Illaoi vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Illaoi
based on 993 Illaoi vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Poppy Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Illaoi Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Poppy as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Poppy
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here feature several critical Illaoi vs. Poppy counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Poppy..
Illaoi normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Poppy
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Illaoi or Poppy?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Poppy, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a good counter for Poppy.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Poppy, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Illaoi into Poppy.
Furthermore, Illaoi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Poppy matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Illaoi is a good counter for Poppy. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Poppy.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
Additional Information for Illaoi Players
How We Calculated Our Illaoi vs Poppy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually racks up more CS as Poppy. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Illaoi versus Poppy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Poppy than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 52.3% battling Poppy with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Poppy as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Illaoi vs Poppy counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
If you want to get Illaoi x Poppy tips and builds for a a particular rank, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the stats and build suggestions shown are computed using all matches with data with both champions.