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Rework the Poppy Rework

Calibansfury·3/20/2016, 9:29:38 PM·3 votes·557 views

First, the ult is frankly boring. Her ult is...the "not-fight".

Her previous ult was fantastic. The perfect back-line diver. Her old ult was fun, aggressive, it was play making and it was a fun initiator. When Poppy ulted, things were about to go down.

But now? Her current us is a de-initiator. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRIIIING. We already have a Janna, thanks.

Here's me on Vi the other day, going after fed Poppy, who was damaged by the AP mid before she murdered them. I have some distance to travel, so I load the vault breaker and NOPE. Blocked. Ok so I'll just ult aaaaaaaaaaaaaand she hammers me back to base before I can even get the 'unstoppable' dunk off. Boring.

Here's me on Xin the other day...nope.

Here's me on Tryn...nope. Oh hey she just charged me and slammed me. Oh she did half my health. OH LOOK SHE PUT UP HER DASH BLOCKER SO NOW I CANT SPIN TO TOWER SAFETY.

Ekko...nope.

I could go on. But the old poppy was much more fun to play. Her farm ability top lane was weak before. Modifying her Q a little couldve fixed that, the rest of her kit was perfect. Rework the rework!

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LoLKiru3/20/2016, 9:38:14 PM3 votes

More like, the rest of her kit was absolutely broken (both in terms of what it accomplished, and technically)

To get the small thing out of the way, on the technical side of things her E was associated with NUMEROUS bugs.

She probably had one of the strongest passives in the entire game, and an absurdly powerful ult; that in itself was the very definition of no counterplay, since as much as people throw the phrase around, there is quite literally NOTHING you can do to poppy (Could you exhaust her? Not sure) except PRAY that the person she decided to ult could stop her long enough for her protection to end.

Sure, we can revert the rework, then we just need to turn her back into one of the weakest laners in the entire game with no chance of ever being buffed because of how much her kit would utterly break the game if it were strong.