Rammus vs Elise Counter Pick

Elise is rated 9 out of 10 for difficulty, and most of that is form management: Spider Form trades her 550 attack range for move speed, a new ability set and a spiderling swarm. Those spiderlings are a large part of why this matchup reads 59.3% for Rammus over 189 games on patch 16.13.1. Defensive Ball Curl returns damage to everything that attacks him, a pet swarm attacks on repeat, and Skittering Frenzy raises the attack speed of Elise and her spiderlings alike, which only makes the returned damage worse.

Her escape has a window rather than a guarantee. Rappel lifts her into the air for a short time, and Frenzying Taunt forces her into a reckless assault on Rammus while she is still on the ground. Powerball covers the distance that makes it possible, and Soaring Slam adds a knock-up when it follows Powerball. Both champions are classified as mixed damage, so single-resistance stacking is inefficient in either direction. She holds 550 range to 125 and 2473 health at 18 to 2345, but only 106.5 armor against his 111.5, and moves at 330 to his 335. Neurotoxin scaling with a target’s remaining health keeps her human-form poke relevant, and both champions run on Mana, so neither can trade indefinitely. More on Elise.