Talk:Elise/@comment-5224716-20150124205925/@comment-5077844-20150125230522

She can be played as an assasin any day. Thing is, tank is just way more ffective right now.

Look at her suggested items, even Riot wants us ot build AP, but it just isn't as good.

Elise has practically zero lategame and her main damage tool (Q) doesn't scale well with AP.

regular 50~100 AP= ~10% HP damage; 600 AP = 26% HP damage..and that's based on current/missing HP, so you will only get the full damage once, really. Technically that combo would take out most squishies, if you land your W (which would have around 650 damage, before MR) inbetween. Problem is...to do that you need land your stun and not ahve your W blocke by anyone else. In a teamfight that is üretty much useless because, squishy as you are, you will die before you can even switch to spiderform.

She works as a 1v1 assassin if she has the element of surprise...nothing more...and I don't even think tweaks can help her....I mean, unless they buff her scalings (and give her actual Ap base scalings on Q) so hard that you practically HAVE to run AP because it's so overpowered i don't see her working as AP.

If you want a damage build, just go full penetration on her. Scorcs-liandry's-Void Staff-Abyssal- Frozen Heart/Iceborn-Warmogs...or anything else you might like. Just stack penetration so your damage won't fall off and attempt splitpushing...

Either way, if there was any way to play an effective damage-focussed Elise...the pros would have done it. Fact is, right now tank is all she can do, and unless they just throw a rework out (which is stupid, considering she is still an LCS pick and does waht she does quite well) it will remain that way