New Poppy has even more toxic gameplay than old poppy

The Patriachy·12/23/2015, 1:03:54 PM·3 votes·736 views

So I'm the guy who said to nerf Soraka and make a new ad assassin item to replace last whisper a month ago. Within a month, Riot makes a new assassin item and nerfs Soraka. Of course neither thread gets upvotes because people are too busy upvoting dumb shit like buff cinderhulk and nerf Yasuo when the mastery was the problem. Wonder if this will be any different.

The problem is that old Poppy at least needed items before she could utilize her toxic ult and remove someone from the fight (they had to spend the whole fight running away from an immune Poppy). If Poppy didn't do damage, you could just ignore her. All new Poppy has to do to do the exact same thing is use their easy to land ult on a carry to remove them from the fight. A support Poppy that IS 0/10 can make a 10/0 carry useless if they don't flash the ult. It doesn't really matter that Poppy has less kill potential when she can force a 4v5 every fight.

Riot acknowledges running from an immune poppy isn't fun. However, they think being ulted away from every teamfight is fun and non-toxic? Make it so her ult knocks them towards the nearest terrain so she can combo with her e. I think that would be far less toxic.

TLDR Old Poppy = run away from an immune Poppy for the whole teamfight New Poppy = Get ulted away and miss the entire teamfight One Poppy requires items to be effective and the other just requires you to be level 6. Both have equally toxic gameplay patterns.

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