Thresh vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Thresh
based on 2,466 Thresh vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Poppy
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Poppy
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.
Thresh vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Thresh vs. Poppy matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Poppy. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Poppy. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Poppy
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Who is Better, Thresh or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Poppy, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter to Poppy.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Poppy, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Poppyas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often racks up less CS compared to Poppy. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Thresh versus Poppy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Poppy than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Poppy with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Poppy as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Thresh vs Poppy counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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