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 strategic Yone versus Poppy matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Poppy..
Yone normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yone usually loses when facing off against Poppy, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Yone makes a poor counter for Poppy.
While Yone does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Yone also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Yone into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Yone is a somewhat poor counter to Poppy. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yone against Poppy.
To truly master Yone in order to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone often racks up more CS compared to Poppy. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Yone versus Poppy build include Death's Dance, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Poppy than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yone boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Poppy with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Poppy as Yone, Yone players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Yone vs Poppy fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Poppy as Yone are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.