[11.23] Basic Poppy Guide (Top/Jungle/Support)
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Choose Champion Build:
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TOP
![LoL Champion: Poppy]()
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JUNGLE
![LoL Champion: Poppy]()
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SUPPORT
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Recommended Items
Runes: Inspiration Secondary
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Resolve
Inspiration
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
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Teleport
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Teleport
Items
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Main Build
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Final Item Choices
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Full Build Examples
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Threats & Synergies
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Darius
Veigar
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Veigar
OVERVIEW
TOP
TOPPoppy Top is an exceptionally effective counterpick against most champions that rely on a dash as a core part of their kit or to engage. She is able to completely nullify many champions with her Steadfast Presence and she is so tanky, most champions will have difficulty putting a dent into her. A very safe pick in lane. |
JUNGLE JUNGLEPoppy Jungle focuses on ganking overextended lanes, easily able to cut off escape paths and prevent champions who are usually able to retreat to tower such as Yasuo from getting away without wasting a Flash. Her ganks aren't amazing, but she has an effective speed boost in her kit as well. |
SUPPORT SUPPORTSupport Poppy focuses on helping her ADC get kills by punishing bad positioning and overextended enemies extremely hard. She is also exceptionally effective on many engage supports such as Rakan who will be unable to do anything relevant in lane with your presence. |
Overview: Pros/Cons
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PROS
+ Extremely Tanky
+ Percent Health Damage + Flexible Ultimate + Anti-Dash + 2-Second Stun + Fast Poppy is a very flexible champion able to be played top, jungle, and support. She's not particularly popular meaning it is unlikely someone else will take her from you nor will she be banned. She is extremely effective against certain champions and is also useful from behind. She has CC, utility, and surprisingly good damage. Her Ult is also very flexible, able to be used as a simple AOE knock up (90% of the time) or to eject a dangerous target from a fight. |
CONS
- Not As Useful vs. Immobile Teams
- Easy to Mess Up - Bad against Good Positioning - Shut Down by Lots of CC - Usually Reliant on Teammates for Damage/Kills Poppy's niche is her anti-dashing W. When not fighting teams that have dashes, Poppy essentially becomes any sort of tanky engager kind of like Alistar, but more difficult to use. It's also really easy to screw up your Heroic Charge (through helping an enemy get away if you fail to pin them or they change their positioning just slightly) and potentially your Keeper's Verdict (it takes a split second decision as to whether use it as a knock up or to ult an important target away). She is fairly easy otherwise.
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Overview: Summoners
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| Flash: Bring this. You can potentially pull off some clutch flash-pins and various other things. Bring. This. |
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Teleport: The Toplane Teleport is pretty standard. Teleport is flexible in the sense that you can use it to TP back to lane, or, even better, to make a play somewhere else on the map. TPing to punish an overextending lane or to help with an objective is crucial. |
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Smite: If you're playing jungle, you will need this. Otherwise, you're basically not playing jungle. |
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Ignite: Makes the only Heroic Charge engage you get in lane to be the only one you need. Exhaust is also okay and Heal can be used if your ADC wants to bring something else. |
RUNES
In general, Poppy's Keystone choices want to focus on 1. Making her fast enough to roam the map and position for a pin and 2. Making her tanky enough to survive her engages and act as a very tough roadblock for her enemies.
Runes: Top (Somewhat Outdated)
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RESOLVE
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Resolve tree because there are many runes that enchance Poppy's survivability. Grasp of the Undying is ideal for Poppy Top in order to aid in her trades, improve her sustain, and help her scale just a little bit more. Easy for you to trigger and procs off of Iron Ambassador meaning you can essentially get a free proc whenever you have Iron Ambassador up, increasing your max health, healing you, and doing additional damage. Poppy usually does not benefit from extended trades making Conqueror not as good but still usable. Grasp, overall is better and fits into Poppy's potential to poke and take short, bursty trades.
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Shield Bash has perfect synergy with your passive Iron Ambassador, increasing your tankiness and damage even further. This adds to your trades in noticeable ways. Demolish is a fair rune as well if you wish to destroy towers whereas Font of Life usually has reduced benefits as a solo-laner.
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Conditioning or Bone Plating. Poppy already has additional armor/MR making Conditioning provide even more on top of that though Bone Plating is much more useful for opponents who will likely burst you.
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Overgrowth is ideal for late game in order to add to your bulkiness. Unflinching is also a good choice for
Tenacity
whereas the additional healing/shielding with Revitalize doesn't end up being much over the course of a game though it is still a viable option.
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Biscuit Delivery is a strong choice for top lane sustain and pairs nicely with Time Warp Tonic, allowing you to stay in lane for longer. Time Warp Tonic is a must bring with Corrupting Potion as it provides a noticeable burst in healing and movement speed, helping your early game trades.
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Runes: Jungle (Somewhat Outdated)
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Domination tree because it gives the best options for Poppy to dish out the most damage as fast as possible. The burst this tree provides is ideal for Poppy's ganks in order to obtain kills and additional damage. Electrocute is the ideal keystone here as it is super easy to trigger with Heroic Charge as the initial hit and the pin count as two abilities, meaning only a single auto or use of your Hammer Shock will trigger it. Ideal for bursting down a CCed target during a gank with the help of your laner and is the most applicable as a jungler. Dark Harvest can work to help your scaling since, with each successful gank, it makes your burst stronger and stronger. Hail of Blades is best if you cannot find a pin.
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Cheap Shot triggers extra true damage on attacks after you CC a target which is perfect for Poppy's full combo or after any enemy he pins or after application of his Hammer Shock. The damage it adds is easily >1000 over the course of a game. Taste of Blood is okay for sustain, but the healing overall is pretty pathetic for a jungler and Poppy doesn't really need the lethality from sudden impact.
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Eyeball Collection. Ghost Poro and Zombie Ward both provide just as much AF as Eyeball Collection but have some additional and useful utility to them. If you plan on swapping your trinket to Oracle Lens early on, then it's better if you use Zombie Ward over Ghost Poro.
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Relentless Hunter is easily best. In order to reach fights, escape enemies chasing you, rotate from one side of the map to another, have more effective ganks, Relentless Hunter is easily the best. You won't be able to do anything if you don't have the movement speed to get anywhere.
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Nimbus Cloak is ideal for Jungle Poppy's combo involving smite as it is easy to trigger and helps position for a pin. Celerity is additional movement that stacks with a lot you have, including Relentless Hunter, boots, other movements items you may purchase, Nimbus Cloak, etc. Waterwalking is a strong alternate choice however.
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Runes: Support (Somewhat Outdated)
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RESOLVE
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Resolve tree because there are many runes that enchance Poppy's survivability. Aftershock is, in most cases, the best rune for Poppy support simply due to the extra resistances being incredibly important when there are two potential people who can be shooting at you (even if one of them is currently stunned) and scaling well off of Poppy's additional defensive stats. Pretty standard for tanky engage supports. If you choose Poppy into a double ranged matchup, however, then Guardian may be better as it becomes substantially more difficult for you to find an engage while still being healthy against too much poke. In general, however, these matchups are terrible for Poppy and she should not be chosen for them.
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Font of Life is a great rune for supports as it enables your CC to heal your allies. Makes your all-ins with your ADC healthier and safer, making you more likely to win the 2v2.
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Second Wind is best against ranged matchups with lots of poke, such as a Zyra or a Karma as you can't engage if you are nearly dead. Against melee supports, Bone Plating will likely be the better choice.
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Unflinching is great due to providing you additional
Tenacity
in order to brute force your way to the enemy though Revitalize may be good, especially if you have Guardian or Redemption. Overgrowth is also okay to add to your bulkiness.
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Cheap Shot triggers extra true damage on attacks after you CC a target which is perfect for Poppy's full combo or after any enemy he pins or after application of his Hammer Shock. Makes her all-ins that much better. Relentless Hunter is an amazing rune for supports, especially those who like to roam and really need movement speed. In order to reach fights, escape enemies chasing you, rotate from one side of the map to another, have more effective roams and all-ins, Relentless Hunter is easily the best. You won't be able to do anything if you don't have the movement speed to get anywhere.
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ABILITIES
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Iron Ambassador (Passive): Periodically makes your next auto atack ranged, deal additional magic damage, and throw out a buckler which falls onto the floor. She can pick up the buckler to gain a shield based off of her max health or she will automatically obtain the shield if her buckler kills her target but if your enemy steps on it, the buckler is destroyed. Focusing on picking up your shield during most trades will separate the good from the bad Poppys though sometimes the buckler will fall in a bad location. That being said, the Buckler has a tendency to drop near walls which may allow you to bait some bad positioning for a pin if an enemy tries to walk over your buckler. Focus on trading only when Iron Ambassador is available.
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Hammer Shock (Q): Poppy smashes a small area in front of her with her hammer, dealing additional damage based off the enemy' max health and slowing anyone in the area. It then detonates again, dealing the same damage. Can potentially do at the minimum 16% of the target's max health each use. Allows Poppy to do lots of damage while remaining tanky. |
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Steadfast Presence (W): Passively grants Poppy additional armor and magic resist. When activated, Poppy gains a burst of movement speed, also creating a large barrier around her. Any champion who attempts to dash within the area are knocked down, grounded, slowed, and dealt magic damage. This is what makes Poppy special. Completely nullifies most dashes and is fairly easy to time. Most dashes are very telegraphed. |
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Heroic Charge (E): Poppy charges at a target champion, minion, or monster, carrying them along. If, at any point during the charge, the target makes contact with terrain, they will be pinned, stunned, and dealt additional damage. Somewhat difficult to use if the enemy positions well but, if you pull it off, usually results in a ton of damage done. You can also use it to travel over walls by targeting enemies or monsters through walls. Only use Heroic Charge in one of the following scenarios:
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Keeper's Verdict (R): Poppy channels, charging up her hammer for a few seconds. Once released, Poppy emits a shockwave in a direction, launching enemies hit by the shockwave back a MASSIVE DISTANCE towards their base. If Poppy instead presses and releases the charge instantly, she knocks up enemies around her for 0.75 seconds. In most situations, you will be using her ult for the AOE knock up rather than sending them back to spawn. Exceptional for saving a teammate or disengaging however. |
Abilities: Making a Verdict
When should you utilize Keeper's Verdict as a Knock Up vs. an Eject?
In general, you want to eject enemies who you believe you cannot kill or deal with, such as a super fed Yasuo in the middle of a teamfight to kill his weaker allies first. In 95% of cases, however, your basic knock up is much more effective as, rarely, will there be an enemy you cannot kill considering your tankiness and CC with the help of your teammates. That being said, this ability can very easily save your or your teammate's lives.
Keeper's Verdict as a Knock Up vs. an Eject?|
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Yasuo in the middle of a teamfight to kill his weaker allies first. In 95% of cases, however, your basic knock up is much more effective as, rarely, will there be an enemy you cannot kill considering your tankiness and CC with the help of your teammates. That being said, this ability can very easily save your or your teammate's lives.
TIPS
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Top  Tips |
Jungle Tips |
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COMBOS
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Legend
- Basic Attack
- Player Moves/Repositions
- Enchanced Basic Attack (Iron Ambassador)
- Pick Up Iron Ambassador Buckler
- Her Q (Hammer Shock)
- Her W (Steadfast Presence)
- Steadfast Presence for Speed Boost
- Her E (Heroic Charge)
- Her E's Pin (Heroic Charge into Terrain)
- Her UNCHARGED R (Keeper's Verdict Knockup)
- Chilling Smite (The Summoner Spell)
- Nimbus Cloak (The Rune)
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Combos: General
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Combos: Jungle
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CONCLUSION
Poppy is fun and easy. Good luck.
tl;dr: Don't die.
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tl;dr: Don't die.
Thanks to @JHOIJHOI's exceptional guide on making guides which can be found here: Making A Guide
Moderne
Poppy Guide
[11.23] Basic Poppy Guide (Top/Jungle/Support)
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