User blog comment:Deshiba/Solo Queue: Against the meta./@comment-3358335-20130628180130

I can strongly relate to this since I have been playing Poppy as a support for a while now. Admittedly, the first time I did it in recent history was because I was trolling the ranked solo queue. I'd just been support for three particlarly bad adc's in a row and in champ select I was being forced to play support, yet again. I chose Poppy which instantly turned the team rage to 11.

My reasoning was that I've played her enough that I can play her in any role. I've been successful with adc Poppy, Toppy, Jungle Poppy, and even Mid Poppy. Although I only recommend adc Poppy if you have a support that can really harass the enemy and set you up for both farm and kills, like Alistar, and I don't recommend Mid Poppy as well because anyone worth their salt will certainly use their range to harass and their CC to set up for a gank from jungle (Which is by far the greater danger) however, she does suprisingly well against burst mid's like Kassadin and Le blanc.

But I digress, So I rage picked Poppy as support because I figured that if my adc sucked I'd just selfishly take over the lane and make myself the carry. And if my adc didn't suck I'm already used to being denied creep kills so it wasn't a big deal to let my adc have them. My opposite on the other team was Leona. (Which was also a problem I was working on, my typical supports, soraka and sona, didn't fair well vs Leona) As it turned out Poppy was a fantastic counter-pick to Leona. By warding the bushes that Leona hides in setting up her lockdown combo, I was able to slam her into a wall and shut her down before she could do anything, generally keeping her health so low that she couldn't risk jumping out very often. On the rare occassions that she did manage to snatch my adc, I'd charge and push her adc so far out of the fight that she couldn't activate Leona's passive and it left Leona vs my adc, and their adc vs Poppy. After a few beat downs they were stuck at their tower as we boxed them out, waiting for their jungle to save them. . which never went well for their jungle. We handedly won that game and my adc was very fed, fat, and happy the entire time.

I have since used Support Poppy as a counter pick to Leona, Thresh, and Blitz. Her natural toughness allows her to soak up damage for her adc and her damage burst next to walls can keep those characters from their natural state of camping in the bushes in lane, waiting for their strikes. Her innate speed also allows her to quickly react to situations outside the lane helping against counter jungling, or helping our own jungler counter theirs before the enemy team can get there (The rare opportunites where I don't have to pull punches and can get kills as a support.) Lastly, the assist gold alone is generally more gold then Poppy gets in the first 15 minutes if she is counterpicked in any other lane, so Poppy can still ger her triforce, she just supplements it with a Sightstone or and Shurilya's.

But I have not yet picked Poppy without getting raged on by my team. Funnily enough, that isn't any different from when I pick Poppy for any other role either, so I have a rather thick skin regarding it.