Elise vs Nasus Counter Pick

Wither breaks Elise‘s pattern. It decelerates move speed and attack speed together on a champion whose Spider Form restores health by attacking and whose Skittering Frenzy exists purely to raise attack speed. Across 365 jungle games on patch 16.13.1 the result is 44.4% for her against Nasus.

Time favors him everywhere else too. Siphoning Strike grows permanently with each kill secured on it, Soul Eater supplies free life steal from level 1, and Fury of the Sands adds health and attack range while damaging everyone nearby. He also outmuscles her on the stat sheet: 650 health and 67 attack damage at level 1 against 620 and 55, 113.9 armor at level 18 against 106.5, and 350 move speed to 330. Spirit Fire reduces the armor of anyone standing in it, stripping the one defensive stat where she is close to him.

Her window is early and narrow. The 550 human-form range opens with Neurotoxin, which scales with how high his health is rather than how low, and Cocoon can hold him before Wither is online. Volatile Spiderling adds chip damage while she keeps her distance, and the Spider Form lunge deals more the lower his health falls, so a finisher exists if the earlier pressure landed. Both spend mana. A difficulty rating of 9 against his 6 makes that window harder to hit cleanly.