Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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 stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Tryndamere versus Poppy counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Poppy..
Tryndamere often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Poppy. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tryndamere usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Poppy, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Tryndamere makes an ok counter to Poppy.
While Tryndamere does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Tryndamere also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tryndamere into Poppy.
Moreover, Tryndamere also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tryndamere 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Tryndamere is a somewhat poor counter for Poppy. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tryndamere against Poppy.
To truly master Tryndamere to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere often racks up more CS relative to Poppy. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Tryndamere versus Poppy build include Phantom Dancer, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Tryndamere used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tryndamere boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when playing against Poppy with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Poppy as Tryndamere, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Tryndamere vs Poppy counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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