Poppy, still viable as glasscannon?

Platurt·11/29/2015, 1:51:12 PM·1 votes·677 views

I've seen the Poppy rework on PBE and got to say, it looks pretty awesome. Only thing I'm kind of concerned about... Her defensive power on the passive and the w are scaling from her max hp and armor/mr, meaning an offensive Poppy won't profit that much from them, especially since a squishy one might not have the time to pick her shield up in the first place.

That and her ad scalings aren't that high either when compared to other champs which we mostly see with some defensive Items in their core, Jarvan IV for example. So with all the stuff in her kit she sure will be a great Offtank, but it doesn't seem like she'll still be able to go full offensive and smash stuff for huge damage while being kind of squishy, which I kind of expect from her being a Yordle with a huge hammer...

So, is that what this rework is supposed to be, turn her mostly into a bulky fighter, or will her full offensive playstile stay viable?

5 Comments

Ralanr11/29/2015, 2:03:01 PM1 votes

She's being shifted more towards a tank than a burster from what I can tell.

Flaherty11/29/2015, 2:03:12 PM1 votes

I believe that they made her only work as a bulky fighter now since they wanted to fulfill her lore identity more through her gameplay. You could probably still build very squishy and do well but it's going to be a lot harder to do well after the changes to her

Platurt11/29/2015, 2:19:39 PM1 votes

Hm, that's unfortunate...

Well, maybe they will take away 40 base dmg and increase some bonus ad scaling by 0.2 or something like that. Yknow, buffing dmg Poppy, nerfing fulltank Poppy while not touching offtank Poppy.

Duke Anax11/29/2015, 2:32:10 PM1 votes

Apparently her ratios are better, so she can actually do huge damage when going glass cannon now.

But if she goes more into the bruiser category with a bit of defense build in, she can do the same damage as before with good defense.

Abusing her buckler with item 3094item 3087item 3078item 3025item 3022 item 3742 is a nice gimmic. She alsways uses the buckler as her first attack.

Using a Health AD build like item 3748 item 3078 item 3053 item 3742 could work pretty well.

Asayake 5150glow11/29/2015, 7:17:21 PM1 votes

I thought her AD scales were terrible?