Serious legitimate question. I don't get it. Is Poppy's kit that bad? Does Poppy not have a decent role to play? What are your opinions on the matter? Because I believe Poppy is one of the funniest, most fun, and decent champions out there:
She has terrible waveclear, mana problems, and weak early game. That said her passive and ult are among the best of the game and as soon as she gets triforce she is even scarier than jax. She's a monster in teamfights, but most people don't like the struggle of trying to farm and survive with her early game where she'll either get pushed under tower or zoned from cs
Ever heard the phrase, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" or "treat people how you want to be treated"?
Beats me. She's legitimately overpowered.
I used to play Poppy a lot. Despite how ridiculously hard I would carry, it eventually got boring because there is absolutely no mechanical or strategic complexity/finesse in playing Poppy. You are a walking ball of stats who becomes impossible to deal with once the game timer has reached a certain number. The only real decision point you make when playing Poppy is who you ult, and usually it's just the support or the person with the lowest damage (which is completely opposite of how the ult was intended to be used, it was originally designed to force 1v1's). Other than that you literally just charge at the opponent and hammer them to death with your broken ass damage, and your broken ass passive means you usually don't have to worry about them having a fair chance to fight back against you. There are no outplays when playing Poppy, and there is no way to outplay Poppy. Her gameplay is straightforward to a fault.
No she isnt bad at all, she is kinda strong - needs a rework
same reason people dont play singed
She's pretty much the only late game hypercarry that actually has a bad early game.
Terrible early game is really the only reason.
It's been a few weeks but I LOVE AP Poppy. Unfortunately, wave clear is quite possibly the slowest wave clear in the entire game, due to this you often end up being forced to farm under turret and let the enemy laner roam. Ooocasionally you get that odd guy who doesn't even know Poppy is a champ and constantly tries to fight you next to walls and you can just bully him out of lane, but aside from that, playing Poppy is like admitting you lost lane before minions spawn while holding up a giant sign that says "Soon." in tiny font. ... At least that's what it's like with AP Poppy.
I don't play AD Poppy, sorry. If I wanted to play an AD melee hyper carry I'd play Jax.
As for why I haven't played Poppy much lately, I'm just waiting for her rework. I just hope they A) Don't change Lollipoppy's splash art and B) Keep AP Poppy possible.
