Talk:Elise/@comment-25917132-20150818042623/@comment-15667791-20150829115227

"Objective first, kill later. If that's not how people are doing it, then people are doing it wrong."

That's about as wrong as it gets. There are moments you should finish the objective before the kill, but the majority of the time, the kill(s) should come first. The champion you kill is the *only* object that will effectively chase you, should the situation go south.

For example, you have a tower and 1 defender. You have a decent shot at killing said defender. What do you attack? Well, if you attack the champion, you can clear them from being a problem, leave tower range, and then pelt the tower down at your leisure. Enemy won't be clearing under tower, either, so you're free. And if another enemy champ shows up, you have a single champ chasing you.

But if you attack the tower? Well, first off, the enemy unit is pummelling the crap out of you as you pelt his tower. So, you're already starting to die, if not dead. Then you hypothetically get the tower somehow, after your enemy's relentless assault and the short windows thanks to their faster waveclear. It falls, you're mostly dead, the enemy is still there to possibly finish you, and even if not, his friend decides to join, and the two of them will chase you down and make you wish you weren't so stupid, though you snap back a quick, "worth", though you could have ended up alive, with a kill, and possibly some momentum heading in your direction instead of simply flipping their switch on.

As far as other objectives, same rule applies. If you keep attacking dragon while 2 of your allies fall to enemy champions, you just fell down to a 3v5 where you sustained all dragon's damage, you helped damage the dragon for/against the enemy, which is only determined based on whoever gets that last hit, and none of the others you saved for the dragon, and your team has generally zero skills available off of cooldown thanks to the haste on killing dragon.

And if you kill champions instead? Well, not only do you tend to whittle champions down easily because they are forced to all-in your team while you are gathered, but you can let them whittle dragon as you pick them apart, if they decide to do so, and simply time your smite as best you can, just like they'll be doing. No matter who is there first, the champions who focus the objective are not likely to make a positive impact for the fight. Simple as that.