Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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 provided here highlight several important Urgot vs. Poppy counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Poppy..
Urgot typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Poppy. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Urgot usually wins when trying to fight Poppy, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Urgot makes a great counter to Poppy.
While Urgot does have a higher win rate than Poppy, when they face off with one another, Urgot also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Urgot into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Urgot has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Poppy matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Urgot is a great counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Urgot against Poppy.
If you would like to truly master Urgot to counter Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot most often gets more CS as Poppy. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Urgot versus Poppy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Urgot used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Poppy than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Urgot boasted an average winrate of 53.2% battling Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Poppy as Urgot, Urgot players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Urgot vs Poppy counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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