Poppy will get some changes in Upcoming Patch in League of Legends

Poppy will get some Buffs, according to the latest PBE update.

Poppy’s hammer may be comically large, but there’s nothing funny about how rarely she’s played nowadays. Later in the season last year Poppy was ruling the meta—but following big nerfs at the start of Season Seven, she’s fallen from grace. It’s tragic, really, that she flopped from being one of the best top laners in the game to one of the worst, but that’s the risk when balance changes go live. Some of them simply don’t work out, and in Poppy’s case, they definitely didn’t work out.

Her winrate and playrate are a depressing 46 percent and one percent respectively, according to League of Legends stats site Champion.gg. Looking at those rather low numbers, it’s clear that she needs some love, so love is what she gets. A buff to her Q, Hammer Shock, just hit the PBE this week, and it may be exactly what she needs. The buff will raise the percent-max-health damage on the ability from seven to eight percent, and while a one percent buff may not seem like much, remember that the aftershock from the ability also deals the initial damage again. Poppy’s ability to peel for carries in teamfights is impressive, but her laning phase is particularly weak. This hike in damage may be what she needs to survive.

These changes were added to the PBE this week, which means they’ll probably go live with Patch 7.13 in a couple of weeks.