Elise
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Excellent (9/10)
Low Investment
Rare Relics OK
Elise is an exceptionally fast and aggressive champion who excels at overwhelming opponents in the first few turns. She requires minimal investment to be highly effective, though her absolute maximum damage potential utilizes specific Epic and Paid relics.
Queen's Vanguard
Consolidates multiple powerful keywords, rapidly activating Evolve and providing significant stat scaling.
Grants the crucial Scout keyword to her spiderlings while recalling Elise to prevent her from leveling up.
Ensures Elise is drawn early and provides zero-cost champion spells to consistently flood the board.
Strategy
This optimal setup maximizes Elise's early-game consistency and keyword generation. Echoing Spirit guarantees her presence in the opening hand, which is critical for her game plan. Galeforce allows her to attack twice, transferring Scout to her spiderlings, and recalls her at the end of the round. This recall is highly beneficial, as it prevents her from transforming into her weaker leveled-up form and allows her to be replayed to trigger her 4-star summon effect repeatedly.
Experimental Aggression
Provides Overwhelm and Impact, ensuring that damage pierces through enemy blockers.
Amplifies the Impact damage and provides the Spirit keyword for additional scaling.- Enables multiple attack phases to maximize the damage output of the buffed spiderlings.
Strategy
Designed for maximum Turn 1 damage output, this build focuses on stacking offensive keywords. Cruel Experiments grants Overwhelm and Impact, which are then amplified by the Spirit keyword from Fear-Cleaving Axe. When combined with the Scout attacks from Galeforce, this combination ensures that even if Elise's swarm is blocked, massive damage will pierce through to the enemy Nexus, frequently resulting in immediate victories.
Fortune's Swarm
Guarantees powerful Epic item upgrades for summoned spiderlings.- Provides the necessary Scout keyword to maximize the effectiveness of the upgraded spiderlings.
Grants Overwhelm and additional stats to all 1-cost units.
Strategy
An alternative approach that focuses on scaling spiderlings with Epic items rather than relying solely on Elise's innate keyword transfer. Found Fortune consistently targets the 1-cost spiderlings, potentially granting them game-ending items like Double Attack or Elusive. Spirit of the Buhru ensures that these highly buffed units have Overwhelm to push their damage through.
Budget Arachnids
- Essential for the Scout keyword and multiple attack phases.
Grants Elise immediate stats and keywords as units fall in combat.
Provides immediate Spirit and Impact to the board.
Strategy
A highly effective build utilizing only Rare and Common relics. Dreams of Yordles serves as an excellent baseline for providing Spirit and Impact to the board. Voidborne Carapace allows Elise to absorb keywords and stats as her fragile spiderlings die in combat, making her progressively more dangerous. Galeforce remains the cornerstone of the strategy, enabling the aggressive, multi-attack turns that define her playstyle.
Other Relic Options
Excellent for consolidating stats and keywords onto Elise, particularly effective when combined with Elusive or Rally effects on her spiderlings.
A strong alternative for providing Overwhelm and a global stat boost to all spider units if other Epic options are unavailable.
Offers Challenger, which is highly valuable in difficult encounters for controlling the board and protecting key attackers.
Grants Elusive to supported spiderlings, enabling direct Nexus strikes that bypass large enemy blockers.
Constellation
Elise is incredibly strong at her baseline 3-star level, capable of clearing most high-difficulty content with ease. Her constellation upgrades primarily offer alternative playstyles and safety nets rather than strictly necessary power spikes for her core aggressive strategy.
Spider Queen
When allies attack, grant allied Spiderlings everywhere +1|+0.
Caught In The Webs
+1 Starting Mana. Round End: If an ally died this round, summon a Spiderling.
Spider Queen II
When allies attack, grant allied Spiderlings everywhere +1|+0 and the positive keyword of allied champions.
Adaptation
When you summon a champion, grant it two random keywords allies don't have.Review
Highly impactful. Granting a random keyword on summon synergizes perfectly with her wide board and makes recall mechanics exceptionally powerful, as she can be repeatedly summoned to stack keywords and rapidly activate the Evolve keyword.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Recurring Nightmare
Game Start: Plant 3 Vilemaws as Nightmares in the enemy deck. When a Spider ally dies, plant a copy of it as a Nightmare in the enemy deck. When you play a Spider Terrify 1.Review
Players disagree about the effectiveness of this upgrade. Some consider it an invaluable safety net that provides infinite board presence and resilience against board wipes, allowing her to stabilize in longer matches. While others argue that its focus on a slower, Terrify-based strategy contradicts her primary objective of securing victories within the first few turns.
Gameplay Tips
- Avoid Leveling Up
Elise's leveled form loses the Fearsome keyword and stops generating spiderlings on attack. Utilizing recall mechanics prevents this transition, allowing her to maintain her optimal aggressive state.
- Prioritize Spiderling Buffs
Elise's primary role is to transfer powerful keywords like Scout, Spirit, and Impact to her spiderlings. Do not prioritize her personal survival over executing a highly buffed attack; her death is an acceptable trade for massive Nexus damage.
- Exploit Scout Mechanics
The AI frequently fails to block Scout attacks optimally. Use this behavioral tendency to push massive early Nexus damage before the opponent can establish a defensive board.
- Leverage Evolve Synergies
Powers or relics that grant random keywords rapidly accelerate the Evolve requirement. Once activated, the permanent +2|+2 stat boost to the entire board often secures an immediate victory.
- Manage Board Space
When utilizing Challenger on spiderlings, intentionally sacrifice them against stronger enemy units to clear board space. This ensures you always have room to summon fresh, fully-buffed spiderlings on subsequent turns.