Jayce vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Jayce
based on 853 Jayce vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Poppy Counter Build
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Core Jayce Items
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Poppy
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Jayce versus Poppy counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Poppy..
Jayce often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jayce and Poppy
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Jayce or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when playing against Poppy, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a bad counter to Poppy.
While Jayce does have a lower win rate than Poppy, when facing one another, Jayce also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Jayce into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Jayce is a garbage counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jayce against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jayce 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce often accumulates more CS as Poppy. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Jayce versus Poppy build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Jayce used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Poppy than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jayce boasted an average winrate of 47.8% battling Poppy with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Poppy as Jayce, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Jayce vs Poppy counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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