What is the best build for Elise?

We do not publish a best build for Elise, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Elise jungle build on patch 16.14 is Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Stormsurge, in 66 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Elise?

The most recorded Elise jungle rune page on patch 16.14 takes Dark Harvest out of Domination, with Cheap Shot, Sixth Sense and Relentless Hunter beside it and Coup de Grace and Triumph out of Precision. Players who ran it won 53.2% of 459 games, range 48.6% to 57.7%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Elise build, patch 16.14

Q: What skill order should I use on Elise?

Recorded Elise jungle players max Q, then W, then E. 235 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 100% of 231 Q-first games and 75% of 4 W-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

1,472 games of Elise recorded on patch 16.14, across jungle, support, top, mid and bot.

Win rate

52.9% of jungle games this patch

Pick rate

1.1% of jungle games

Games

845 jungle, patch 16.14

Rank in role

13 of 77 jungle champions

Win impact against the average jungle pick on patch 16.14: +0.9 wins per 100 games (range -1.0 to 2.7) 845 games Pooled

What most Elise jungle players build, patch 16.14

Build Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Stormsurge, and run Dark Harvest

The rune page they run

Domination

Dark Harvest

Precision

Shards

459 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 235 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W	W							W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Max Q, then W, then E. The level by level count.

66 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 52% (range 40-63) · 66 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Elise jungle is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 845 games, of which 447 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: jungle, support and top, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.9 per 100 vs the jungle average · 845 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (740 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (+11.0, range -2.9 to +24.9)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Elise players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Elise, jungle

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 4 of them cleared 30 games.

Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Stormsurge
51.5% 66 games
Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass and Shadowflame
61.5% 52 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane and Shadowflame
77.1% 35 games
Lich Bane, Void Staff and Shadowflame
60.0% 30 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Elise, support

2 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Stormsurge
not enough games yet. 27 games so far, this needs 30. 27 games
Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass and Stormsurge
not enough games yet. 9 games so far, this needs 30. 9 games

Elise, top

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No top build recorded yet

We have 41 games of Elise top on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Elise players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Elise, jungle

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 5 of them cleared 30 games.

Dark Harvest Domination with Precision

459 games

Domination

Dark Harvest

Precision

Shards

459 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Stormraider's Surge Sorcery with Precision

103 games

Electrocute Domination with Precision

95 games

Electrocute Domination with Sorcery

65 games

Dark Harvest Domination with Sorcery

55 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Dark Harvest: 53.2% 524 games
Electrocute: 49.7% 173 games
Stormraider's Surge: 53.6% 110 games

7 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Elise, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 4 of them cleared 30 games.

Electrocute Domination with Precision

275 games

Domination

Electrocute

Precision

Shards

275 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Electrocute Domination with Inspiration

109 games

Electrocute Domination with Sorcery

83 games

Dark Harvest Domination with Precision

54 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Electrocute: 51.0% 471 games
Dark Harvest: 49.4% 77 games

6 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Elise, top

8 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Press the Attack Precision with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30. 10 games

Precision

Press the Attack

Sorcery

Shards

10 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Conqueror Precision with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 5 games so far, this needs 30. 5 games

Electrocute Domination with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 5 games so far, this needs 30. 5 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Press the Attack: not enough games yet. 14 games so far, this needs 30. 14 games
Electrocute: not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30. 10 games
Conqueror: not enough games yet. 5 games so far, this needs 30. 5 games

4 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then W, then E

235 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 100% of 231 Q-first games and 75% of 4 W-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

not enough games

Elise jungle skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 235 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W	W							W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Almost nobody maxed W first, so there is nothing to compare. +1 wins per 100 games (range -10 to 12) 233 games Measured 230 games maxed Q first, 3 games maxed W first.

Max Q, then E, then W

182 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 99% of 122 Q-first games and 63% of 57 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

too close

Elise support skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 182 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W					W		W		W	W
E	E													E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Maxing Q and maxing E are too close to separate. -2 wins per 100 games (range -13 to 9) 157 games Measured 121 games maxed Q first, 36 games maxed E first.

No measured difference between maxing Q and E first, 157 games.

Elise, top

Not enough top level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 6 games so far, this needs 30.

Elise top has 41 games recorded, but only 6 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Elise jungle build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Stormsurge: 17:44 552 games
Shadowflame: 20:43 1,918 games
Zhonya's Hourglass: 25:56 1,680 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Elise?

The opponents Elise jungle loses to most and the teammates Elise gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

Not enough games yet to rank Elise's opponents. Elisejungle has 871 games recorded on patch 16.14, and ranking opponents needs 1,000 before the baseline is steady; every opponent so far is counted, not ranked.

Best teammates

Not enough games yet to rank the champions Elise wins beside.

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Elise rank?

Every role we recorded Elise in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Elise by role

jungle B +0.9 wins per 100 games (range -1.0 to 2.7) 845 games Pooled: 54 845 games
support B +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 2.1) 566 games Pooled: 48 566 games
top C -0.1 wins per 100 games (range -2.2 to 2.1) 41 games Pooled: 45 41 games
mid not enough games yet. 19 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 19 games
bot not enough games yet. 1 game so far, this needs 30.: not scored 1 game

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Elise

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.