I just don't seem to be able to make her work, heck I even suck at Malphite, even though I already play tanks like 
and 
I can't seem to play her efficiently.
So, is anyone able to help me out in learning to play the small Yordle.
At least she's got a good taste in weaponry (
approves)
Teémò1 votes
[slayer-jinx-wink] She does her combo and gets out and her ult pushes people away so buying something like cinderhulk doesn't really pay off 
Though This and 
would be good on her
MunchCrunchLunch1 votespositon so you smash people into a wall in lane. also every time your shield is up. go for a trade. E and Q.
but the most important thing is to position yourself when you cs to smash people into a wall and chunk them.
triforce is good on her. or iceborn.
basically you want to stand on top of minion waves near the bush. and smash the laner into the wall and land a decent combo.
Power Of Syndra1 votesMalicious Metal, you should really, really draw a Morde and Syndra thrashing their enemies together! <3
JayHog19921 votes(Waits for AbsorbantTNT to show up.)
Zero Skill Tank1 votesPoppy has poor initiation, so it's best to either have poke comp with her, and peel, or to have other initiator.
Bully the shit out of enemy laner. If you can't bully them, ask for gank, and you will be able to bully them after that. Poppy is quite good at setting up a gank, even if you can wallslam, you can cancel enemy escape ability.
If you can't wallslam, use E to break autos, you should still win a trade against most tops.
Best combo is to wallslam someone with you passive up, follow with Q and buckler toss, and grab your buckler when they are stunned.
Get at least one item that will allow you to push faster, be it glove or sunfire cape, or you will be too little of a tower threat.
IGotScuttleCrabs1 votesStand near minion waves so you can get a full Q off when they try to last hit.
If they push you to tower you can
Try to avoid ult'ing them if they get turret agro as they go invulnerable and drop agro
Laugh manically when they pick 
because your W cock blocks them so hard
You can use E to start IBG passive and Passive to proc it to chase someone
Your passive does good damage in trades but you can also use it to finish a minion for the 
ted shield before engaging
Many more but i'm about to get in game. Source: I use to play a ton of Poppy and my brother is a Diamond Poppy main for like 4 years now.
And when in doubt, remember you can't spell Poppy without OP
Ralanr1 votesAgainst mobile targets I usually use W directly after slamming them against the wall. Their muscle memory usually fucks them over.
Your elo might not fail at that though.
kasfas1 votesOne thing I love doing is waiting for their dash animation to be almost done, then I w to ensure they are ccd for as long as possible. Say in the case of vi who has no ult, I would wait until the dash almost hit me or my ally and THEN w to make them unable to input action commands for the longest time possible.
And it's also true that the more aware your opponents are of you, the less they fall for dashing away all at once, so it's best to let them try to escape and THEN w to, again, keep them ccd as long as possible.
(On an unrelated note, I don't appreciate you telling me to shut up a while back.)
Ralanr1 votesSorry if I did. I'm usually in an irritable mood when I get outright offensive to people on the boards and try to avoid that.
I don't remember the instance, but I apologize all the same and hope we can move on.
kasfas1 votesIt wasn't exactly in those words, but that was what was implied.
Something about ekko, but this isn't the time to talk about it.
kasfas1 votesIt depends on what your problems are. Laning or grouping? Trades and csing or peeling and teamfighting?
In lane you just play safely until you get your first item. Depending on your opponent and your play style, you want to rush one of the following items: 
,
,
, or 
. After that you should be able to 1v1 your opponent in extended fights with your q, passive and grasp.
When it comes to wave management, I prefer to get a sun fire whenever I can so that I don't get pushed into tower so easily (your early wave clear is pretty bad). After two components you shouldn't be able to die to trades if you properly manage your shield.
Once you start grouping, you should be peeling for your back line above engaging; if you win a fight, you are good at re-engaging but in the end you shouldn't go for picks unless you know your team can follow up.
Some final things on poppy:
1.Your q is your trading tool. Landing it is imperative to winning trades. 2.You can charge grasp with sunfire in a minion wave to get some bonus harass on your opponent from shield as well as a heal. 3. If you land an e q p combo, you almost always want to go for the shield before they can retaliate to negate the majority of their trade. 4. Your ult does about 150 damage to opponents when you first rank it, so make sure you keep track of how much health they have under tower. You can combo them onto their tower and ult to finish them. 5. Sometimes, an instant ult is just as effective if not more effective than a charged one. Don't bother trying to always use it when it's charged. 6. If you lose lane, just keep building tank and be a big disruptor to the enemy engage.
If there were one thing I think you might have a problem with is being too aggressive. All the champions you listed tend to like being near the front soaking damage and disrupting the backline. Poppy wants to stay near her backline more often than her enemies, so be an anti-aggressor and peel as hard as you can.
Ralanr1 votesWould you consider banshee better on Poppy? I ask because I've felt decent success with it because it really bumps up her MR due to her W and she doesn't have any sustain outside of items or masteries to benefit from the effect of Visage.
kasfas1 votesIn certain scenarios yes, but the health and regen from visage is just better overall. Remember too, you want to get corrupting pot early and that also increases its healing. Also, because of her passive, you can get enough mr from just it and mercs treads to deal with most magic damage.
If the enemy is packing a lot of hard and/or long range cc, it's pretty good, but as a rush item it's not really the best unless you're fighting a Lux toplane.
Once again: against heavy magic damage, long range and / or hard cc it's a good item to pick up. Not a good rush item because health is a better stat to rush against more types of damage.
Tychusfindlay9191 votesStep 1, dont pick her into 
That's all I got.
kasfas1 votesI argue that. I've played poppy into Darius multiple times and beat him each one. It's all a matter of dodging his q blade.
You harass with shield and e him if he tries to q you, then run away with w to put it in most basic terms.
Also if he pulls you, q him so he can't get far enough away from you to get a heal from q, then bait him into walking next to a wall to e him onto and by that time your q should be back up. In this scenario you've done at least 14% his max hp, plus about 300 as well as put his only forced engagement tool on cooldown so you can farm with shield and q and he can't fight you.
pryda0221 votesI argue that. I've played poppy into Darius multiple times and beat him each one. It's all a matter of dodging his q blade.
You harass with shield and e him if he tries to q you, then run away with w to put it in most basic terms.
Also if he pulls you, q him so he can't get far enough away from you to get a heal from q, then bait him into walking next to a wall to e him onto and by that time your q should be back up. In this scenario you've done at least 14% his max hp, plus about 300 as well as put his only forced engagement tool on cooldown so you can farm with shield and q and he can't fight you.
If he grabs you post 6 with ult up and the lane is even your most likely dying if your not close to tower or able to ult him and run. Poppy always loses to Darius in extended trades unless he's dumb enough to let you put him into the wall which at a certain Elo doesn't happen very often
Tychusfindlay9191 votesI argue that. I've played poppy into Darius multiple times and beat him each one. It's all a matter of dodging his q blade.
You harass with shield and e him if he tries to q you, then run away with w to put it in most basic terms.
Also if he pulls you, q him so he can't get far enough away from you to get a heal from q, then bait him into walking next to a wall to e him onto and by that time your q should be back up. In this scenario you've done at least 14% his max hp, plus about 300 as well as put his only forced engagement tool on cooldown so you can farm with shield and q and he can't fight you.
Ok so we'll think through this.
He uses Q and you use E to counter.
He's immediately going to counter with AA > W (two stacks). You use your q to slow him and you're left with you W off cooldown. You say "bait him near a wall" why would darius go near a wall? He can simply stay in the middle of the lane and pull you into the middle of the lane when he wants to use his E.
"Youve done at least 14% max hp plus about 300"
You're not taking into account base armor you tool. And poppy has no innate armor pen (darius does), and once again, darius has no reason to be baited near a wall like a moron when he has a tool to bring you towards the middle of the lane to him.
There's a reason why the darius main community recognizes poppy as one of his easier matchups (hell he can effortlessly cancel her ult channel with apprehend and his noxian guillotine execute largely nullifies the W low HP passive). I'm too lazy to check your elo, but I doubt you're facing competent darii if you truly think picking poppy into darius is logical and even preferable. You beat bad darii I guess.
Darius counters every tank in the game in dueling (some a little less than others), and poppy is no exception.
kasfas1 votesI'm going to clarify something so I'm not totally misunderstood. Darius DOES counter poppy, and you shouldn't be put into a position where you're fighting him with poppy anyway. HOWEVER, if put into a position where you need to fight him in lane you will be fine if you can dodge his q.
DONT TRY TO GET INTO AN EXTENDED FIGHT WITH DARIUS. You will die in extended trades, but if you can go in and out you can deal with a Darius in lane as poppy. Don't just e him when he q's. Don't just run when he w's. Evaluate each case differently, but if you've played enough poppy you can survive a Darius lane.
My point however on dodging his q still stands. No matter what if you avoid his q blade you won't be the loser. You don't need to stun him against walls, you don't need to deal damage to him, you just need to get him off you and keep farming.
Respect his area of control and don't let him get a free auto off in his combo.
Pull into slow is ideal for you, then you just e into him when he q's and q your path as you run away.
Once again, THIS IS A HARD MATCHUP. DON'T fight him if you can avoid it. Just survive the lane by avoiding his q blade and not confronting him. You WILL make his life hell in team fights and win your team the game.
TheHurricaneGamr1 votesHey! So, I happen to play a good bit of Poppy (Over 100k mastery with mastery Level 7) and have been playing her since the day of her re-release.
So, in terms of damage, the lane phase is your strongest point in the game. You can bully many melees and ranged opponents in some cases, somewhat like a 
. When going up for CS, try and zone the enemy opponent from one of your creeps with you Q when they go for a last hit. At the best, they take about 14% of their health in damage, plus the base damage. The worst thing that happens is that they loose the creep. In an AD matchup, get for the waveclear and damage it grants. In an AP matchup (or where the enemy has magic damage) get a if you are having problems. If you think that you can get the in an AP matchup, go for it, as it is a better first item.
The mid-game is where Poppy starts scaling as more of a tanky frontline. If you were able to get a lead in the lane phase (3/0/1 or something like that), grap a 
instead of an . I never really run out of mana, and I think that is just a bad item on Poppy since Iceborn is a luxury item on Poppy, and why not spend 500 more gold for better damage and ARMOR SHRED for THE ENTIRE TEAM. All of you significant damaging abilities scale with AD, CDR is VERY good on Poppy, and it gives health. In teamfights, either peel for the carries or look to get the fed back liner into a wall. The combo is: E-Q-Passive-AA-R to get the most damage off. If they are not dead, then they almost will be. When peeling for your backline, either ult the damage threats away or use the slow from your Q or the displacement from your E. W also stops dashes, so keep that in mind when the enemy has a fed 
. When looking for picks, use the combo I described. If you want to create a pick, try and line up your ult to hit back one of the members of the ememy team, but let the other one or two members stay. The ult will also knock back multiple members if they are clumped up near the first member hit, so also keep that in mind. You can also REALLY mess up your team if this is used incorrectly, so refrain from knocking back members just because your ult is off cooldown.
Late game is much like mid-game, and your ult is good for knocking back people at drag and baron, as enemies are usually clumped up at those areas. Just try to keep your back line alive while killing theirs.
This is my typical build: 
and 
or 
.
My skill max is: Q>E>W, and a point in R whenever I can.
You can also look up TheHurricaneGamr on LolKing to see what I do.
P.S. Really glad to see you starting to pick up Poppy and I hope you stick with her.
