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 relics.
Queen's Vanguard
Zoe Specialized
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, making it highly effective for difficult encounters like the 10-star Zoe adventure.
Echoing Spirit ensures Elise is drawn early and provides zero-cost champion spells to consistently flood the board. 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.
Queen's Embrace consolidates Spirit, Impact, and Evolve, rapidly scaling the board and providing a unique Fearsome effect that makes her units incredibly difficult to block.
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.
Budget Arachnids
- Essential for the Scout keyword and multiple attack phases.
Grants Overwhelm to Elise and all her summoned Spiderlings.
Provides immediate Spirit and Impact to the board.
Strategy
A highly effective build utilizing only Rare and Common relics, perfect for players without access to Epic options.
Galeforce remains the cornerstone of the strategy, enabling the aggressive, multi-attack turns that define her playstyle. Troll King's Crown grants Overwhelm to Elise and all her summoned Spiderlings, allowing them to push significant damage through blockers directly to the enemy Nexus. Dreams of Yordles serves as an excellent baseline for providing Spirit and Impact to the board, accelerating the victory condition.
Orb Swarm
- Enables multiple Scout attacks and shuffles Elise back into the deck at Round End.
Grants Epic items to random cards in the deck upon summon.- Ensures her spiderlings push lethal damage with Overwhelm.
Strategy
This build focuses on aggressive swarm tactics combined with long-term deck enhancement.
Galeforce enables multiple Scout attacks and shuffles Elise back into the deck at Round End, protecting her from continuous damage modifiers. Upon Elise's summon, Guardian's Orb grants Epic items to random cards in the deck, enhancing the overall power and consistency of future draws. Troll King's Crown ensures her spiderlings push lethal damage with Overwhelm.
Other Relic Options
Guarantees powerful Epic item upgrades for summoned spiderlings, offering a strong alternative scaling method.
Grants Overwhelm and a global stat boost to all spider units, serving as a highly reliable alternative for closing out games quickly.
Grants Overwhelm and additional stats to all 1-cost units, though The Beast Within is often preferred for its unconditional stat buffs.
Excellent for consolidating stats and keywords onto Elise, particularly effective when combined with Elusive or Rally effects, though it anti-synergizes with Galeforce.
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
Widely considered Elise's most impactful constellation node. By granting a random keyword on summon and providing Challenger and stats to Spiderlings, it drastically increases her early-game board control and synergizes perfectly with recall mechanics like Galeforce.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
Provides a standard mana gem upgrade, which is useful for accelerating her board development but not strictly necessary given her low mana curve.
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
Introduces a slower, more resilient playstyle by shuffling Vilemaw Nightmares into the deck and granting Terrify on play. Players disagree about the effectiveness of this upgrade. Some consider it an excellent safety net against board wipes and high-stat enemies. While others argue it diverges from her optimal ultra-aggressive strategy, as the Terrify effect requires playing spiders from hand rather than summoning them via attacks.
Gameplay Tips
- Avoid Leveling Up
Elise's leveled form loses the Fearsome keyword and stops generating spiderlings on attack. Utilizing recall mechanics like Galeforce 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.
- Overwhelm is Crucial
Ensure you acquire Overwhelm through relics or powers. Without it, Elise's wide board of spiderlings can be easily chump-blocked, stalling her aggressive game plan.
- Drafting Powers
The "Disarm" power is exceptionally effective, reducing enemy power before Elise's buffs apply. "Husk" generating powers also enable explosive Turn 1 plays by providing immediate sacrifice targets for zero-cost champion spells.