Poppy vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Poppy
based on 2,171 Poppy vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Darius
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Poppy vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Poppy in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some important Poppy vs. Darius counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Darius’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Darius. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Poppy typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Darius. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Darius
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Who is Better, Poppy or Darius?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when facing off against Darius, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes a poor counter to Darius.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate compared to Darius, when facing one another, Poppy also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Poppy into Darius.
Moreover, Poppy also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Poppy is a trash counter for Darius. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Poppy against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to counter Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy on average racks up less CS relative to Darius. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Poppy versus Darius build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Darius with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Darius as Poppy, Poppy players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Poppy vs Darius fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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