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Why Poppy is "Bad in Lane"

DustyElLion··4 votes·802 views

I've seen it far too many times, the popular consensus is "X Champion has a hard laning phase." Folks take this to mean "I can just do what ever I want in lane so I'm just going to walk up to Poppy and duel her!"

Poppy is not weak for lacking of dueling power or even trading (against melee opponents that is). She's weak because she has no wave clear, no sustain, and her one gap closer has a nasty habit of putting her in the middle of the enemy minion lines. You don't just walk into lane and try and all in Poppy. Her passive and her W make her a potent duelist in a vacuum. And if you engage in repeated trades with her that let her hit back she will kill you around level 4-5, especially if she gets a wall stun off.

If you want to shut down Poppy you either A. Take a ranged champ and safely harass her down, or take a melee champion with superior wave clear or sustain (Cho'goth is a bitch for Poppy). You whittle her down till you can zone her or safely all in her. You don't try to 1v1 duel her at full health, you don't let her land Q's on you, and most importantly you DON'T DIVE HER.

So please would people stop bitching when I kill them in lane, its your own god damn fault.

5 Comments

Saianna2 votes

Bit misleading title.

Though i agree with you.

Basic rules of LoL:

  1. Don't chase singed
  2. Don't Dive poppy
Kingsgrave1 votes

The only way they could figure out how to make Poppy not work, because she is honestly way too powerful when she does work and it doesnt even take a remote amount of skill to 1v5 an entire team with 2 items, is to heavily increase her mana costs and heavily reduce her mana pool.

Honestly her skill set alone is kinda bland and boring. I really hope she is a lot more than just "tackle the ADC while ignoring the rest of the team" when she gets Reworked.

DustyElLion2 votes

{quoted} The only way they could figure out how to make Poppy not work, because she is honestly way too powerful when she does work and it doesnt even take a remote amount of skill to 1v5 an entire team with 2 items, is to heavily increase her mana costs and heavily reduce her mana pool.

Honestly her skill set alone is kinda bland and boring. I really hope she is a lot more than just "tackle the ADC while ignoring the rest of the team" when she gets Reworked.

They said they wanted her to be a fighter, so I expect some sort of work to even her damage out instead of having most of it front loaded on her Q. Right now she's this weird fighter-assassin hybrid, she's an assassin when her ult is up and a mediocre fighter when its down.

Xx420n0sc0p3sxX1 votes

You do realize she has one of the lowest mana pools? Her mana problems are insane, even lategame she runs out of half her mana from a single camp.

IwfiKe3qjM1 votes

From every Poppy match I spectated:

  1. If there is enemy whose kit forced a stacking Health... Max Q first... W second...
  2. If there is none... W first... Q second...
  3. If you want to ult... if enemy has a tank... target the tank... then ignore the tank... and destroy carry first... then everyone else...
  4. If enemy has no tank... target who dealt least damage and CC to you... and still... destroy carry first... then everyone else...

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