Current thoughts on poppy, mind giving me your input?

Sorgklaan··1 votes·761 views

I have played her several times now and seen her played just as many, and I have to say... Something about her feels very bad and unsatisfying.

So much of her power seems to be loaded directly into the utility on her ult, and when her ult is on cooldown she only feels like a partial champion, she feels as if her entire role is just non-existent. Not only does her ult feel like it has a very long cooldown, the actual situations she can use it in feel lacking since it's a very small AOE, and it will always knock an enemy back towards their base. I feel like her ultimate either needs to be off cooldown more often so she can take advantage of those strategic moments when she can use it without fucking over her team, or else the rest of her kit needs a bit of a buff so she doesn't feel completely gimped whenever it's not up.

She feels too niche, her actual moments of satisfying power are spread out too much, as are the times at which she feels useful and impactful compared to other champions.

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EK Kimozzi2 votes

I have played with my friend who plays poppy. I am not really sure how it feels like to play poppy in lane, but as a mid laner or adc, having poppy in front of me is very reliable. she can protect carries from bruisers and can lock down enemy adcs inside of her w. I do not think she needs buff on her other kits tbh. She is tanker who can counters all dashs. she should not be so strong that she can beat anyone by herself.

Sorgklaan1 votes

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I have played with my friend who plays poppy. I am not really sure how it feels like to play poppy in lane, but as a mid laner or adc, having poppy in front of me is very reliable. she can protect carries from bruisers and can lock down enemy adcs inside of her w. I do not think she needs buff on her other kits tbh. She is tanker who can counters all dashs. she should not be so strong that she can beat anyone by herself.

Good point.

Shac Norris1 votes

She's cute, she has face animations, she's badass and she's a yordle.

Not really any reason to question her balance

Sorgklaan1 votes

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She's cute, she has face animations, she's badass and she's a yordle.

Not really any reason to question her balance

It's not even about balance so much as it is player satisfaction. There's no doubt she's impactful, but she doesn't... Feel impactful. You ult every few minutes, then you just sort of do fuckall until you get another opportunity to ult.

Snowball4u1 votes

the ult makes you untargetable.

therefore shes balanced

Sorgklaan1 votes

I don't know, I played her again and she feels the same.

She feels like she has no reason to exist, she's stuck in this weird zone of being massively niche, while having so many other champions that do the same thing she does. Her big problem is that she rarely gets a chance to ult more than 2-3 times a game, atleast reliably. I just feel like her kit is super fucking generic while her ult is too niche to use effectively 90% of the time.

Niyumi1 votes

She's become a bit of a high skillcap champion, seemingly as unplayable as Azir (she has a 38% win rate, last I checked). I've gotten my second ever penta with new Poppy, and I play her every role but ADC pretty well. If you build her for damage, she can do a lot of it so long as you land a stun + Q + Triforce AA, and then you can even tap R for the final blow, or just even more damage while you reposition. :P

I love the new Poppy. ^^

Big Lincoln1 votes

i find her kit really hard to enjoy and i hate everything about her ult

she feels like a forced design because riot deliberately wanted to keep as little of old poppy as possible

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

I LOVE the new Poppy, but then aghain I love being disruptive and annoying more than I love doing huge damage, so she fits right in to my playstyle.

BASH into the wall, BASH the ground, BASH THEIR FACE and send them flyin' round.

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