97 Comments

PopcornBunni4/17/2018, 10:22:20 PM15 votes

She's been bad for a while too. Since at least the "tank update" that gutted her items hard, but even prior to that since they weakened her passive shield "because combined with Courage of the Colossus gave her too strong of a no-cost burst shield," before Courage was promptly nerfed into usability and eventually removed entirely with the new runes/mastery system.

Meanwhile Riven gets an actually free shield on a lower cooldown and usable literally whenever she wants instead of having to last hit or foreshadow it by tossing it to the ground. Yasuo's is even stronger and just as free throughout the game, and active shields with costs like Nautilus's were and still are the strongest in the game while having a duration effective as long as until it's broken through.

The only time she can do anything meritable is against an opponent that doesn't know how to stay on the road in the middle of the lane where she can get her wall stun off.

No clue what these nerfs are you're talking about, but she's been in need of help for well over a year now.

WzqdQsZwQA4/17/2018, 9:54:05 PM11 votes
DW Diana4/18/2018, 7:53:05 AM5 votes

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See: http://champion.gg/champion/Poppy/Top 36 / 46 48.55%

http://www.op.gg/champion/poppy/statistics/top 34th /50 48.95%

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/poppy 48.2%

Are you kidding me? She's under-powered already, and you're nerfing her? Seriously? [sg-lux-2]

Riot: but the pro's use her against camille! How can we keep the champions we like viable without nerfing everything that has a counter to them?!?!?!?

T4underbolt4/18/2018, 6:22:35 AM2 votes

I love how people keep pulling winrates to prove a point while poppy runs rampart and destroys every non tank match up in top lane and even if enemy dodges her stun and one part of her q she still outtrade him with just autos. Not mentioning she is immortal that is to her passive and w passive. When will you learn that win rate means nothing. She is just not as strong as other top picks but still strong enough to need her power to be lowered

Kaìju4/17/2018, 10:19:34 PM1 votes

What's the nerf, I can't find it

Tundra Hunter4/18/2018, 2:06:47 AM1 votes

I think the main thing is the instant R being now a knockup (no longer making champs untargetable). Meaning you can now engage a fight with R like you would with Alistar Q or Malphite R. It's a huge buff and I guess they nerf other parts of the kit to compensate.