Yorick vs Poppy Counter Pick

Much of Poppy’s toolkit is built for targets Yorick doesn’t present. Steadfast Presence shuts down dashes, and Keeper’s Verdict launches a diving enemy well away, yet neither has anything to grab here: Yorick walks, his ghouls walk, and the Maiden of the Mist keeps pace on foot. That leaves a straight fight between two durable melee champions, and across 244 games on patch 16.13.1, Yorick wins 57.0%.

Armor complicates things. Poppy hits 120 armor by level 18, ahead of the 112.5 on the other side, and Steadfast Presence grants armor and magic resistance passively, scaling up as her health drops. Against purely physical damage that would settle it; Yorick deals mixed damage, so the armor she builds blocks only part of what comes in, and Mourning Mist removes some of it before the first clash. Her real answer is the terrain: Heroic Charge stuns whatever it slams into a wall, and a badly placed Dark Procession gives her that wall. Range tilts toward Yorick at 175 to 125, health toward him at 2,588 to 2,480, and both sit at a difficulty rating of 6. The edge is structural rather than mechanical, which is why it holds up through misplays.