Poppy·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Poppy Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Shield Bash, Bone Plating and Revitalize in the primary tree, as well as Manaflow Band and Scorch 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 Sundered Sky as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Winter's Approach. For your last 3 items, you should build Spirit Visage, Thornmail and finish with Unending Despair. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 55.7% winrate over 5 306 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Poppy Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Bone Plating and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Scorch 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 Sunfire Aegis, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Winter's Approach as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Thornmail, Kaenic Rookern and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 54.6% win rate over 3 423 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Bone Plating and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Scorch 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 Hollow Radiance as your first item, then Mercury's Treads as a second item and Winter's Approach as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet and Kaenic Rookern. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 53.7% win rate across 1 371 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Poppy Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating and Revitalize as your primary rune tree, and Manaflow Band with Scorch as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Iceborn Gauntlet as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Winter's Approach as third item. The last 3 options are Hollow Radiance, Thornmail and Kaenic Rookern. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 59.0% win rate over 498 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.