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How good is Poppy right now?

kaironen·1/13/2018, 1:01:36 AM·1 votes·4,227 views

I'm just curious but how good is she right now? I'm currently a 1 trick player (although I do play some other top lane champions) and I'm curious into how good she really is. I personally put her in the lower end of tier 2. She has some good potential and can either build full tank or 1 to 2 damage items into tank and can be a good frontline for the team. She can also bully the enemy laner if they get too close to her so she can q poke them constantly. However, she gets easily countered by all ins and most ranged top laners. I think she's in a balanced spot right now and I don't want her to get a direct buff (although they are nerfing her next patch indirectly with coup de grace and last stand nerf, I go precision secondary because of alacrity mainly though). The only buff I could ask is for her e to become unstoppable (unable to be displaced) since getting my e canceled by vayne condemn and other things is extremely annoying since they messed up by going near a wall in the first place, but I don't mind if she doesn't get the buff. Feel free to share your thoughts about how good (or bad) poppy is right now :).

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ChallengerTier1/13/2018, 4:33:36 AM2 votes

She's like a low C tier right now, if the ranks were S, A, B, C, D. She does well into a team with a lot of dashes/jumps that can be canceled, for exampled trist, yasuo, riven, irelia, etc. But there are better tanks that can offer more utility and/or damage such as ornn or singed, or carry top laners than can carry a game much easier than poppy can. Currently has a 47% wr so shes pretty bad but if you like playing her stick to her.

PopcornBunni1/13/2018, 6:15:24 AM2 votes

She's pretty bad. A part if it is the bruiser meta toplane that all shut her out of cs, but another large part is the nerfs carried from early season 7 to her shield alongside the "tank" update that gutted all of her core items -- item 3068 item 3065 item 3742 item 3102 . With her ridiculously low base health, the shift of tank items from health to resistances, and the complete overhaul of banshee's veil as a viable tank item has left her extremely fragile until late game.

The problem is that she gets shut out too easily from gold, so while she's still piecing together the second of her four items need to actually be tanky finally, her lane opponent will have bought item 3071 to invalidate the rest of her build, and two other items to make them decimate your teammates.

Add on top of that the best top lane performers right now -- Kayle Gangplank Illaoi Kled Nasus all out trade and out sustain her through their mechanics, where she has no innate sustain.

She also loses hard to anything with range, having only her short targeted dash as a means of getting in, and being unable to deal with harass well.

She does decently when engage tanks are the strongest picks top, since her W can block their long-cooldown dashes -- Ornn Galio Shen -- and her Q can trade against their health stacking while having more range than other tank's basic skills. It's just that her W does nothing in several matchups, and in others still, the opposing champ can have several dashes, invalidating her W altogether -- Yasuo Riven Renekton

On that point, she does fairly well against some divers meant to jump into a fight, and against assassins with dashes trying to escape her cc -- Camille Talon MonkeyKing Irelia

She was hit quite hard by the masteries and old runes being taken out in favor of the new runes on top of all this. She no longer has Fearless (10 flat resistances + a % of resistances extra), Siegemaster (8 resistances while farming under tower), Legendary Guardian (6 resistances when ganked), armor reds (8.5 armor), or armor quints (12 armor) to help her out early, where she really struggles to tank even a handful of hits.

Death by Glamour1/13/2018, 2:53:50 AM1 votes

Shes meh, not a terrible nor an amazing pick

FOR JUSTICE1/13/2018, 5:31:34 AM1 votes

imo shes not particulary great, but shes not Aatrox either.

Niyume1/13/2018, 5:32:33 AM1 votes

She's not very good anymore after Riot gutted her because she got in the way of fla$hy big play$ at LC$. She can still do things if you're good at her, but she's not generally good.

LOOΠΔTIC6/17/2018, 9:04:47 AM1 votes

When i started to play league of legends which was maybe for 8 months ago? I got a skin for Poppy. But since I didn't play her I just rerolled it. Which I kinda regret now since I want to play Poppy, but since she is not so good rn, I'm not sure lol :P