Board Thread:League of Legends discussion/@comment-5489694-20140310172442/@comment-1330314-20141209093507

When I first tried to rework Poppy, I also sort of focused on fixing her. The problem I ended up with, and the problem with certain parts of your kit (namely her passive, W and R), is that there's still a lot of invisible power going on: Poppy getting multiple steroids and passive bonuses that aren't immediately appreciable is less toxic than a Poppy with immunity to most of the enemy team and a confusing yet hugely influential passive, but is still not the best that can be done with her. Your Q mechanic looks really interesting, and I'd build on that, and I do agree that the core mechanic on her E is worth keeping to some degree, but otherwise I'd completely redo her. She doesn't just need to be fixed: she needs a clearer theme, and a better gameplay identity beyond just the champion with the steepest power curve in the game. With that, I did a second rework, and one I'm a lot happier with.

What would help a lot here would be trying to get to the core of what makes Poppy awesome to play: what is it that you love about her, and how would you reinforce that? What do you want her to do better than anyone else, or what nobody else can do? What should make Poppy stand out from the rest? Even stuff like her invincibility or her immunity could be kept, provided you turned that bonus into a mechanic with interesting gameplay and interaction with Poppy's opponents.