Aatrox vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Aatrox
based on 3,128 Aatrox vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Poppy
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Aatrox vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Aatrox in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Aatrox vs. Poppy matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Poppy..
Aatrox normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aatrox and Poppy
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when playing against Poppy, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Aatrox makes an ok counter for Poppy.
While Aatrox does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Aatrox also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aatrox into Poppy.
Additionally, Aatrox has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aatrox is a somewhat poor counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aatrox against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox on average picks up more CS compared to Poppy. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Aatrox versus Poppy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Poppy than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Poppy with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Poppy as Aatrox, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Aatrox vs Poppy counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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