Talk:Poppy/@comment-67.185.143.98-20110327163956/@comment-3358335-20110331222933

Curious, are you building Shurelya's Reverie with it? Because from the philosopher stone's trivia:

"As it generates gold over time, the Philosopher's Stone can actually pay for itself. It takes 26 minutes and 40 seconds to do this. If you sell it, it takes 13 minutes and 20 seconds to pay itself."

At 26 minutes I usually already have a Trinity Force and Merc Treads. At which point, farming is no longer an issue. I mention this, because I used to go with gold generating items quite often, only to do the math and realize most of the time I was barely breaking even with them, with an unknown set back of not spending that money on something better, earlier.

A similar example would be changing the order of Zeal and Sheen. I used to always go Zeal first because the Move Speed is incredibly valuable to Poppy for wall slam positioning. But I changed the order a while back when I realized the Sheen + Big Hammer was definately more effective than the wall slam without Sheen.

Basically, getting Sheen as early as possible with Poppy solves a lot of her gold issues. Whether you are farming minions or Champions.