Why change poppy into something she is not?

To explain further about her passive, it mitigates any damage that would do more than 10% of her current health by 50%.

Sounds good on paper right? but when you do the numbers you will see that sure, it counters some champs, but is weak against others.

say you have 500 health, caitlyn starts auto attacking you, say 60 damage per hit (at time that your passive kicks in) 10% of your health is 50, so the leftover 10 damage is cut in half so you still take 55 damage. The next hit would deal 52.25 to your remaining health of 445. then about 50 damage the next hit, 47 the next ect... but always at least 10% of your current health. so when you only have 100 health left, that 60 damage hit is only really dealing 35 damage. So her passive give her invisible health you could say, makes it seem like she is easy to kill. (It is so fun to bait people with this). but now, a simple ignite, well that ignores all of that passive and she dies... so where she should have had a higher health pool instead it she has this passive, which has very clear counters as long as you understand it. Brand for example, his burn is almost always going to be less than that 10% threshold and therefore going to deal all of his damage, making poppy a very weak choice. basically anyone with damage over time can kill a poppy easily.

so while great against burst champs like riven and heavy ap burst like leblanc, poke comps and dots will mostly ignore the passive altogether. and even then, the riven and leblanc can just take ignite to counter her. (just realized how bad this is teaching people how to beat my main champ right now :P)

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passive makes her unique, its not op and honestly true damage makes her passive a gimp because she was created with the idea that she would survive longer at low health, thus her total health is underwhelming.

her q is no different that many other reactivatable auto attacks (as I mentioned Nasus's q is more op and has an unlimited max)

Her ult is not op unless you consider trynns ult and kayles ult op, which most don't, because they know how to play against them. Her ult makes her immune to everything EXCEPT the target she ults. This means that there is counter play. As a poppy main I know that an ulted target, does not mean I will be able to kill them, any heals, good kiting by the target itself, zhonyas, will delay me enough to lose the protection and then I die in the middle of their team. Honestly there are a bunch of champs that can "assassinate" better than poppy. She is actually very easily kited and against her counters she can't do much (I can list them if you want) . If you ult the support and go for their carries, then the support can stop you with any number of there cc abilities or buff the target as before mentioned. More often than not poppy's have to use their ult to run away and mitigate damage done to them because she would easily die without it.

Edit: Oh also wanted to talk about them keeping her e... her e is her hardest ability to land and easiest to counter... as a poppy player, whenever I go against a poppy i go the whole game without ever getting hit into a wall. So sure it is cool and satisfying when I get it off (which I am honestly talented at), but you can't rely on it. I have to admit I am interested in the the new abilities they plan to give her, but honestly, since it will basically all be different, why not just make a new champ?

I'm still saying if Poppy's E was turned into a skillshot she'd gain soooo much power

• no more hiding in the brush for you slam
• Time to run away~ / time to chase without moving your foe further from the fight.
• then she'd also be able to pass terrain so long as she isn't slamming someone into it.

That's basically what I said just longer. Like I said you don't know the exact changes they are making except for the fact they are keeping her E. For all you know she will still be tanky and hurt people, just not in the same way.