Talk:Poppy/@comment-217.23.233.106-20130201104410

There's a lot of talk about AD Poppy, but why not AD assassin?

Beserker's Greaves, Trinity Force, Bloodthirster, Phantom Dancers, Infinity Edge, then an item of your choice. This makes her an AD assassin due to her Q and Trinity proccing on one hit, as well as autoattacks from BT and PD allowing her to deal consistent damage. With her passive and ultimate, she is extremely effective late game.

Alternatively, you can build her bruiser/offtank. Mercury Treads, Iceborn Gauntlet, Frozen Mallet, then damage and defense items of your choice. This allows her to have more survivability with little health (2000-2500 health makes her decently tanky as well as her passive), as well as utility from her Frozen Mallet and Iceborn Gauntlet. Iceborn Gauntlet also lets her keep some of her burst on her Q.

Finally, (in theory) she can counter Darius relatively well. While his DoT will still affect her quite badly, this burst and ultimate is REDUCED BY 50%. His ultimate is therefore much weaker on her, and along with a gan kand her ultimate, she can take him on quite well.

tl;dr, She's not unviable, and can counter Darius.