Soraka vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Soraka
based on 1,357 Soraka vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Poppy
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Soraka in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Soraka against Poppy counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Poppy. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Soraka usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Poppy
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Who is Better, Soraka or Poppy?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Soraka usually wins when taking on Poppy, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes a good counter for Poppy.
While Soraka does have a higher win rate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Soraka also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Poppy.
Additionally, Soraka also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Poppy matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a decent counter to Poppy. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Soraka against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Soraka to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Poppy. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Soraka versus Poppy build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Soraka included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Poppy with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Poppy as Soraka, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Soraka vs Poppy counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Poppy as Soraka are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.