Ahri vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Ahri
based on 1,816 Ahri vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Poppy Counter Build
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Core Ahri Items
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Poppy
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several significant Ahri versus Poppy matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Poppy..
Ahri often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Poppy. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Poppy
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Ahri or Poppy?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Poppy, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a poor counter to Poppy.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Poppy, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Poppy.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Poppy. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Poppy.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ahri
Additional Information for Ahri Players
How We Calculated Our Ahri vs Poppy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates more CS as Poppy. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Poppy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Poppy with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Poppy as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ahri vs Poppy counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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