Really disappointed Poppy does Physical Damage now.

Kari Arisu·11/25/2015, 1:53:52 PM·4 votes·727 views

I don't have a large amount of Poppy games, but I really dislike that new Poppy is basically all physical damage with no AP scaling, outside of her W which is pretty minor.

With old Poppy, you could build AD or AP, both did good things, and you could build hybrid items to get their effect without hurting your output. It was very common to get Sorc Boots and Void Staff on Poppy because they not only gave her desired MPen, but the AP from Void still benefited her damage.

I think I'll still enjoy playing new Poppy, but she's lost a lot of her interesting bits.

4 Comments

Bergk11/25/2015, 2:20:57 PM2 votes

IMO the biggest problem with the current poppy is her mana cost for all her abilities is way too high. You do one combo and you're oom. So I enjoyed playing AP jungle Poppy using Runeglaive item 1402 to help with her mana. RIP AP Poppy :'(

junglerboy1611/25/2015, 2:01:32 PM1 votes

Agreed, they should at the very least change the damage type of some of her abilities, even if they don't want her to have much AP scaling.

Fefnil11/25/2015, 2:43:39 PM1 votes

A full AD build can now be pretty fun, though. She has only bonus AD scalings, thus she scales very well with items. Her full combo is able to burst with (1038 + 455% bonus AD + 6% target's max hp) physical + (370 + 20% bonus AD + 10% AP) magic damage with Thunderlord's Decree, plus an extra 230 + 70% AP magic damage if she can proc W. With 5 Hydras / Bloodthirsters, a full arpen rune page and an offensive mastery page she can do 2780 + 6% target's max hp physical damage and 449 magic damage plus 2% increased spell damage from sorcery, 3% all damage from Double-Edged Sword and up to 5% from Bounty Hunter, and finally 5% from Merciless when enemy is at less than 40% hp. Roughly 3700 total damage, with a good amount of arpen. For comparison, Talon's full combo deals roughly 3000 damage to a stunned enemy with the same set. Not bad for a non-hero.

ModWulf Helhammer11/25/2015, 2:51:47 PM1 votes

W scales and deals magic damage. Her passive also deals magic damage (granted its a flat amount, but still)