Poppy vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Poppy
based on 1,877 Poppy vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Poppy vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Poppy in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Poppy versus Vi matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vi..
Poppy typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Vi
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Who is Better, Poppy or Vi?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when trying to fight Vi, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Poppy makes a bad counter to Vi.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate compared to Vi, when facing one another, Poppy also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Poppy into Vi.
Additionally, Poppy also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Poppy is a trash counter to Vi. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Poppy in order to counter Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy most often picks up more CS as Vi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Poppy versus Vi build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Vi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when playing against Vi with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Vi as Poppy, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Poppy vs Vi matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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