Poppy vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Poppy
based on 1,703 Poppy vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Kayle
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Advice to Win Against Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Poppy vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Poppy in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Poppy vs. Kayle counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Poppy usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Kayle. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Kayle
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Who is Better, Poppy or Kayle?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Poppy makes a poor counter to Kayle.
While Poppy does have a lower winrate compared to Kayle, when they face off with one another, Poppy also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Kayle.
Moreover, Poppy also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Poppy is a somewhat poor counter to Kayle. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to counter Kayle during both the early game 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 tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy most often gets less CS compared to Kayle. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Poppy versus Kayle build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Kayle than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Kayle with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kayle as Poppy, Poppy players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Poppy vs Kayle counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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