Talk:Elise/@comment-5599586-20121019152351/@comment-86.17.192.155-20121019153650

Irelia is supposed to be a top laner who is able to stay in lane for a long amount of time.

Elise is an AP carry who goes in the shortest lane. She's not supposed to be durable.

Also, Elise's design is CLEARLY supposed to encourage using her human abilities while the enemy has high health, and then using her spider abilities to finish them off. Notice how her human abilities are similar to harassment spells used by other champions like Maokai and Brand? And her spider abilities are similar to those used for assassination and escape, like Fizz?