Despite being played by nearly exclusively one tricks, Poppy doesn't even scratch a 48% WR

dips below 49% for one patch even though everyone and their brother plays her and she gets massive buffs. is played explicitly by Poppy mains and is allowed to be in the gutter for 2 and a half years.

Ever since the midseason 7 patch gutted tank items, tanks have been struggling, and this is no more evident than with Poppy. Already boasting one of the lowest base health amounts in the game, the item changes to tank options, including the complete removal of an anti AP-burst item from tanks' kits () and most prominently drastically cut health from tank items in favor of armor for to ignore, or 10 extra MR for to invalidate.

The funny part is was changed to give less health and more MR to make it a "focused anti magic item" for tanks, when already did exactly that. New Visage doesn't even have as much MR as old Banshee's meaning all tanks get is a worse version of both.

But that wasn't enough no, then Poppy's own resistance bonus from W was cut by a third and the movement speed gutted along with her total movement speed hit, she lost her Estun-Auto-Q-Auto-R-Q-Auto combo by dropping R's knockup duration with no compensation to the rest of her combo, then W's dash canceling and movement speed duration were cut on top of the nerfs she got to the ability already. Only after it was seen that this dropped her winrate 2% instantly was the move speed partially, and only partially reverted, while still missing out on both durability and reliability as a tank.

She's too squishy to actually tank any amount of damage more than two auto attacks due to poor resistance scaling on W and low base health, and doesn't have either the base damage or scaling to build as an effective offtank. She lacks the engage tools of a diver or vanguard class while lacking the peel of a warden and the raw stats of a juggernaut. She's just bad in every measurable way, exacerbated more so now that her W can only stop dashes that are slow enough to telegraph themselves far in advanced, and unable to force enemies to hold their dashes for more than 2 seconds, ironically the time it takes to kill Poppy since the tank item and resistance gutting she got.