User blog comment:Pianodud777/A Champion that can do it all?/@comment-4068612-20130708231506

Elise can do 4 of the 5 as well. When she was extremely popular pre-nerfs, she was even capable of being a tank nuke assassin because of how consistent her %damage spells were even if you didn't build any damage. All you needed was some spell pen.

She's a viable top laner, jungler, and is pretty good at support. Korean players actually used to support Elise a lot not too long ago, though she was nerfed shortly after which decreased the popularity of it. Mid isn't considered viable at the highest level of play, but she still does extremely well in that role, imo, and building straight damage on her as a mid laner can be pretty terrifying. She's just not a top pick in the mid lane.

She would even do okay as an ADC with 550 range, though I wouldn't play her there. It's just possible, I guess.