Lux vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Lux
based on 5,642 Lux vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Poppy
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Lux in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Lux versus Poppy matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Poppy..
Lux typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Poppy
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Who is Better, Lux or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually wins when trying to fight Poppy, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a good counter for Poppy.
While Lux does have a higher win rate than Poppy, when facing one another, Lux also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Poppy.
Additionally, Lux has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Poppy matchups, Lux is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Lux is a decent counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Poppy. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need 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, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lux versus Poppy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Poppy than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 51.6% battling Poppy with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Poppy as Lux, Lux players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Lux vs Poppy counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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