Poppy vs Camille Counter Pick

Camille’s Adaptive Defenses grants a shield matched to the damage type of whoever attacks her, and against a purely physical kit it is always the correct shield. The record still favours the tank: Poppy wins 57.3% across 1,212 games on patch 16.13.1, which is a substantial record for a support pairing.

What outweighs the shield:

• Both attack from 125, so Camille gains nothing on spacing, and Poppy moves at 345 against 340.
• Durability separates late — 2,480 health and 120 armour against 2,333 and 111.5 — despite Camille’s higher 650 base health and her 68 attack damage against 60 at level 1.
• Steadfast Presence passively raises Poppy’s armour and magic resist, and that bonus grows as her health falls, which is precisely when an assassin commits.
• Heroic Charge stuns whenever the target is pushed into a wall, and Hookshot needs Camille beside a wall to be used at all.
• Iron Ambassador returns a shield when Poppy collects her thrown buckler, blunting the first hit of a combo.

The route through it is Precision Protocol recast into The Hextech Ultimatum, which anchors Poppy in place and adds magic damage to each attack, the half of the chart her 32 base magic resist covers rather than her armour, while Tactical Sweep heals Camille from the outer half of its cone.