Hey, I was wondering what you though about building blade of the ruined king on poppy, as it adds more percent health damage and more magic damage (meaning no resistances affect you all that much) Just a thought, thanks for the guide

I think if you went SotSW and later went for Blade of the Ruined King, it would be kind of like an uber-Hextech Gunblade. How can you say no to that?

[/code]Amazing guide!! One of my favorite on MobaFire! I would upvote it multiple times if I could.
Taking 4 different builds and putting them into one well written guide? Well played sir. :)

My only comment/question is what your opinion is on taking Wriggles Lantern over Spirit of the Spectral Wraith? I think that SotSW has better passives, (Manna regen, 25% damage to monsters, CD on Smite, etc) but it also costs 400g more. Wriggles also grants a ward which has a rather long CD but is still quite useful I have found especially when warding an early dragon. I also tend to like the extra AD on Wriggles especially because I build AD Poppy when I jungle versus AP on SotSW.

Thanks once again for a great guide!! :)

I notice you put out a call for other people's Poppy builds. I definitely have a few differences from the items you discussed so thoroughly and so well.

-- Shurelya's Battlesong: I've stayed away from this item ever since the global regen nerfs. (I.e. when it got its health regen cut from 30 to 10 hp5 and mana from 15 to 10, IIRC.) Although the active is lovely, and the health and CDR are nice, I just don't see how it's worth putting 1500 into an upgrade of Philo when I can use that plus the money from its sale instead on something else. I wouldn't criticize anyone who liked this item on Poppy even so, but I do question the unfettered praise you heaped on it :-P
-- Athene's Unholy Grail: On a related note, I like to spam a lot as Poppy. Part of the reason I don't like Shurelya is that by midgame the mana regen is totally inadequate to support the kind of mindless spamming I want to be able to do. So instead of shooting for an item that has some mana regen like Shurelya, I want an item that has tons of it, like Chalice of Harmony and its upgrades (the other being Mikael). I almost always go this route rather than Tear of the Goddess because of the magic resist and the utility of the CDR/heal.
-- Spirit Visage: I'm honestly quite surprised you didn't mention this item while discussing magic resist items. It's more purely defensive than the likes of Abyssal or Malmortius, but it does still give CDR, and stronger defense due to the health as well as (higher) magic resist. It also improves Hextech Gunblade's sustain, I believe.
-- Warmog's Armor, especially in combination with Frozen Heart to create what is essentially a Randuin's Omen on steroids. I consider this duo when facing a pretty AD heavy team -- anything less than lopsided AD means Randuin is the way to go IMO. When I do get Frozen Heart, though, I consider not getting Athene's because of the added mana pool Frozen provides. I also rush Warmog's when versus Olaf.

You put out a call for other people's Poppy builds that are different from what you put on the guide. Here's one:

Mercury's Treads
Trinity Force
Hextech Gunblade
Randuin's Omen
Spirit Visage
Athene's Unholy Grail
High armor, high magic res, high health, and maxed CDR and the mana regen to spam with it, while still having good damage! A less defensive build might be Malmortius instead of Spirit Visage, skipping Randuin AND Spirit Vis and substituting Warmog's for the both of them (freeing a slot for more damage), etc.

Mercury's Treads
Trinity Force
Hextech Gunblade
Warmog's Armor
Mikael's Blessing
Blade of the Ruined King
BotRK may seem redundant, but the active is if anything even better than Hextech's and the extra AS certainly does no harm, not to mention the lifesteal and modest AD. I'd take this over Infinity Edge any day. But I'll admit I haven't crunched the numbers or even done much field testing. As for Mikael's, the heal combined with Warmog's will be pretty large. (I've actually run tank-Poppy with Warmog, Randuin, Spirit Vis, and Mikael's, (along with Merc Treads and HexBlade,) and let me tell you the heal saved lives and got kills.)

Pretty good guide. I think there are more Season 3 items you could address/possibly use. I main Poppy and pretty much do a glass cannon build that works extremely well on her paired with a Guardian Angel.
Core Items = Trinity/Blade of Ruined King/Static Shiv

When you jungle you might want to think about upgrading your stone to the spirit of the lizard elder. It gives extra damage, cooldown reduction, does some additional true damage over time, and does not have a high cost since you already have part of it. Very useful when they flash over a wall barely surviving. Pairing that passive along with ignite they still end up dying.

Fighting with Poppy is extremely mobile and so the Static Shiv does a lot of proccing in fights as well as giving extra movespeed and attack speed.

Also, have you experimented with masteries much? Going up offense enough to add the Magic pen can be extremly useful. I find I do more magic damage than physical even though I do a pure physical glass cannon build. I stacked all of my other points in the defense tree similar to you. I then experimented with going up the defensive tree and only putting about 14 points into defense and it has been working a lot better than going purely defensive (I recently noticed that Zekent has begun doing a similar more offensive mastery tree.)

But thanks for your guide. I do feel I did learn a few things from it. Hopefully you do from me too!

@EnkerZan:

My computer hasn't been working either for a long time now so I'm gonna try to buy a new one. Thanks for reading my guide over and I hope that the build works for you.

Oh yeah, I'm sorry, the Masteries I actually take are the magic penetration Masteries. I'll be sure to change that soon. I go for 4 points in Blast and 1 point in the Magic Pen Mastery.

-DaCookieMonsta

P.S. I'm glad to see you guys like my guide! Makes me feel happy that I'm helping the League community. Fellow Poppy player to fellow Poppy player :)

This is a bad *** Poppy guide. I've played Poppy quite a bit, and I still learned a lot from this guide. A+ One question tho...Your jungle build has you taking Deadliness(x4) and Weapon Expertise (x1), but then in the description it says to take the MP Masteries. Which do you actually take?

I JUST saw your PM in my inbox. lol

Sorry for the late reply, I been without a PC for some time now, and just got back into the game. I will try out your build this week, so far the other top rated builds were a no go for me. :-/

This guide makes me wanna play poppy so bad right now!

Great guide, i love poppy,she is the first char i started playing in LoL,however cant avoid geting flamed every time i pick her.
You dont have mana problems with poppy as jungler?

Great guide! I'm one of the few who jungle, or even play poppy lol. And it's very solid! Good work!