Poppy Really Feels Weird to Use

Troy242621·Dec 10, 2015·1 votes·379 views

This isn't about her being UP/OP/Balanced, just feels awkward to use. Biggest irritations for me are:

Her Passive. Often times, if you try to cast E, if she's anywhere near the maximum range of the skill, she will instead queue an AA animation with the increased AA range of her passive rapidly, causing you to just stand still and spin in place. Even clicking ahead of the enemy not on them then pressing E onto them seems to do this.
Her ultimate is just not very good. It's extremely easy to stop, and landing it just isn't very effective. It likes to not knock people back sometimes for some odd reason, or at least that has been my experience (Even when in range). Worst of all, if you're behind an enemy, you cannot use it to displace them. It'll just aid in their escape.

Therefore, the only time her ultimate is truly becomes ultimate-level efficient, is end game peeling for your ADC.

5 Comments

Critmaster GarenDec 10, 20151 votes

i think her ult is largely underestimated. in a teamfight it can cause gragas cask level havoc on the enemy team. you can displace multiple opponents and split the enemy team by taking them out of a fight, causing an opening for your team to collapse on the 2 or 3 possibly vulnerable targets that are left.

you can separate a support from his adc and go to town on the guy, or take heavy cc machines and peelers out of a fight.

or if the enemy team relies on one of their fed carries you can buy your team some breathing room by knocking him out of the fight to deal with his more vulnerable friends.

while it doesnt deal a lot of damage, it has a ton of strategic value. well probably see her in pro play because of it.

Troy242621Dec 10, 20151 votes

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i think her ult is largely underestimated. in a teamfight it can cause gragas cask level havoc on the enemy team. you can displace multiple opponents and split the enemy team by taking them out of a fight, causing an opening for your team to collapse on the 2 or 3 possibly vulnerable targets that are left.

you can separate a support from his adc and go to town on the guy, or take heavy cc machines and peelers out of a fight.

or if the enemy team relies on one of their fed carries you can buy your team some breathing room by knocking him out of the fight to deal with his more vulnerable friends.

while it doesnt deal a lot of damage, it has a ton of strategic value. well probably see her in pro play because of it.

Gragas' cask can knock enemies towards you or away, and is a lot faster. Also can't really be interrupted. Still, point taken. I should've said it doesn't feel good to use.

DREADN0UGHTDec 10, 20151 votes

From what I've experienced so far is that she is designed mainly for protection rather than offensive plays.

Her W active is great for stoppibg ganks, her E is still as annoying and alloes you to displace enemies who get too close to your backline and the ult is rly just a big disengage tool in my opinion. I don't feel like it has much use other than spliting a team in half or just stopping a rampaging enemy.

Though i think i have an answer for you concerning the bug you speak of:

If you don't charge the hammer enough it will only hit point blank targets and knock them up in place rathrr than 10 miles away.

Troy242621Dec 10, 20151 votes

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From what I've experienced so far is that she is designed mainly for protection rather than offensive plays.

Her W active is great for stoppibg ganks, her E is still as annoying and alloes you to displace enemies who get too close to your backline and the ult is rly just a big disengage tool in my opinion. I don't feel like it has much use other than spliting a team in half or just stopping a rampaging enemy.

Though i think i have an answer for you concerning the bug you speak of:

If you don't charge the hammer enough it will only hit point blank targets and knock them up in place rathrr than 10 miles away.

I completely agree. I just think it feels awkward how they limited her ultimate, and her skills behave strangely it seems.

It feels like a very artificial way of restricting it.

Troy242621Dec 11, 20151 votes