Talk:Poppy/@comment-3974578-20110906024401/@comment-3358335-20110906192620

She does have a terrible laning phase, however you can make up for it. Recently I have been taking solo top lane as Poppy quite a bit. My reasoning is this: Whether it is 1 v2 or 2v2 Poppy is going to get denied in the Laning phase. Since I am used to functioning in that kind of environment, I might as well take the hit for the team and take the 1 v 2. Poppy is difficult to tower dive so she can hold the tower pretty well, and she is so slow as a farmer she has no problem drawing her opponents way in and opening them up for a gank.

1v1 Poppy can hold her own against most champs. But most of the time, the opposite is some other melee like Nasus, Garen, Wukong, Jax, Irelia, Xin, or Panth (too name a few popular one's) All characters that I can take on out the gate and harass, while still pulling them closer to my tower than I push.

Had two ranked games in which I was able to box out a Nasus and Wukong (respectively) completely from their minions. Absolutely obliterated a Panth, in a third, to the point in which he had to trade lanes with an Orianna after his third death. (By then I had 3 levels on Ori, so she wasn't scary either.)

The difficult one's though are the one's with Trist or Cait. Or any 1 v2 lane that contains blitz. But those are difficult no matter the champ you play.