dependent upon a difficult combo to achieve, for example. Current Elise can have up to five Spiderlings at all times, whereas mine can only have three on variable availability, and has a 140% attack speed boost. My Elise definitely scales better, and has more burst, but even when taking into account the maximum possible burst my Elise can achieve, it's still not "too high" by any stretch.