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Poppy Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 7,670 gamesUpdated

51.2%win rate0.3%pick2.2%ban

Who counters Poppy

Every Top matchup for Poppy, ranked →

How to build Poppy

Plated Steelcaps→Sundered Sky→Thornmail→Fimbulwinter

Plated Steelcaps → Sundered Sky → Thornmail → Fimbulwinter

58.4% win rate 8% of games 339 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowthPrecisionLast StandPresence of Mind28% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport67%
Skills
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Hammer Shock
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Steadfast Presence
314151718
Heroic Charge
29101213
Keeper's Verdict
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Poppy build →
51.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.8% over 17,797 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.2% over 7,670 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.5%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
2.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.2%under 22 min
51.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
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5 / 6 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Sunfire Aegis→Jak'Sho, The Protean

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

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Win 25–30m
MASTER+
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4 / 3 / 12

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Sunfire Aegis→Thornmail→Winter's Approach

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

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Win 30–35m
MASTER+
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1 / 8 / 9

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Sunfire Aegis→Thornmail

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 53.1% win rate · 28% of games · 1,889 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowth
PrecisionLast StandPresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 48.7% win rate · 20% of games · 1,340 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashBone PlatingRevitalize
SorceryManaflow BandScorch
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport67%50.8%5,276 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite29%51.9%2,307 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps64%Mercury's Treads27%Boots of Swiftness5%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.7% win rate

Poppy build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Sundered Sky1st
  2. Fimbulwinter2nd
  3. Thornmail3rd
2% of games that reach a third item take this path56.5% win rate85 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Poppy →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 7,606 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 17,606 games
Item 26,615 games
Item 34,270 games
Item 41,676 games

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
63% · 52.1% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
27% · 52.1% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
5% · 51.7% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 39.8% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 44.4% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
1% · 53.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Fimbulwinter›Sundered Sky+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 51.0% win rate · 245 games
  2. Sundered Sky+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 38.7% win rate · 222 games
  3. Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 43.3% win rate · 208 games
  4. Sundered Sky›Fimbulwinter+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 52.4% win rate · 143 games
  5. Fimbulwinter›Sundered Sky+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 45.3% win rate · 106 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Poppy against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Poppy's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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