Poppy's W needs to work

The Ecdysiast··2 votes·613 views

If a champion is supposed to be able to get past Poppy's W, then they should have a blink. Abilities with an unstoppable dash are frankly broken against her. Sure, it's fine that someone else can't stun them during the move, but Poppy's W is only cc when someone is dashing, and it's on a pretty long cooldown. They have ample time to either be aware that it's been used or wait until it has. And if the top laner they're ganking doesn't have a dash to bait it, too bad. They already counter Poppy themselves by lacking a dash.

It's no argument to say that a champion would lose their main engage if this happened, because bans exist and that's already the case for several champions who aren't unstoppable. Banning Poppy when you want to pick Malphite is an option, and there wouldn't be any other direct counters to Malphite you'd need to be banning instead. Besides, champions like Lee Sin and Riven can't fight Poppy at all, because they always give her warning when they're going to dash and actually can't use half their kits while inside her W.

Poppy's W needs to be an exception to dashes that make champions unstoppable. They can easily ban her, and she hasn't been a popular pick since the CoC removal. There's no excuse to whine that your champion would be countered by her when there are many champions you can pick that aren't effected by her W in any way. Or you could just use your ban. Considering this is the only ability in the game that would be able to stop them, and there are currently no hard counters to any of the champions it would affect, you can easily use your ban on Poppy.

4 Comments

Big Lincoln2 votes

no, they're unstoppable. the point of it is that they can't be stopped

poppy is fine

Chembaron Yamada2 votes

These unstoppable skills are supposed to be reliable if you manage to hit them, so I still disagree that Poppy should be able to stop these skills. Poppy as she is right now is extremely effective at stopping engages already, since she can block dashes with her W which aren't CC immune and on top of that she has her ultimate, to send everyone who dares to try to engage on her team flying.

Unstoppable skills are a form of hard engage that works against her as long as her ultimate is on cooldown. I don't think we should make her negate these as well. If Poppy needs some help in form of buffs, there are other ways to achieve that. She doesn't have to be able to completely forbid engages for the enemy if she manages to get through the ban phase.

SuperLuigiLXIV1 votes

No.

heroikc1 votes

So? I clobbered Shaco's and Mundos and Dariuses with Poppy, and they all lack dashes. At least her W gives passive armor and MR.

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