How to win lane as Zac against Poppy · 46.71% win rate over 152 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Poppy | Poppy's level 1 Steadfast Presence W cancels your only engage tool. |
| Level 2 | Poppy | At 2 her Q and E out-trade your dash-locked kit. |
| Level 3 | Poppy | Level 3 her wall-stun combo keeps you off her and ahead. |
| Levels 4-5 | Poppy | Levels 4-5 her W grounding denies your slingshot engage. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Level 6 is skill — baiting her W decides the trade both ways. |
| First item | Even / skill | First item is skill as your W trades match hers once W is down. |
| Two+ items | Zac | Late your ranged R reaches carries her single-target peel can't. |
Poppy is a hard early lane because she's built to stop exactly what you do — Steadfast Presence W passively cancels your E Elastic Slingshot dash and grounds you, deleting your engage. Her Hammer Shock Q and wall-stun Heroic Charge E out-trade you, so don't force it while W is available.
The full Zac vs Poppy 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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