Elise vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Elise
based on 627 Elise vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Soraka
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
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.
Advice to Win Against Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Elise vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Elise in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Elise vs. Soraka matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Elise normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Soraka
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Who is Better, Elise or Soraka?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Soraka, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a poor counter for Soraka.
While Elise does have a lower win rate than Soraka, when facing one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Elise into Sorakaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Elise is a terribly counter to Soraka. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Soraka. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Elise versus Soraka build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Soraka than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Soraka with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Soraka as Elise, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Elise vs Soraka battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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