Un-nerf Poppy

washed up teemo·5/23/2014, 12:52:45 PM·2 votes·629 views

Poppy has been nerfed multiple patches. She has been given a few nice things, but overall, the feeling is nerfed. And she was never even that godly OP. Just bad players being bad. She has always been high risk, high reward. And she punished bad players.

But her counter is flash. She is easily kited. For the of the game she is a 1v1 champion, which means she has a worthless ult for most of the game. Her vs Jax 1v1 at level 6 is a slaughter. She doesn't even stand a chance. And before that she's not much better. Same can be said for her vs renek, kayle, elise, jayce, lee, and even freaking Teemo. She is easily ganked. She is built to get behind. The only thing she ever did well was punish players that walked into her wall stun, else wise there has always been a champion better at her job than she is (namely Jax). Quite literally the only thing she ever had going for her was late game OP hits...and that's IF she could hit people. And she always picks the support to target for her ult. And who is most likely to have exhaust? YERP, the support.

So:

-Late game champion that is countered by flash.

-Useless ult for most of the game; most likely to be negated by exhaust, as well.

-Only good when she is able to take advantage of positional opportunities she creates for herself (or that bad players give her).

So just...why? Plz someone, for the love of god, why nerfs? And this was before the recent, more OP champs and reworks have been introduced.

Recommendation: Keep buffs, get rid of nerfs. Just see what happens, and ask "Is this really OP...or is this Poppy, this champion built to lose, just makin' moves like a boss?"

How often do you see a good Poppy?

4 Comments

NoticesKouhai5/23/2014, 1:38:32 PM3 votes

If Poppy is buffed then she'll be OP because of her ult.

Hinro Honato5/23/2014, 1:43:07 PM3 votes

Poppy is incredibly broken. I love poppy and she is fun to play but if you can't see her strengths you're missing quite a bit.

Level one can be pretty weak but at level two she is chunking half the enemies life. When she gets a sheen you are easily taking 2/3 of their life with one burst. At level six she can kill anyone under a tower without taking a scratch. You either get destroyed under tower or run and lose your tower.

Have you ever tried playing her as a support? She shines down there. One charge hammer combo and you just need to stand behind the minion wave and the adc is zoned until the jungle starts making s'mores down there.

Speaking of jungle she does great in there also. Haven't used her there in a few patches and I don't see a feral flare making her weaker. She can gank very well if you get your positioning right.

I love poppy but she is far to strong. I'm just glad people don't use her or know how to.

This is anecdotal but here is my greatest moment to show how strong poppy is. I was playing jungle poppy and things were going decently. Got three ganks or so but nothing grand. About 25 minutes into the game my adc and mid get caught out stealing the enemy blue by the entire enemy team/ They had vayne, malz, elise, and two others I can't recall chasing kat mid and cait, I'm at bot lane so I pop w and come rushing to try and help. I get close enough and kat jumps out on me and cait nets. Both of them are nearly dead and to save them I charge into their group. Completely surrounded. I could now even see poppy at this point. Pop my ult on vayneas their entire team is after me. All of their cooldowns got blown on me while I'm just swinging my hammer using q and tiamat active as soon as available. Ult drops and barrier goes up, barrier drops and heal goes off. More than ten seconds tanking the entire enemy team and killing malz and vayne and hurting the rest significantly. I died but it was incredibly worth it.

I'm complete garbage at this game and I could pull off something amazing, What could a challenger do with her?

ChaosThief5/23/2014, 2:45:07 PM2 votes

Poppy will take one swing with her hammer and you've lost half your health.

AS A FULL TANK.

AbiwonKenabi5/23/2014, 4:20:11 PM1 votes

She's a difficult champion to balance. Her ult and her passive make her extremely difficult to kill even if she builds mostly damage. Sure she has a weak early game but saying she is bad because of that is like saying Vayne or Jax are bad because of their weak early game--obviously not since their late game is probably the best in the game. Poppy is similar, but doesn't have nearly as much counterplay.

I have seen Morello talk about reworking her, mostly likely scrapping her ult and definitely keeping her charge. Nothing solid yet obviously.