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8.9 Poppy nerf is shit

Inazuma Seishin··7 votes·3,132 views

Ok so what's up with the Poppy nerf with patch 8.9 but no nerf to YI? Right now Yi is able to one shot you with his Q and it's feeling very broken and extremely hard not to feed him right now. I am Poppy main and I relied on the W to give me the speed to get out of ganks, but now that the permanent speed is just a buff by 30% her mobility feels killed off to me, she already has no built in sustain and extremely low mobility. Now I have to rely on my E to push me out of situations, and if that's on cool down my W won't save me anymore from Yi's ult or Q. The only "good" thing they've done is increased range, which isn't going to help. It's a big issue for me right now as I main Poppy, it makes it more frustrating that they nerfed her movement speed to 340 from 345, it's like they're trying to make her more vunerable. The nerf feels unneeded as Yi or Xin need a nerf more than her, it really isn't balanced anymore as now that she doesn't have the armor, or speed, I so heavily relied on with her W when I got ganked. I feel like this newest nerf to her wasn't something that needed to be done and that other more broken champs needed it much more than Poppy. Might get hate for this, but it's just how I feel with the most recent nerf to her.

13 Comments

heroikc3 votes

Yeah, and they nerf her because of "statchecks" yet buff the biggest stat check of them all, Mundo

Inazuma Seishin1 votes

Yeah, it's forcing me to play other lanes till they make her playable again

Death by Glamour3 votes

Tbf mundo has been needing that buff for a while thanks to gw being on about every item

Garen buffs tho...

heroikc1 votes

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Yeah, it's forcing me to play other lanes till they make her playable again

I've lost all interest in top since they power nerfed Ornn back into oblivion...been playing more mid lane now... Swain and Orianna have been pretty fun, btw.

Inazuma Seishin1 votes

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I've lost all interest in top since they power nerfed Ornn back into oblivion...been playing more mid lane now... Swain and Orianna have been pretty fun, btw.

Yeah, I'm playing Azir, Twitch, and Evelynn till the next buff for her.

ManBearPig9162 votes

Poppy should have her ult changed so that soon after you hit R (charged only) when it digs into the groujnd, she can press R again within 0.5 seconds to follow through, flipping her forward and damaging and thrusting anybody behind her backwards. It would be much like that game "Getting Over It."

This would be nice because it would give the ability's damage up to 2 directions of use plus mobility, so the ultimate wouldn't be trash.

You could tap it, for the knockup, but you're stuck, committed to the fight.

OR

You could hit it hard, (whether you knock someone in front of you towards their base or not), tap it again quickly and thrust yourself forward while you knock back enemies behind you (Knockback only, not a return to base).

Then, I'd find a move speed nerf fair, if you go and give me more useful mobility elsewhere.

Inazuma Seishin1 votes

I think your comment has to be my favorite so far, because right now, there's only a few good uses for her ult, but other than that it feels like it's lacking. Especially since she wields the hammer that can "Split mountains and rupture the Earth" something along the lines of that. I feel like she the most recent nerf could've actually been a trade off of sorts to give Poppy something instead of just "We nerfed her speed this patch, but hey we gave her some more range for you guys!" I wish they would actually try out their patches in a few games in at least a few more scenarios then just thinking it's a good idea and pressing it through. Like for Steadfast presence: "We nerfed her speed, but we gave you guys more armor and magic resist to her to make up for that lack of mobility, that way her W will still be used."

Dysnomia1 votes

Don't you dare question the logic of almighty balance team, mortal!

webstar11081 votes

One of those "nerf yi he's OP" posts LOL

Inazuma Seishin1 votes

Not about nerfing Yi, it's quite obvious that there's an issue with Poppy. She no sustain and now she doesn't have the mobility she needs. I am forced to build boots of swiftness on her to gain what speed she has lost in this nerf to her. I was simply pointing out that there are other champs that could be nerfed and do need a nerf. Till they give Poppy either sustain or her mobility back, I can't play her.

Colte1 votes

i don't even see poppy in any of my matches nor is she ever a threat, the dumbest nerf i ever seen and it started to make me lose hope in humanity when i saw mundo / garen buffed.. interns must be doing the balance updates..

[sg-ahri-1]

Inazuma Seishin1 votes

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i don't even see poppy in any of my matches nor is she ever a threat, the dumbest nerf i ever seen and it started to make me lose hope in humanity when i saw mundo / garen buffed.. interns must be doing the balance updates..

[sg-ahri-1]

I honestly ask why Riot decided it was a good idea to nerf her at all. Garen and Mundo didn't need their buffs, it's just sad that I can't even play her anymore when I love her so much.

Sephyz1 votes

I just find it silly. Poppy doesn't get any pro play... Poppy hardly get's any ranked play. Ornn is literally just a better version of poppy. More shield uptime.. health based dmg. better and less situational CC. If you have Ornn open there's 0 reason to play poppy. Yet we nerf poppy?

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