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I am a top lane main that knows almost every tank top laner. I picked up poppy pretty early and I still use her for a counter pick. I made a few guides in the past about other tank champs that aren't well known like Shen

Anyway, Poppy is a great champion for SoloQ because she can go well with any team comp. She deals alot of damage and soaks up some as well. The only downside is that she gets countered by conqueror champions like Fiora, Renekton and darius. Otherwise, she is a great champ.

Pros

Great Counterpick
Early game monster
Tank
Peel for adcs
Cant escape poppy.
CC bot

Cons

No great escape
Her damage falls off
All in or nothing
Not good in meta
Skirmishes are not good for her

Sunfire capeGreat tank stats and waveclear. Provides a bit of damage with cc.
Iceborn Gauntlet More cc, tank stats and mana.
Dead Mans Plate Speed, damage and tank stats. The passive can even provide cc.
Spirit Visage Sustain and a great item combined with grasp.

Passive This item gives you an empowered auto that gives you a direct shield if the target dies. Use this to farm, poke, or even outplay the enemies.

Q Use your Q to clear the backline or minions that are slightly out of your reach.

E Now, you can engage onto an enemy for some damage and E to a close minion for some cheap damage. Make sure the minions are around you.

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Poppy's Passive essentially is an empowered auto that drops a shield on the ground that enemies can destroy.

Tips: Use this ranged passive to get some cheap grasp procs. Use this on a low hp minion to get a shield when you're low on hp to outplay the enemies. Even more, this can bait out the enemies to step on the shield.





Your Q is your main source of damage. It slows the enemies so you can combo in some grasp auto attacks for some easy damage.

Tips:Combo this with your passive to chunk out the enemies HP
Max this ability.



This ability is mainly for catching enemies out or for disengaging a fight.

Tips: Great counter-engage against champions like renekton or fiora. Use this after you use your Q to make sure the enemies cant escape you damage.



This deals a low amount of damage, but if it hits terrain, it stuns and deals a bit more damage.

Tips:Use this when the enemies are close to terrain to combo them to death. Great when you have a vayne on your team.



This is great for saving your team.

Tips:You can tap this ability for a 1 second knockback that doesn't YEETthem away.


A great combo you can do is;Auto-E-Q-R(tap)-W. This can deal about 500 damage based your items and level.

Lane Phase
As poppy, you don't have any 100-0 combos, so you want to use your passive as much as possible to poke the enemies. A great way to poke is to save your grasp proc for your passive so you deal a lot of damage.

In hard match ups, like Darius or rumble, you want to stay by the caster minions and try not to take unnecessary damage. If the lane gets too hard, just ask your jungle for a gank. If he wont gank you, its fine. Laning phase doesn't last forever.

Teamfights
If you lock-down the carries in the back so their fight is useless.
If they have an Ezreal or Tristana who can slip out easily, just try to poke their front line.