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Poppy Tanky/AP
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I usally do Tanky/AD Poppy, or full out AP Poppy :o
Trin force is better for AD Poppy, and LB is better for AP Poppy, you are building AP Poppy, why are people questioning you getting LB?
I'll have to try this out, and see how it goes, then I'll vote :P
A tip from me though, is that sometimes you shouldn't ult the one you want to kill, you should ult the least dangerous person on their team, then run around killing everything else while you're invincible. Though if theres one taget you need down FAST ult him and kill :P
And yeh I agree, Poppy's single target nuke is just ridiculous. A little while ago, I built full ap, and was finished it. Build was:
Sorcs shoes, Rabadons, Lich Bane, Zhonya's Ring, Abyssal Scept, and Void Staff.
Anyway, I was near death and Twitch ambushed me, and was about to kill me. Just for fun I decided to Q him, and after it he had less than 20 health left. Just from Q and LB proc. He was full health, and I didn't have my ult on or anything, and it did like 1800 damage, but then I died, cause I didn't do my full nuke, cause I thought I was dead.
TL/DR, W.R.E.Q. wrecks your opponent (get it?) even if you have sub-200 health, and he's full. If he's squish, and near a wall, don't give up, cause you can kill him :P
Sheen. I know what you're thinking, we're on track to build a Trinity Force, not so, turn the
Zeal into a Phantom Dancer, the Hextech Revolver into the Hextech Gunblade, and then the Sheen into Lich Bane. You will be able to feel the difference and see it. I always recommend everyone, when puzzled by items and benefits, take 3 games, build the way you would normally build, then take 3 games, follow a suggested build, then evaluate what you liked and disliked about both games, you never know, you may be able to pick something apart, and take items that you are currently building with, and modify it w/ items someone else suggested, and make an even better build then you already have for yourself. The one thing that is important that everyone forgets, and item is only as good as it suits your needs for how you are going to play, so if you play a way that makes an item ineffective, then you always want to switch items out. Now that being said, don't ever build a Trinity Force and a Lich Bane together, it is too expensive, and they cancel each other out on their benefits. One thing I like to suggest to, whenever I find someone that likes Trinity Force, use Miss Fortune, and build Trinity Force really early, it makes her insanely fun to play! There are a few characters that Trinity Force is a must on, but a lot of times because of the cost of it for one single item, I find other ways or other items to get my benefit, I like to keep my average for a build to 2k gold per item, it's very rare where you play a game and you'll make 20k gold before the game is over, so always keep in mind, that if you're build exceeds 20k gold, you most likely won't get to make it. Just something to be mindful of.
Frozen Heart gives you all the armor that you need to survive anything, and the importance of
Frozen Heart is that it lowers your cooldowns so that you can use your abilities quicker, and it gives you a much needed Mana Pool, which you desperately need on Poppy, this Mana Pool will all but resolve your Mana issues for the game, only in very long extensive team fights, will you run out, and surely someone on your team has a Clarity at that point. My in game name is Malieus, if you want feel free to add me, and I will play a few games w/ you, showing you how I play Poppy and the items I use, and then playing a couple w/ you supporting you and assisting you while you play Poppy. I'm not sure when your normal game time is, but if you can let me know, we can figure it out, I'm on and off several times through out the day, but I love having fun, and I love helping peeps, so feel free to come join me in game. We will have a good time! I hope this helps.
So what do you recommend for a player to do for gaining gold? It would strengthen your guide (unless I missed it which I could have easily done!) if you added this in from your gaming experience. Obtaining gold is the #1 question/issue that I have come across in my research.
Question: Why two armor items in a row? Would not a AP weapon be more logical following Thornmail especially by the time you get to Frozen Heart the laning phase is over? I am not criticizing just trying to understand the sequence.
Thanks and I will try out your build.