Talk:Poppy/@comment-3450702-20110909180911/@comment-3358335-20110909182854

I don't like your option 1 very much. For an AD build I usually do variations of your second option. If I am laning with an Alistar or support (that I know and I am on chat with) I will nab boots, health pots and a mana pot. I will then grab sheen, merc treads. .then converge on my second option. My lane play style revolves around getting the kill and really beating down on my opponents early. I start with E.

If I am going to solo lane, or I am not paired up with someone that I necessarily trust I will go with regrowth pendent and start with Q. I will focus on just last hitting, and using my Q and E to harass or just Q to farm. I will try and box them out from their own minions, if they are melee, and try to use the bushes if they are ranged. Once I have enough for philo stone, level 1 boots, a ward, and a couple of pots, I will port back. Get them and then lane until I get Sheen. Philo helps keep that mana charged up for harassing and farming

The builds mostly converge at Merc Treads and Sheen (with or without philo depending on my start) Then it is Trinity (Zeal then Phage). Starks (Recurve, then vampiric, then finish) PD. Then I will either get an IE or Hextech Gunblade. Never underestimate the Gunblade on Poppy, with that Q doing magic damage it restores a lot. If you can steal blue buff, you can get that Q off in just over 2 seconds, you do bursts of damage, but you also get bursts of health.