Poppy vs Yorick Counter Pick

A pool of 2,588 health at level 18 is the largest either champion brings, and it belongs to Yorick rather than to the tank facing him. Add 112.5 armor, a 175-unit attack range against 125, and a permanent supply of Mist Walkers, and the 44.1% Poppy posts over 261 games on patch 16.13.1 stops looking strange. The Hard rating comes from a structural problem: she fights one target, he fights with a crowd.

• Mourning Mist marks and shreds. The globule reduces armor, slows and speeds his summons toward whatever it marks, so her armor matters least exactly when she needs it most.
• Last Rites heals him. Each empowered strike restores health and digs a grave, feeding more Mist Walkers into the following trade.
• Dark Procession cuts the retreat. A destructible wall dropped behind her turns disengage into a stationary fight she has to win outnumbered.

Terrain works both ways, which is the counterplay worth rehearsing: Heroic Charge stuns anything shoved into a wall, and Dark Procession creates walls that were not there a second earlier. Yorick deals mixed damage, so neither resistance alone answers him, and Eulogy of the Isles adds the Maiden as a second source that empowers his attacks. Keeper’s Verdict is better spent separating him from that escort than fishing for a stun.