Talk:Poppy/@comment-26251295-20150503171504/@comment-10136989-20150528102032

I've gotten 2 proper Pentakills and a few unnofficial Poppy pentakills, only one in Ranked though. You have to be pretty damn fed to do so, with no AoE damage to help in fights.

The big mistake I see many people make when looking at a champions abilities or gameplay is seeing how well they do in specific situations, when League will have a much more generalised variation of events. Poppy is someone you can say "oh she can do this and chase you and stun you and do lots of damage, etc. But she only has 2 damaging spells, neither do too much damage by themselves (or without a wall), and she has huge issues with actually using abilities due to her mana, and farming creeps to counteract her low mana problems.

Poppy has the capabilties to be a broken as fuck bullet flying around the place killing as she pleases, but the odds of the game getting to this point are incredibly low. She has to survive laning, farm poorly for items, play a risky aggresive playstyle to get ahead, unlike most top laners, who are happy to sit back passively, farm, teleport when necessary, and do their job without risking much. She cannot be first picked as several prominent top laners destroy her, and there are even other picks that can screw her later game over, champions like Janna or Thresh, who are either going to save their ulted carry, or get ulted themselves and cc you out of the fight.

On the topic of her rework they seem to want to keep her E, and change everything else, probably retaining the movespeed, AA enhance, and tankiness in some way.