Poppy·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Poppy Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Dark Harvest as your keystone, followed by Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection and Relentless Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Celerity and Waterwalking in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Armor in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Divine Sunderer as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Dead Man's Plate. For your last 3 items, you should build Force of Nature, Thornmail and finish with Gargoyle Stoneplate. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 56.5% winrate over 16 056 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Poppy Jungle build would be to take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Armor in defense. The items for the build are Divine Sunderer, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Dead Man's Plate as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Force of Nature, Thornmail and Gargoyle Stoneplate. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 54.0% win rate over 9 756 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Armor as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Iceborn Gauntlet as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Dead Man's Plate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Force of Nature, Thornmail and Frozen Heart. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 53.5% win rate across 1 796 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Poppy Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Waterwalking as your primary rune tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Armor as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Iceborn Gauntlet as third item. The last 3 options are Thornmail, Force of Nature and Gargoyle Stoneplate. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 51.9% win rate over 601 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.