Vex vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Vex
based on 1,117 Vex vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Vex
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.
Vex vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Vex in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Vex versus Poppy counter stats that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Poppy..
Vex normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives less damage than Poppy. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Poppy
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Who is Better, Vex or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually fairs equally well when facing off against Poppy, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes an ok counter for Poppy.
While Vex does have a lower winrate compared to Poppy, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vex into Poppy.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vex is a somewhat poor counter to Poppy. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vex against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Poppy 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often gets more CS compared to Poppy. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Vex versus Poppy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vex included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs Poppy than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Poppy with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Poppy as Vex, Vex players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vex vs Poppy counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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