Talk:Poppy/@comment-8234800-20130804232610

I really don't like Poppy as a glass cannon. Her looks just want to make me play her as a tank/bruiser, but that type of build is (mostly) ineffectual. I'm all for champions with varying playstyles, but it's clear her kit is in favor of a glass cannon build.

But it's not just her ult - the passive is part of the problem, too. I used to think that her passive stacks with resistance and that you would want to have as little health as possible to proc her passive more often, but then I learned that her passive is applied after resistances. So, to get the most out of your passive, you'd have to completely avoid buying any defensive items whatsoever.

However, I did play Poppy a lot with that type of build (getting as much resistances as possible while trying to avoid extra health), and I find that fills a rather interesting niche in the game. There's no other tank like that in the game - you can always just rack up health - but with Poppy, I always had to build appropriate resistances against the enemy team. I had a surprising amount of success with that build, too, but that was in Dominion.

So, what I propose for her passive would be a change like this: Applies before resistances, but only 25-30% damage reduction to balance it out.