After spending two seasons fully on the bench, Elise has grabbed the eye {of professional} junglers to kick off the 2023 League of Legends season. In the LCS, she was picked for the second time in as many days, eclipsing her total whole from the earlier two seasons.
With TSM jungler Bugi choosing the champion yesterday and EG’s Impressed piloting her right now, Elise has extra choices by LCS gamers within the final two days than she did all through everything of the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Whereas Bugi was capable of finding a win with the champion, Impressed and EG have been dealt an unlucky loss after a marathon sport.
In main areas (LCS, LEC, LCK, LPL), Elise holds a presence charge of 27 p.c with a win-loss document of 8-3 up to now this 12 months, in keeping with League stats web site Games of Legends.
Associated: Schedule, scores, and standings for the 2023 LCS Spring Split
Throughout main areas worldwide, Elise had solely been picked 4 instances between 2021 and 2022. The one LCS participant to play the Spider Queen was Broxah, who received a 2021 Summer Split game along with her throughout his tenure with CLG. This season, Elise has already had 11 picks all through the main areas. The champion has not been really related within the meta since 2020 when she was a staple in roughly 1 / 4 of all skilled drafts. Ought to Elise sustain her present choose/ban charge all through the season, she’d be on par to have her most related season in three years.
Whereas Elise and her sturdy AP injury are actually precious in a crew comp, beefy, tankier junglers are reigning supreme to kick off the season. The highest three champions by way of choose/ban charge on the jungle place this season are Maokai, Vi, and Sejuani (in that order), in keeping with Games of Legends.
In virtually all the video games that Elise has been picked in up to now, groups have compensated by putting a tank in a solo lane, with Ok’Sante being a well-liked possibility for professional squads. When T1 picked Elise in a current win over Kwangdong Freecs, the crew put its tank within the mid lane by putting Faker on Sett.