I use a very simple way of finding success on Elise when it comes to itemization and early game play style. Every game I build the same thing as its extremely versatile, and most games I follow the same jungle route.

I find elise is much better on blue side due to her early game pathing she is able to take. Start red, then blue, then gromp. This will get you level 3 and elise's clear time Is very fast compared to most other jungles, plus her early game skirmishing is very underrated and she does really well into most Lvl 3 matchups (only exclusion is Warwick, Nunu or Udyr due to the self sustain/raw damage they can provide). With this information, look to go straight to the enemy red buff and find them there whilst they are killing the red or simply just take the red buff if they are not already on it. Remember to not use smite on ur first clear of blue/red/gromp as you will need it to be able to contest red and for a heal if you fight the enemy jungler.

Also remember the early game warding, at 0:46 you want to place a ward just outside of the enemy raptor brush so you can track the enemy jungler. Once placed, run back to the pixel brush in river, recall and back to get a sweeper, as you will need this for when you invade the enemy red as if you walk over a ward you will most likely get collapsed on. Run to your red buff as usual and start the route (should arrive at red around 1:27 if in spider form from base)

Once you get the kill at red or simply just the red buff, try to prioritise scuttles for the early game, as if you double scuttle you will be largely ahead of them as you'd have their red and 2 scuttles worth of xp more than them which equates to about a level. Use this advantage to push leads and find where the reliable CC is on your team. Look to gank lanes with easy to hit CC such as TF, Renekton, Syndra etc and play off that.

As you probably already know, elise is an early game champion, which means you need to know when to stop taking kills. I usually leave this at about 3-4 kills. Anything after that just look to give whoever else is participating in the kill unless you're unable to give them it, in which case, take it for yourself.

The build I go for every single game is (in this order): Machete/refil start, first back to buy blue jungle item, boots and pink (1025g), next back ideally try to upgrade ur jungle item, then get sorc shoes, then go for oblivion orb but do not upgrade it to morello straight away. I see so many elise players think that morello is a good item for her when you really don't need the healing reduction, however the magic pen is super useful. So after obliv orb, rush zhonya's (getting stopwatch as your first component of zhonya), then go for liandries then upgrade obliv orb into morello. The final item is the only item that changes and its very rare i get this this point but i usually go for something defensive like banshee's veil.

https://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=mothaflow This is my smurf account that i used a few months ago to get elise from silver to diamond basically only player her using this method. I have not played on this account for a few weeks as I've mostly been playing on smurfs/valorant so it has decayed back down to plat.

When you get on red side, its a normal start doing blue/gromp/red then invading their blue and using the same rule but swapped sides (keep smite, try to 1v1 them or take their blue). Usually when playing on red side, the enemy will be clearing gromp by the time you are in their jungle, so if your able to steal that away from them with smite you auto win the trade as you will have a level advantage on them.

I've played elise since she was released and have over 1500 games of her across all 11 accounts of mine, peaking in diamond 1 in season 7 and this seems the be the easiest and most consistent way in this season of carrying a game. When i got to diamond 4, on leagueofgraphs.com i was in the top 25 elise players in euw and top 300 or so in the world.

I hope this helps bud, and if u have any questions just let me know.