Talk:Poppy/@comment-5763148-20130825140426/@comment-3358335-20130918173305

Actually someone ran the numbers a while back and HP, MR, and Armor all have the same effect on her passive. It seems counter intuitive the way her passive reads, but because of when the passive and the resistances are applied, giving her more armor doesn't help the passive any more than giving her more HP. Which means a really decent defensive item for Poppy is a sightstone for the HP, and the free wards for smashing people into walls near bushes.

As for items hydra is good for giving her that AOE that she lacks and helps her farming, but overall gunblade helps her the most, since the Q proc's off of spell vamp not lifesteal, so the with BotRK and hydra you are not getting life back on her biggest damage ability. I've had Q's that have hit so hard that just with a revolver I have gotten back a quarter of my life.