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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stats shown on this page show several critical Poppy versus Rumble counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, showing that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rumble..
Poppy often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Rumble. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Poppy usually wins when playing against Rumble, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes a good counter for Rumble.
While Poppy does have a higher winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Poppy also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Poppy into Rumble.
Additionally, Poppy also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. 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 Poppy vs Rumble matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Poppy is a decent counter to Rumble. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Poppy against Rumble.
To truly master Poppy to counter Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up 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 closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy usually accumulates less CS relative to Rumble. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Poppy versus Rumble build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Hollow Radiance. When Poppy combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Rumble than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Rumble with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Rumble as Poppy, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Poppy vs Rumble battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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