Poppy vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Poppy
based on 5,642 Poppy vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Poppy vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Poppy in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Poppy vs. Lux counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Poppy normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Lux. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Poppy and Lux
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Who is Better, Poppy or Lux?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when facing off against Lux, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Poppy makes a bad counter to Lux.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate than Lux, when on opposite teams, Poppy also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Lux.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Poppy is a somewhat poor counter to Lux. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Poppy against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Poppy to counter Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy on average gets a similar amount of CS as Lux. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Poppy versus Lux build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Lux than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Lux with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Lux 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 combinations we have analyed for Poppy vs Lux counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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