Poppy vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Poppy
based on 880 Poppy vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Poppy vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Poppy in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant Poppy against Viktor matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Viktor..
Poppy usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Viktor. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Viktor
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Who is Better, Poppy or Viktor?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Poppy usually loses when facing off against Viktor, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes a poor counter to Viktor.
While Poppy does have a much lower winrate than Viktor, when they face off with one another, Poppy also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Poppy into Viktor.
Moreover, Poppy also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Poppy is a garbage counter to Viktor. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Poppy against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Poppy to counter Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy often gets less CS compared to Viktor. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Poppy versus Viktor build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Viktor than with most other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 45.3% battling Viktor with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Viktor 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 runes we have analyed for Poppy vs Viktor counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.3% win rate overall.
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