Bring back 1v5 Poppy?

Nhika·Dec 8, 2019·1 votes·871 views

Not gonna lie; I feel like dodging every time MY team has a poppy. Atleast the old Poppy - post rework was sorta playable in terms of diving ADC's and stuff.

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PopcornBunniDec 8, 20191 votes

She can still soft-carry and get picks with wallstuns on a full AD build, but my issue with her is that playing anything but full AD feels like a waste.

Her defensive items got completely gutted in the7.6 midseason tank patch, her defensive runes and masteries got completely gutted in pre-season 8 removing 13-31 armor from runes and 20+ from masteries, and then her W resistances got cut by a third along with a shorter knock up on R preventing her from doing her full combo or even doing R-> run past -> tackle the enemy toward your team. Only once the stat shards got put in and partially reverted her missing runes (now missing 1-19 armor and still missing the 20+ from masteries) did she start to feel properly able to build tank without dying instantly.

But then her W got reworked with compensation nerfs on a 1% PR 47% WR champion that were (mostly) reverted. It's like every change is half a step forward and 4 steps back on her. Right now between her missing resistances from items, runes, masteries, and her own kit, she doesn't even counter the kind of burst and/or dash focused champions she's supposed to like Garen Rengar Ornn , and even what are supposed to be her strongest matchups are near 50/50 Riven Irelia Akali .

I mean sure she's capable of beating them, but it isn't from being a tank, it's from outmatching them in damage. It's telling that her highest winrate items are bruiser/offtank all-in burst options like item 3078 item 3742 while her completed tank items sit closer to the 48-51% WR range.

I don't want 5v1 superbruiser Poppy. Hell revert her Q damage to 7% health per hit and take off the +5 damage to her spells from pre-season 8's changes as long as she gets her items and W resistances back.