Elise vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Elise
based on 1,027 Elise vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Elise vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Elise in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Elise vs. Zed counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed..
Elise normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zed. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Zed
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Who is Better, Elise or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Zed, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Elise makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Elise also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Elise into Zedas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter to Zed. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Zed during both the lane 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 shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise usually gets a lot less CS relative to Zed. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Elise versus Zed build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Zed as Elise, you should use 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 runes players used for Elise vs Zed face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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