Talk:Poppy/@comment-25532677-20141117050905/@comment-7765731-20141222192007

Against a team like that, you won't accomplish much without your ult as a tank either. You'll just survive being cc'd a little while longer. Poppy's design is flawed in many ways - against the right teams she'll steamroll with no chance of retaliation (similar to what Master Yi generally does to unorganized teams), and against the wrong teams she won't have have so much as a slimmer of a chance from the minute she comes to lane. She has a horrible laning phase with some laners able to straight out completely deny her of hardly getting any farm at all, even under her turret. There are a number of toplaners she can handle really well, the problem is that the ones she cannot handle utterly destroys her while those in-between practically work like light counters do to any other champion. And as any Poppy player knows, she has some horrendous mana issues.

Riot is well aware of how flawed she is, and won't change anything until they have a rework ready for her. Any slight bump in her power could risk turning her into an unstoppable monster, so they'll just leave her in her current void. Hell, if the meta somehow changed to allow her to rise, she'd see a nerf before anything else.