Poppy ult vs turrets

1 Wing··2 votes·3,383 views

Can someone explain to me how Poppy's ult interaction with turrets is fair?

Currently, she ults, and if the turret is targetting her, then the turret will do no damage to her for the duration of Poppy's ult.

This flies in the face of how the turret interacts in all other scenarios. For instance, Yasuo and Braum, will block "all projectiles. . except turret shots;" a similar rule would be fitting for Poppy. Even Fizz, who can dodge a single turret shot, is considered quite OP because of that. Poppy can dodge all turret shots. She can just run in, hit someone, ult them, and then prevent all turret damage while he team goes in; the issue remains even if the defending team falls back to the next turret.

In situations like someone using Zonyas, the turret will change targets. Obviously the definition of Poppy's ult is different from Zonyas, but it seems to me a simple answer would be to have the turret damage either not be blocked, or for the turret to seek out a new target. I just cannot understand how the current situation persists in the game; probably because Poppy is an underutilized champion.

6 Comments

Champion Skin1 votes

That actually isn't true.. Kayle ult Kayle interacts with towers the same way as Poppy ult just that Kayle can target others with her ult

Iceshield991 votes

Well if you consider the duration of the ults... Kayle is only immune for 2 seconds. Poppy has immunity for 6-8 seconds. I agree that poppy should not be immune to turret damage, but that ult makes her unique, and gives her a nitch in the game as the indestructible yordle. As you can see, she isn't picked alot in high elo, due to her early game being sub par, and she is quite mana hungry. She isn't over powered until late game is reached, and then she releases all of her hellish destruction, and single handedly destroys the adc and wreck things. Her weakeness is cc, and it always will be -- true for most champs XD I suppose jungle poppy would be terrifying.

Teamslash1 votes

There are some people who would consider poppy's ult unbalanceable.

rtbf498151291 votes

Trynd ult is 5 seconds, if that helps, additionally if kayle ults someone she gets an assist on their kills... Poppy has to get assists with E or auto attack(same with vayne).

Wehrmacht Bunny1 votes

There's actually quite a few champions who have similar ults, and I think turrets should not be blocked by them.

Kayle Poppy Tryndamere

Then you have the ones with abilties that allow them to ignore turret shots,

MasterYi Fiora Fizz

Immune to turret shots is a dumb idea in my opinion, and calls for some really cheap gameplay.

Skia Asteri1 votes

It is allowed to exist because until this year she was never played competitively. And then it was only once (EU LCS, Unicorns of Love vs Millennium game 3).

One thing to keep in mind about being invulnerable while taking tower hit: the tower damage is still ramping up and will be doing tons of damage once the invulnerability ends if you do not lose tower aggro.

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