User blog comment:Alonlah/Poppys viability in the current meta and her status in the PBE./@comment-6486964-20130816232528/@comment-5556439-20130817004544

Your partly right.

Its the fact that she is indentical to Ghostblade on why shes not popular.

Ghostblade is really strong, an does alot of great things, but doesnt specialize in any of those great things enough to be worthy of chosing over something else, that already specializes in one of those things.

In other words,

if you want AD; Bloodthirster

Crit; PD/SS/IE

Armor Pen; Last Whisper

and so on. Anything that Poppy does, half of her kit is going to be useless when she is doing it. SO, would you rather have a champ who only uses half of their potential or a champ that could use their MAX potential, in a SPECIALIZED role.