Elise·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Elise Top build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Manaflow Band and Scorch in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Dusk and Dawn as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Nashor's Tooth. For your last 3 items, you should build Shadowflame, Zhonya's Hourglass and finish with Rabadon's Deathcap. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 48.2% winrate over 284 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Press the Attack as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Triple Tonic with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Hextech Rocketbelt as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Cosmic Drive as a third item. You want to finish the build with Bandlepipes, Cryptbloom and Zhonya's Hourglass. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 43.1% win rate across 130 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Elise Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Coup de Grace as your primary rune tree, and Transcendence with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Lich Bane as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Rabadon's Deathcap as third item. The last 3 options are Hextech Gunblade, Void Staff and Nashor's Tooth. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 58.0% win rate over 50 matches played.

Situational Elise Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Elise build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.