Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Morgana versus Poppy counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Poppy. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Morgana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Poppy. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually wins when facing off against Poppy, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes a great counter to Poppy.
While Morgana does have a higher winrate compared to Poppy, when facing one another, Morgana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Morgana into Poppy.
Additionally, Morgana has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Poppy matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a great counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Poppy.
If you would like to truly master Morgana to counter Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Poppy. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Morgana versus Poppy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Morgana used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Poppy than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 53.3% battling Poppy with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Poppy as Morgana, Morgana players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Morgana vs Poppy counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.3% winrate overall.
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