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.
Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Poppy vs. Milio counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Milio’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Milio. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Poppy usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Milio. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when facing off against Milio, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Poppy makes a bad counter for Milio.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate compared to Milio, when they face off with one another, Poppy also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Poppy into Milio.
Additionally, Poppy also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Milio. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Milio matchups, Milio is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Poppy is a garbage counter to Milio. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Poppy against Milio.
If you would like to truly master Poppy to counter Milio during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy usually accumulates much more CS as Milio. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Poppy versus Milio build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Milio than with many other typical builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Milio with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Milio as Poppy, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Poppy vs Milio counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Milio as Poppy are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.