How to win lane as Poppy against Vladimir · 50.89% win rate over 621 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Vlad is a dreadful level-1, but so are you with a single ability and low base damage — just deny his Q last-hits and set up level 2. |
| Level 2 | Poppy | With Q+E you can E him into the wall for a stun and Q the max-HP chunk before his pool is a real escape — your strongest early window. |
| Level 3 | Poppy | All your basic tools are online and his pool is leveled low, so a wall-stun off his melee creeps out-trades his flat early poke. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Your flat damage stops scaling while his Q-E poke ramps — lean on W's armor/MR and short trades rather than kill threat. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | R is a disengage and displacement tool here, not a burst — it keeps you safe and denies his Hemoplague but will not kill a champ who can pool. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your cheap tank components mean a pre-Rylai Vlad cannot burst your armor/MR — even, so keep shoving and short-trading. |
| Two+ items | Vladimir | He out-scales hard: pool dodges your E and R, and full-AP Vlad kites and drains through your flat damage — play frontline, not duelist. |
Vlad is one of the weakest level-1s in the game and so are you, so just deny his Q last-hits and set up your level 2 spike. At 2-3 you genuinely win this: E him into the wall behind the creeps for the stun, then Q the max-HP chunk and walk off — his early base damage cannot answer it. The one rule is never throw E or your fling while his Sanguine Pool (W) is up, because he just becomes untargetable and your whole trade whiffs. Bait the pool with a fake step-in, then commit when it is down.
The full Poppy vs Vladimir report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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