Riot, you ruined Poppy for Good.

I've been playing this champ since 2010. I have spent five years learning her nuances. Her matchups. Where she is strong and where she is weak. I have theorized builds, optimized runes for her, and have planned her through every patch, from the age of Rengar to the age of tanks. I remember when the mobility meta began to pick up, making it a lot harder to catch people with her measley mobility. I then remember when more tanks started to get more power, making top lane harder to survive at to the point where you pretty much sit under turret for twenty minutes to try to farm trinity force. Then she was forced into the jungle as a more reliable role, and it was fine, but then you realized how terrible her objective taking is. So you picked her support cause now you have a more reliable way of making gold by sitting on a talisman and maybe slamming the enemy adc now and again. Whatever the case, whatever the patch, Poppy had one identity: slam and pound. Make the carry on the other team fear your presence. I spent five years learning all these and I felt like I had gotten my rewards. I still can't win games over 50% of the time in ranked cause she doesn't have an overloaded kit like the more powerful and top tier champs in this game, so it's a lot easier to punish her, but isn't that a good thing? Should I be able to have the reward of having spent so much time learning her?

And now you want to remove her from the game for an easier and more generic kit? I played with her on PBE. She's not the same champion anymore. All her identity of having deceptive tankiness has been reduced to a 40% health requirement. Her Q is not a consistent damaging ability, and isn't even guaranteed. Her wall charge is faster, thank God. But that's pretty much all it has going for it. An her ult doesn't work like her old one. People say you can just use it like you did where you try to delete so and so people from the fight. But you can't do that reliably either. It has a long channel time, is pretty obvious, and can even miss since it's basically just a ranged skillshot that anyone can see coming from a mile away, if the hammer wind up wasn't obvious enough. It doesn't enhance Poppy's damage power like it did before, so you have just given us a new champ that isn't even Poppy anymore. So you're telling me my five years of experience has just been tossed down the drain. That I learned this champ for nothing. You all took your sweet time with this rework because you knew it Poppy was a delicate thing to touch considering that the minority that played her was very adamant about keeping her playstyle. But instead of consulting to the people who played her, you just did a rework meant to appease the majority who didn't even play her. You didn't try to preserve her identity in anyway both gameplay and personality wise, and you didn't give respect to those who had come to learn it for years and years. It feels like the old Karma rework, where you guys basically gutted her kit entirely and gave her something new. At least the Soraka rework still has her identity, abeit Im sure there was a lot people angry at taking away her abilities like giving armor and mana to her allies, and taking away her mr-reducing starcall.

So all I can say is that I am disappointed that Riot did not take into consideration the feelings of vets with the character. I bought her skins and her for a specific reason, and now that reason is gone. Thank you for deleting a champion I practiced so hard to learn.