Poppy·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Poppy Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Cosmic Insight and Hextech Flashtraption in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Bloodsong as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Dead Man's Plate. For your last 3 items, you should build Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 55.0% winrate over 14 742 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Poppy Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Hail of Blades as your keystone, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Celestial Opposition, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Dead Man's Plate as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail and Vigilant Wardstone. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 50.4% win rate over 3 463 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Aftershock as your keystone, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Celestial Opposition as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Dead Man's Plate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail and Vigilant Wardstone. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 52.2% win rate across 2 370 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Poppy Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward and Treasure Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Solstice Sleigh as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Dead Man's Plate as third item. The last 3 options are Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail and Vigilant Wardstone. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 51.8% win rate over 1 261 matches played.

Situational Poppy Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Poppy build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.