Poppy with Darius
How to Synergize Poppy and Darius
based on 1,243 Poppy with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Darius
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Darius
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Advice to Understand How Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Poppy Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Darius helps Poppy perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is paired with Darius, she gets a pretty big loss in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Darius does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Darius.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Darius on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of covering Poppy during teamfights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Darius?
There is no perfect ally for Poppy that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Darius is a very typical companion for Poppy. By playing on the same team as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Poppy and Darius that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be very careful when finding Darius comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Poppy and Darius together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Darius ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Poppy to synergize with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Poppy and Darius synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Darius than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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