Zed vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Zed
based on 2,081 Zed vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Poppy
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here feature several important Zed versus Poppy matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Poppy. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Poppy. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Poppy
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Who is Better, Zed or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when playing against Poppy, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Poppy.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Poppy, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This often 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 Zed vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Poppy. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually gets more CS relative to Poppy. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zed versus Poppy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Poppy than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Poppy as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Poppy matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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