# Poppy Counters Who counters Poppy? Best and worst picks against Poppy by win rate, plus the lane counters that lead Poppy in gold at 15 minutes. Ranked solo data by role and rank. Canonical HTML: https://baronbuff.com/champions/poppy/counters/ Markdown URL: https://baronbuff.com/champions/poppy/counters.md Language: en ## Breadcrumbs - [Baron Buff](https://baronbuff.com/) - [Champion Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/) - [Poppy](https://baronbuff.com/champions/poppy/) ## Page Content [Poppy guide](https://baronbuff.com/champions/poppy/) [Play against Poppy](https://baronbuff.com/champions/poppy/how-to-play-against/) [Poppy counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/poppy/counters/) Best and worst picks against Poppy in Support at Gold+, ranked by win rate and by gold lead at 15 minutes. Hwei, Renata Glasc and Janna beat Poppy most often. Pantheon, Morgana and Lux win the laning phase against Poppy by the widest gold margin. ## Best picks against Poppy Highest win rate versus Poppy in Support. - 1 [Hwei](https://baronbuff.com/champions/hwei/) 229 games 58.5% - 2 [Renata Glasc](https://baronbuff.com/champions/renata/) 108 games 57.4% - 3 [Janna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/janna/) 212 games 55.7% - 4 [Braum](https://baronbuff.com/champions/braum/) 250 games 55.6% - 5 [Xerath](https://baronbuff.com/champions/xerath/) 144 games 55.6% - 6 [Milio](https://baronbuff.com/champions/milio/) 236 games 55.5% - 7 [Senna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/senna/) 227 games 55.1% - 8 [Tahm Kench](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tahmkench/) 124 games 54.8% - 9 [Zyra](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zyra/) 106 games 54.7% - 10 [Nami](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nami/) 282 games 54.6% - 11 [Alistar](https://baronbuff.com/champions/alistar/) 473 games 54.1% - 12 [Zilean](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zilean/) 112 games 53.6% - 13 [Thresh](https://baronbuff.com/champions/thresh/) 732 games 52.3% - 14 [Morgana](https://baronbuff.com/champions/morgana/) 230 games 51.7% - 15 [Brand](https://baronbuff.com/champions/brand/) 144 games 51.4% ## Worst picks against Poppy Lowest win rate versus Poppy in Support. - 1 [Soraka](https://baronbuff.com/champions/soraka/) 151 games 44.4% - 2 [Neeko](https://baronbuff.com/champions/neeko/) 101 games 45.5% - 3 [Pyke](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pyke/) 472 games 46.0% - 4 [Seraphine](https://baronbuff.com/champions/seraphine/) 318 games 46.2% - 5 [Rell](https://baronbuff.com/champions/rell/) 322 games 47.2% - 6 [Karma](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/) 230 games 47.8% - 7 [Vel'Koz](https://baronbuff.com/champions/velkoz/) 104 games 48.1% - 8 [Blitzcrank](https://baronbuff.com/champions/blitzcrank/) 301 games 48.2% - 9 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 209 games 48.3% - 10 [Bard](https://baronbuff.com/champions/bard/) 188 games 48.4% - 11 [Rakan](https://baronbuff.com/champions/rakan/) 330 games 48.5% - 12 [Yuumi](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yuumi/) 272 games 48.9% ## Best lane counters vs Poppy Largest gold lead over Poppy at 15 minutes in Support. - 1 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 155 games +234 - 2 [Morgana](https://baronbuff.com/champions/morgana/) 100 games +100 - 3 [Lux](https://baronbuff.com/champions/lux/) 154 games +82 ## How to play against Poppy Lane and teamfight rules that hold regardless of your pick. ### In lane and in teamfights - Bait W before using dashes, then punish while her anti-engage field is down. - Fight away from walls so E cannot pin you into a losing trade. - Start skirmishes after she spends W, because dash-heavy engages fail inside it. - Spread around objectives so her ult cannot remove multiple teammates from the fight. - Save unstoppable or ranged engage for after W, then collapse before she can reset space. ## Where Poppy is weak Exploit these in draft and in lane. - Poppy loses value against teams that do not rely on dashes, because her best denial tool has fewer targets. - Her strongest crowd control needs wall angles, so open-space fights make her engage much less threatening. ## Poppy counters: questions ### Who counters Poppy in Support? At Gold+, Hwei (58.5%), Renata Glasc (57.4%) and Janna (55.7%) have the highest win rates against Poppy. ### Who does Poppy counter? Poppy wins most often against Soraka (44.4%), Neeko (45.5%) and Pyke (46.0%). ### Who wins lane against Poppy? By gold lead at 15 minutes, Pantheon (+234), Morgana (+100) and Lux (+82) come out of the laning phase furthest ahead of Poppy. ### How is the counter list ranked? Best and worst picks use same-lane win rate; lane counters use the average gold difference at 15 minutes between the two laners. Both come from Ranked Solo/Duo at the selected rank with at least 100 games per matchup, and are not adjusted for champion strength. - [Support Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/support/) - [Pantheon counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/counters/) - [Morgana counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/morgana/counters/) ## Machine-Readable References - [LLM index](https://baronbuff.com/llms.txt) - [Full LLM reference](https://baronbuff.com/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap](https://baronbuff.com/sitemap.xml)