Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
The stats shown here underscore some critical Taliyah against Poppy matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Poppy..
Taliyah typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Poppy. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Poppy, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes an ok counter for Poppy.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Poppy.
Additionally, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter for Poppy. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Poppy.
To truly master Taliyah in order to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Poppy. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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 many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Taliyah versus Poppy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Poppy than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Poppy with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Poppy as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Poppy counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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