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Why isn't Teemo seeing competitive play after...

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Hello everyone,

I was recently wondering... Why isn't Teemo being played competitively after the removal of Oracle's?

The removal of this item brought Evelynn back from the shadows and into the spotlight. We see her ALL the time now and she seems to do pretty well.

However, Teemo still seems to be considered a "trollpick". Why is this? One would think that his shrooms would be great.

I know right now tanks are in vogue, and Teemo, being squishy, wouldn't really fit into this. But is that the main reason he isn't picked? Or is it because of the existence of trinkets? Or why?
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Because he doesn't contribute to teamfights and can easily be shut down in lane by a dozen champions and junglers

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He isn't picked for the same reason ****er doesn't see competitive play - if you don't fight in their turrets, or shroom fields, they basically don't have an ult.

If i recall correctly, C9 Hai did play a game as Teemo, and a little before that, in S3 worlds, TSM reginald played teemo as well. The reason he still doesn't see play is because he's the son of the devil, and because his AP ratios got nerfed
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He was picked a couple times, and was appeared to be a huge solo queue threat (in Silver at least where people walk into mushrooms trying to clear them), but he wasn't played in competitive for the same reason utopus.
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He is easy to counter, not only through champions, but with items; and a trinket.
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Because he doesn't contribute to teamfights and can easily be shut down in lane by a dozen champions and junglers


To be more specific, Gap closing top laners beat him. He can't adc because his range is piss poor. He was played mid lane by Hai but he trainwrecked the game with his zone control. They nerfed his ult so much it's pretty useless. He has become nothing more than an auto attack champ.

I disagree that he doesn't contribute to team fights, but he doesn't provide the same benefits as about 20-30 other champs provide.
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the most teemo can do in a teamfight is blind an adc, but he cant even get into range to do that without getting murdered himself

i have seen some high elo streamers use some cheese strats with teemo in solo queue but other than that hes not good enough to be competitive
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Oh my god, it hurts to laugh. That was so funny to watch
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Em wasn't it like last year Chawy from Singapore Sentinels used AP Teemo in the adc role for quite a period of time.

That was long ago, but still counts lel.
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