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 show some critical Yuumi vs. Poppy matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Poppy. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Poppy. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when facing off against Poppy, with a 42.9% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Poppy.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate compared to Poppy, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yuumi into Poppy.
Additionally, Yuumi also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yuumi is a terribly counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Poppy.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi to counter Poppy during both the early game 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 tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average gets a lot less CS compared to Poppy. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Yuumi versus Poppy build include Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Poppy than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 42.9% battling Poppy with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Poppy as Yuumi, Yuumi players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Yuumi vs Poppy face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.9% winrate overall.
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