Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Elise vs. Anivia counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Anivia..
Elise typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Anivia, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a poor counter to Anivia.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Anivia, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Aniviaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Anivia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Anivia.
To truly master Elise in order to counter Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Anivia. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Elise versus Anivia build consist of Night Harvester, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Elise combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Anivia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 48.5% battling Anivia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Anivia as Elise, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Elise vs Anivia battles, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Anivia as Elise are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.