r/PoppyMains

I've been picking up Poppy Top lane, mainly when I have counterpick, and I find myself almost never building Sundered Sky or Spirit Visage, even though they're her most popular items.

For starters, early game it feels really bad to recall with 1150g and buy a Tunneler, when it feels like there are so many better components I could buy for the same or similar gold.

Warden's Mail is 150g cheaper and makes you pretty much unkillable early against an AD Top + AD Jungle. For 50g more I can get full Plated Steelcaps, or I could pick up Bramblevest and Boots for 50g less. Spectre's Cowl for AP matchups means you can shrug them off and basically farm in peace.

Secondly, Poppy is really good with resistances. Gaining up to 24% additional Armour and MR from her W passive is fantastic. So why wouldn't I build for this? Building Sundered Sky into Fimbulwinter into Spirit Visage means that at level 13, you have 115 armour and 105 Magic resistance, so you're getting roughly 27 bonus armour and 25 bonus MR max. Conversely, Unending Despair into Fimbulwinter into Kaenic Rookern gives you 165 armour and 135 MR, so you're already netting yourself an extra 39 armour and 32 MR.

Finally, Poppy is a tank, not a fighter. You're unfortunately not going to be able to split push and take every wave, every tower and really snowball an early game lead. Eventually, you're going to be grouping up with your team, conceding farm to your Mid or ADC and generally being lower resource than a carry Top laner like Riven or Jax would. So I'm looking to get a powerful 3 item core, and maybe squeeze in room for a powerful component like Bramblevest or Warden's Mail. I just don't feel like I can warrant delaying my big ticket resistance items to a 4th item that I might never get to.

So I guess what I'm asking is; sell me on Sundered Sky. Spirit Visage I can kind of get; it's very synergistic with both your kit and Fimbulwinter, but I find myself eschewing it for the increased resistances of something like Kaenic or even Force of Nature.

When do you build it? Is it matchup specific? Team comp specific? What makes you look at a game and say "This is a great Sundered Sky game"?

I swear the Mythic shop has gone through EVERY single possible Hextech skin and some appearing multiple times and Poppy still hasn’t appeared. I’ve already paid for the pass to get my mythic essence why the hell is it left to bloody chance if I can buy the skin with currency I’ve already spent money to get!

I’m praying this bs FOMO system gets scrapped with the big League update at the end of the year/start of next year. The randomness is so stupid if it even is random given that we have a steady supply of Lux/Cait skins and at least one K/da skin every rotation to keep riots big earners happy.

Rant over. Very sorry. Have a nice day

Aftershock
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bone plating
unflinching
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celerity
9 adaptive
9 adaptive
scaling hp.

I was considering swapping out 9 adaptive force for 2.5% ms because poppy is good with ms, and 5 ad doesn't seem like it'll make much of a difference. I go sorcery because I find poppy has bad mana issues and I dont often build any tear items on support unless necessary, so it helps a ton early and mid game.

Looking at high elo games, I see storm raiders played, I see hob played, and I also see dark harvest played. Anyone have any insight on strengths and weaknesses of these runes on poppy? I’ve tried all 3 and hob feels best to me but I’m fairly new to being a poppy main.

She's here once again

Seems like Yasuo's can counter any projectiles, including ults and Mel's diamond shield does as well. But with Poppy's W you have a CD of around 20 sec and you cannot even counter ults like malphite, vex or briar. It totally seems unfair.

How the hell you get a CD that is that long without possiblity to stop those ults??? When other champs can counter ults easily and walk around unnoticed

It seems to be an unfair treatment from riot. Either the CD and mana usage should be lower or the ability to block unstoppable dash should be possible. What's your vision?

Confirmed in the Dev Update, old Poppy will be coming to LoL Classic!

Hello all I want to otp poppy and I was wondering if there are any otp streamers?I want to play her mainly top!!!

Ty all

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3nv2g8/poppy_guide_heres_how_to_really_enjoy_her_before/
I'm a classic poppy enjoyer and this was my favorite play style of her. she should be released in later patches in classic, either before or after mord; not sure. but i figured i would repost this old guide i used to use back in the day right before she was reworked so when she does come back we can go right to being a menace on the rift :)

Looking to see if I'm a dunce for leaving it for last - afraid I may be sleeping on its value. Last game I had solid reason to build Frozen Heart and I'm sure that could be a factor. How impactful is it vs working on other late items?