User blog comment:BIA-Kaboose/The Sheep are Everywhere/@comment-3466579-20130917092517/@comment-8267817-20130917123532

A counter statement if you will, Many people used to build Poppy as a tank, full out tank. Then one day I just read through her skills and realized something, thanks to her passive she could be one of the sturdiest AP/AD assassins in the game, with the ability to kill an entire team while practically invincible because of her ult if used correctly (throw in a Morgana shield and you are an unstoppable force), and now I will only play Poppy as an assassin, because it is honestly the most practical way to play her, build her as a tank, she is just a meat shield with some help from her passive when she hits incredibly low health, and an ult that makes people focus her even less than they already would, yeah she can still dish out some damage against tanks that build a lot of health, but overall she has very little CC to make her a true threat, so when you build her as an assassin she occupies their focus, meaning a lot of the time you are sitting there ulting and laughing your head of as they try to focus you to no avail.

As long as you have a decent grasp of game mechanics and the mechanical skill to utilize a champion you can honestly do almost anything you feel like doing. Granted ranked is a different story, but typically in normals you should honestly be able to just play the game, instead people treat it like they are pros and like they are on a division series every single game ( I play at around Silver rank, and yet people near my level of play think they know better than me because they like to follow the meta and I just play the game ).