Talk:Poppy/@comment-27010991-20130610175327/@comment-3358335-20130625170305

Of the champs you mentioned most of those have been reworked MULTIPLE times. They'd been nerfed, buffed, rebalanced several times before the Dev's finally reworked the champ completely trying to make them fit better.

Poppy has hardly been touched. This last patch they refactored some code on her. The last patch to effect her before that was in may of 2012 and that was another bug fix. The last patch that actually changed her strength was in October of 2010. They aren't trying to fix her or rework her. Poppy has a very limited and devote following, and since she isn't overplayed riot is content to leave her the way she is.

You need to broaden your scope of "enabling" damage. How does blitz enable damage? CC and tankiness. He doesn't add a single thing to his adc, but he is a strong support. Poppy doesn't need a lot of $$$ to buy damage. She does need lots of $$$ to become Hyper carry. But if you find yourself in the full support roll and starved for $$$ Poppy is quite capable of just playing off-tank support. and still effective. If you play her right she peels assasins off of your Carry, and/or can pull the other team's carry out of a fight.