Talk:Poppy/@comment-67.185.143.98-20110327163956/@comment-569195-20110331230433

I disagree with raising devistating blow first. It's damage mostly scales off of your opponents HP, The extra dmg you get every level is only 20, far lest than you get from raising Heroic charge, 25 + 50 if you hit a wall. A second less cool down is not going to make up for loosing 55dmg as you don't spam the ability early on. What you want to watch out for is the threshold on the 8% extra damage. There is a chart on the strategy page but basically you don't need level 2 until your opponents have more than 938hp.

Now that i have said that i will make myself look like a noob by recommending Tiamat. It really does help with farming as poppy has no real ability to clear minion waves. Plus you get 50AD, HP5 and MP5. It's not a great item on most hero's but it's not terrible on poppy.