Teemo Build Guide by Sovereign Kitten

THE PASSIONATE GUIDE TO TEEMO

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Choose Champion Build:

TOP
SUPPORT
MID
JUNGLE

Runes: PRESS THE ATTACK

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Precision

Press the Attack

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Domination

Cheap Shot

Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2 3 4

Kill pressure

Flash

Ignite

Recommended Items

Ranked #12 in
Top Lane

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Ranked #12 in
Top Lane

Win 50%

More Teemo Runes

Items

CORE STARTER ITEMS

Doran's Ring

Doran's Shield

Boots

ALTERNATIVE STARTER ITEMS

Dark Seal

Doran's Blade

Tome

Cloth

FIRST BACK

DAMAGE

POKE / CS

ANTI-HEAL

ALWAYS BUY VISION

AD Fighter (Losing)

AP Mage (Losing)

Armguard Rush

SUMMON AERY

STANDARD

OPTIONS

ANTI-HEAL

OPTIONAL MYTHIC

PRESS THE ATTACK

SPLIT-PUSH (FOCUSED)

SITUATIONALS

EXTENDED DAMAGE

REPLACES BOOTS LATE GAME

SWITCHING TO SHROOMS (LATE GAME)

OPTIONAL MYTHIC

FLEET FOOT

IDEAL

Can't burst anymore?

LESS THAN IDEAL

SITUATIONALS

ELECTROCUTE

BURST

REPLACES LUDEN

OPTIONS

ANTI-HEAL

DARK HARVEST

NUCLEAR SHROOMS

ANTI-HEAL

BURST

REPLACES LUDEN

ITEM CHOICES

SWITCHING FROM BURST

GRASP

SHROOM BRUISER

ANTI-HEAL

OMNI-TERROR

OCEAN

GLACIAL

LOCKDOWN & TORMENT

SYNERGY WITH EVERFROST

PHASE RUSH

NASUS COUNTER

OPTIONAL FOR (AP) NASUS

Ability Order (E) MAX

1 2 3 4

Teemo Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Ryze

Extreme

Ryze will mostly always run Phase Rush into you. You do NOT win this lane in any logical way. He will have full control over the waves so long as he knows how to utilize his combos correctly. So just keep yourself back, in bushes or to the side of your minions that are not being comboed unless he is not playing well or lining up the correct AoE spread combo. I suggest to take resolve as your secondary runes with Bone Plating and Overgrowth, and max rank your (Q) for poking only. It's often a better option to dodge this match-up entirely instead of having to go into the hard-counter, but this is personal preference. It's a farming and survival lane mostly. The good thing is, he isn't played much anymore so it's rare to see.

Cassiopeia

Ideal

Cassiopeia is really the only champion in which Teemo synergizes well with, since she feeds off his easy to hit auto attack DoT to spam her (E).

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Cassiopeia

Ideal

Cassiopeia is really the only champion in which Teemo synergizes well with, since she feeds off his easy to hit auto attack DoT to spam her (E).

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FAQ

I created this guide about 4 years ago slowly improving it as new changes arrived, and I am proud to present you with constantly updated daily/weekly information that isn't just clickbait. I hope this improves your success with Teemo.

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Teemo is all about making your opponents suffer. Both mentally and physically. He is a pestilence to any and all who oppose him, in the hands of a knowledgeable player he's a monster, he's also cute.

He is in general a straightforward and honest champion, without any forms of cheese like shields or massive sustain / invulnerability. He is all about knowledge & strategy, he will help you learn about League.

If you like being annoying or ruining peoples fun, then do I have good news for you my friend. Teemo is the champion for you!

One of the biggest problems with playing Teemo comes with being flamed and put down by almost everyone you come in contact with. It's basically a never ending cycle of hate for picking him anywhere.

Teemo has always been considered a meme to people & troll pick for years. People refuse to understand how useful he actually is, when played properly. His objective control or vision provided by shrooms, to being focused by everyone on the enemy team for allies to have less focus, to finish them off. So if you're someone who struggles under pressure, Teemo might not be the champion for you.

● I know the in's and outs of playing Teemo properly from multiple perspectives.

● I have played Teemo and accumulated 6,000,000 Mastery Points theorizing.

● I have been in your position. Mistakes, bad KDA to simply having horrible CS.

● I am a person with high patience and dedicated. No tolerance for toxic attitudes.

Coaching works as such. You simply have to tell me what you are looking for in a direct message either on here, Discord or while I am livestreaming. A review of your OP.GG? Perhaps for me to go over some of your games replays to help locate major flaws? So long as you provide a link or replay file, I would love to help when I have time.

I have time every day of the week from the hours of 6 AM - 4 PM (PST). We can go over everything and you just do your best to improve off of that. If I find that you're too toxic, I reserve the right to refuse coaching.

I offer free coaching. You do not have to feel obligated to pay me a dime. I offer quality and satisfaction.

Unlike other people in this world especially in the world of League of Legends. I truly love Teemo and the Teemo community and all who look at him with the slightest interest in making him their a part of their life.

Yes, I could ask you to pay me, but I choose not to because I do not care for money. I’m not nor have I ever been a wealthy person. I wouldn’t say no to donations out of respect so I could buy food, if you wanted to. It's free coaching.

If you read through this guide, then you have to be the one to ultimately implement your own type of play-style and charm to your builds. Reading this guide isn't going to suddenly bounce you from Iron to Challenger overnight. There are no shortcuts, or easy ways to do so. You practice, practice and practice. Things will become clear to you, as you naturally try to understand first hand and improve. Focus on yourself not your allies and stay positive.

This guide alone will yes, guide you in the right direction by teaching you the basics of how League is meant to be played, be it with how to counter an enemy champion, or to survive a very hard match-up, however, it isn't foolproof. You, yourself have to learn this champion with your own two hands and mind. So someone you know plays him differently? That doesn't mean you have to mimic them. You can also implement your very own style and strategies in how to play in a comfortable way you built for yourself. Find what works for you, while looking around!

Teemo is not a champion that you can simply pick up, put on a rune and build any item you want and hard-stomp anyone that gets in your way, he actually requires the knowledge of the game as a whole to dominate.

Knowledge of champion match-ups - as in what their abilities do and how to counter them. What objectives do for you and your teammates. Minion control and how controlling a minion wave can severely cripple the opposing team, with objectives. Knowing all of your strengths and weaknesses, right up to when you simply can do nothing on your own or with your team mates, which simply means move on to the next game instead of holding people hostage.

WHY AM I NOT ABLE TO WIN GAMES!?

Personal Settings.

I would personally advise you to turn on quick cast for all skills. While also keeping your quick cast indicator disabled always. There is a very small delay if you have this enabled which really prevents that smooth transition from using your (Q) especially when you have to click the enemy champion. Just hover and press, it's all you should need to do.

It may seem weird, however, the huds in League by default take up a very large portion of the screen, especially the chat. I would highly recommend turning everything to 0 besides your cursor and minimap, the cursor is based on personal preference, but the map should always be 100. It may not seem like much, but trust me. You begin to notice the game more and less toxicity, since your focal points become the game.

Audio may not seem like it plays much of a role in this game, but it does. Listening to your allies pinging you right up to listening for the enemies ultimate (Kled, Sion) I tend to do nothing but spam Teemo's laugh so that's all I really care about, but work around what works for you. Having the settings all at 0 isn't going to bode well for you.

There isn't much to add or change with this portion, I would highly suggest swapping (Y) for (Space) toggling the lock on camera, if you are the type who likes to cycle through both. It is much more smooth and reliant since your thumb rests on the space bar.

By default you do not have all of your pings enabled, I would highly suggest you turn on the "Area is Warded" somewhere comfortable, which will allow you to properly warn your allies instead of pinging for danger. I use the (Tilde) key, as it is easy to access.

Nobody really needs to bother with chat. You need to focus on the most important of things, yourself. Who cares if they want to talk **** to you. You do want to win, correct?

Hopefully these small changes to your settings will help improve your overall ability to communicate and free up elements. Making things more easier to see, allowing you to focus on what's most important. Yourself and not the toxicity. Good luck!

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I truly hope that the information provided in this guide will help you and provide you with all the knowledge that you need to improve yourself steadily & consistently reaching your personal goals. It's laid down plainly.

Even while at the top of your game, you will always run into problems. Problems you might not be effectively able to deal with on your own. It might be ganks, your team or mana. Overall the message I am trying to spread is to keep your head up and keep looking for ways to improve yourself to do better next time.

Your primary spell is going to always be . It's used everywhere because it's an aggressive spell. It's not worth taking anything other of the other spells, because of the extra kill pressure. So if you do feel like you play more passive in lane, a different spell would most likely compliment your play-style.

is rarely taken as this spell is for players who want nothing more than split-push and play objectively. You can flank and back door with 's especially if you have them shoved to their open nexus while your team fights around objectives. It's personal preference, however.

Some may enjoy taking in some of their games as a form of CC and added utility for when they get ganked and want to escape/kill when they dive you under tower. It will also reduce their damage by 40% allowing you to out-trade them when they extend into you.

can be used to help prevent you from being dove under tower and executed. It also helps you to enter passive due to the interaction with shields and champion damage. Enemy champions are not hitting you directly, you're never in combat. So long as you're not being CC'd, which lets you stealth.

First and foremost, if you are playing Teemo in a solo lane then your main goal is to take control lane period, before they hit level 6. This means, being super aggressive when the time calls for it, being mindful of minion aggro and trying to push them out of lane or to get a kill every time they make a minor mistake, like going for that cannon minion and getting hit for 75% of their HP in the process, while also missing because of our well timed . If you lane passively because you're scared especially into an easy champion, you lose.

Teemo is at his strongest during first few levels (1-3), falling off for a bit before coming back strong at level 11 and onward. Once most champions hit level 6, they normally have everything that they need to take you out even if you've gotten a few kills off on them. This could be any number of things, their gap close, CC, burst, spike items. While all we have is & 's which doesn't really do much, since we can't place down many shrooms until later. If they simply dash and hit us, we lose all passive speed and get run down rather easily. Farm & simply stall for level 11 don't make mistakes, because you got a kill. Respect.

You most likely will get the first blood or a few kills off of your laner in the early game, especially if you are a low-elo player, players here are more willing to make mistakes and allow you to freely snowball because of it, but this is where it becomes extremely important for you to remain ahead throughout the entirety of the game through proper roaming, warding, csing and team fighting. You never wanna simply stay in one place.

You can do this roughly a few ways. You can utilize your lead to punish them further, while also zoning them from gaining CS while freezing your waves, preventing them from gaining EXP / Gold while building up a large enough wave to crash their tower after you kill them setting them back through gold with a huge wave to protect you from ganks and them moving forward. Because if they die to you, they lose so much more EXP.

These games tend to be very boring. If you are going up against an enemy laner that knows how to deal with you. They understand your threat and respect you by backing off, then there really isn't much you can do in terms of snowballing. Especially if they play extremely passive during the first few levels, and allow the waves to naturally crash to their tower by giving up a few CS where they can freeze and zone you with threats of ganks and possibly pressure if you're up against or other hard engage champions.

You simply need to control your minion waves much more effectively and not simply push and shove all game. This simply sets them up for an ally to gank and kill you, setting you behind heavily because if you were not able to kill them before, you now have very limited options for what you can do, so don't get into this position.

Focus on last hitting, and utilizing your poke and harass for when they step forward. That's pretty much all you have to do, respect them when they act a bit more aggressively and punish them for making a minor or major mistake. A form of mistake would be missing his pull allowing for us to play aggressive for a few moments, it's a small window but you get the idea. You're primarily going to be focusing on CS, warding and harassing when they make the mistakes while, respecting them when their abilities are up and when they become a lot more aggressive after being passive all game. Usually this is an indication of being ganked.

So if you have not been capable of taking control of the lane early, then you should be farming and prioritizing other lanes and your allies. Once you hit level 6, you become a huge asset to your teammates and to yourself if you are effectively utilizing your and granting them vision of top sides jungle, allowing you to play more respectfully into champions who are only now beginning to play more aggressively towards you, since they have their all in damage, and threat from their jungler/support if they are ganking your lane.

The biggest thing you could do is to simply not get into this position in the first place, being behind on Teemo is one of the worst things that can happen to you in a game. Once again, Teemo has his biggest chance to get a lead while he is level (1-3). If he is killed by level 2 or 3, that's it. You've pretty much already lost this lane in terms of snowballing, so tell yourself to STOP. It's over. Focus on CS, managing waves and simply staying alive while not making the same mistakes over and over again, killing is a part of the game, but you getting a kill after being set behind 2-4 waves isn't going to change things, period. Play it safe, freeze waves & scale late.

This is something you need to understand. is a very easily ganked champion from levels (1-5), because there is no threat of shrooms and in most cases we don't even have our or .

It doesn't help if all you do is shove to tower all game. If they can put you out the second you hit the lane at level 1-2 they can easily shut you out of the game entirely if they are somewhat competent in their ability to play the game. It's all about not losing to this by simply becoming more wary of these instances and your surroundings. Place vision wards out early around minutes (2:30, 4:20 & 6:10) to be more accurate, these are the most common times most all enemy junglers will be top-side due to their pathing early game.

There are plenty of ways to prevent losing to ganks, plenty of benefits to being the prime focus of ganks especially when it's the enemy jungler. Placing down deep at the right time and properly utilizing to waste more time while your allies grab objectives elsewhere and put pressure which is invaluable. In the end you may have died, but you wasted 2 or more minutes of two players' time which is a huge set back along with them being siphoned of EXP. You should revel in being ganked.

League isn't an easy game to master. It takes the ability to multitask consistently to maximize your macro management. You need to be focusing on everything, even if it is hard to do so. You need to practice to get to the point where you can do it well. This can be simply looking at your mini-map while you're waiting to poke the enemy or simply to last hit your CS. Pinging when you see something in the quick glance to alert your allies. You might notice you have 0% vision and decide you should shove the lane to roam a bit to remedy that. The reason you would shove is so your minions die and keep a majority of the enemies minions alive due to their tower killing our minions faster than they can kill them when we return from roaming.

Tunnel Vision is simply the act of repressing everything around you while focusing entirely on killing champions and nothing else. Are they low HP? Good! But... take a glance at the mini-map where are their allies? No vision? Probably around the corner so if you chase, you run the risk of dying. You must avoid this by forcing yourself out of that mindset or you'll simply never improve.

I get it. You feel empowered. You're 20/0 and boy you're out for blood and nothing in this world can stop you! However... You'll lose sense of time, your surroundings will disappear among all things until it is too late and you simply get caught out over and over again. Killing is a part of the game, but don't let it consume you.

A generally good place for shrooms while being on the Top Side team is this simple triangle formation. This will offer you some great defense both from the entrances to lane from the tri-bush turning the corner, along with also offering defense from the bushes and the river.

The good thing about these placements is the fact that they are not really anywhere near the minions pathing, so they will never be tripped, unless the minion waves are huge, causing minions to push out to the sides more.

If you end up getting ganked from the right side, you have a shroom that can slow them down as you run through the river, to escape around the corner back to your tower.

Vice versa of the previous image, is the mirror set up on the opposite side of the lane, when you are starting on the Bot side team.

This side is a little less free as we don't have a tri-bush over here, but we still have the ability to utilize our shrooms as a defense coming from the river and also coming from the bushes.

Even those these are meant to be used for defense, if you're on the opposite side, they become offensive shrooms for when they try to place a vision ward or run away from you.

The addition to the alcove does make certain match-ups annoying to deal with, specifically champions like , and any other champion with lock down or gap close.

If you do not currently have vision or at the very least a shroom placed in the bushes you will fail to notice them until you walk into the gank.

These shrooms offer a way to chase around the alcove as they try to avoid you when you do not have a vision to see them. Your shrooms placed near their tower can catch them, if they escape.

These shrooms may be very close together, but that's fine. Ideally you don't need a shroom on the bottom right side. This is normally where our vision wards are going to be placed to grant a lot more vision for the river and a bit more into the entrance towards the tri-bush.

If an enemy enters from the river or the tri-bush they will trip in a straight line the shrooms against the wall. You can see more detail about this specific interaction in the linked video below.

It will help you understand the meaning behind "auto-pathing" into our shrooms.

These two shrooms single handedly will protect you more than any other placement so long as you are starting on the Top side team. It offers both vision and awareness when someone is pathing top side. Pop the blast cone over wall.

If they enter towards the blast cone you will see them, if they enter from the river entrance it will warn you they are near top side, but not that they want to path towards top side every time.

Once again if you want a much more in-depth explanation check out the video below as it goes into a few tips and tricks about finer details.

VIDEO REFERENCE: TEEMO SHROOM PLACEMENTS

It doesn't matter if you are on the Bot or Top side team. You can benefit greatly from this trick. Bouncing wards while being aggressive or defensive under this tower is a huge benefit.

Looking at this image you can use the radius of the vision ward to guide you in how to properly bounce it through the wall and into the bushes.

The linked video below, goes into more detail.

Most players that want to ward the tri-bush tend to place the ward directly in the bush. This can actually puts you at a huge risk as you are visible to anyone currently waiting in the bushes to gank. If they have CC you're going to get caught. So we instead bounce it through the wall which allows us to be further away and out of vision.

The linked video below, goes into more detail.

This ward is not used very often in an actual game due to it's vast difficulty and set-up time.

You can bounce a ward from the river right into the tri-bush which grants you very deep and powerful vision for someone who consistently ganks from Gromp side, like or .

There is no video reference, as it's not used ever due to how difficult it is to make happen.

If you're currently taking dragon, or even if you're invading with an ally like during the early game you can bounce a ward over the wall right into the bushes behind the pit, very useful for when you want to catch someone out or get vision at a safe distance.

There's no video reference, it's not used often.

Just like Dragon pit, you can also bounce a ward over the wall into the bushes behind it.

Once again these specific ward placements are really not used too much with Teemo because his 's offer enough range or bounce to do it without the need for ward tricks.

It is useful to know for if you ever play anything other than Teemo. But why would you do that?

VIDEO REFERENCE: VISION WARD PLACEMENTS

We don't normally take unless we feel like we need to play more objectively and know we don't have much kill potential in lane.

You can use while invisible to escape to safety, so long as they have no displacement skills or while their displacement skills are down.

This interaction was changed sometime back in Season 8, when they made some adjustments.

Don't forget that if you're currently being swept by you will want to move around as much as possible without clicking enemies, wards or minions while you're avoiding skills.

You can move around while in stealth, most people don't really do anything but waste time trying to kill you. While on this topic I'll inform you that 's do not reveal Teemo.

Sometimes, it's better to play your luck and enter into stealth in hopes that people will not sweep you and leave, if you noticed that you are about to be focused by a 4 or even a 5 man.

Running away isn't always the best option, nor is trying to fight your way through more than 4 people, unless you are mega fed with burst.

Do try to keep this in mind for your games.

One often ignored strategy with is his ability to an enemy champion that is auto attack reliant, this lets you stealth.

This is one of the best strategies often used against, , & . So long as their main stuns / abilities have been used you can just stand still after blinding them.

You also need to take into account minion aggro, if they are hitting you, it will prevent your stealth.

While it isn't advised. You can bait people with your passive by just... being an annoying "rat".

Popping out of the bushes and out of stealth while laughing. There is a very high chance that someone with a lock down CC or displacement skill will blow it trying to catch you an reveal you.

It just might give you the opening you need.

Often times there are some very funny plays with and certain champions.

You really should give stealth plays more credit. It can literally save your life, while getting kills.

In this case, 's (R) will push Teemo and if you are pushed out of the bushes you are revealed. But he did it over the wall which had no vision. So we stay visible until we land on the other side, which ultimately is what saved us.


A freeze is used to keep yourself safe or to further dominate the lane if you're winning an being ganked. Keeping 4 more enemy minions alive is useful for champions without killing or zoning pressure against you especially with no wave control. You become safe under the veil of your tower & can harass freely as they try to CS. While making sure to thin out minions/keep them alive long enough for your next wave to freeze them in case your tower messes it all up. So long as they have 4 minions alive more than your minions. It will remain frozen until you shove it back out, otherwise by default it will force your minions to grow in size and keep growing uncontrollably forcing a slow-push. It's a horrible feeling, try not to get in this position like Fiora.
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A slow push is used to slowly apply pressure to the enemy, setting up kills, setting up dives and setting up sieges which help prevent yourself from being killed due to your minions being larger in size. You simply make sure you always have 1 more minion than them to build up while last hitting the rest. It's amazing to have them turn and fight to defend you especially while in passive since they can still aggro so long as they are near you and the enemy can use some form of ability to damage you. It's a defensive layer / pressure which causes you to get ganked more often, which is what you want, you want your allies to acquire Drake or towers.
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A fast push or shove is simply killing things quickly to push it under their tower. They may have roamed or backed to base due to poke without Teleport or you may simply want to roam. So you'd want to fast push to prevent them from acquiring a vast amount of EXP upon return if you are very close to their tower. The tower can help clear them out, primarily cannon and melee minions since they are the most valuable. You'd want to roam/return to base after having shoved your wave to retain as many of their minions as possible upon returning to the lane, their minions will turn around into your favor due to their waves being larger and slow-pushing, so long as you keep last hitting. This is great after a slow push has built up. If the enemy has stuck you in a freeze while permanently zoning you, you can't do anything, the only thing that you can do is ask politely for your jungler to help break free, or don't get in this position in the first place.
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Zoning is very simple concept, it's when the enemy is being pressured away significantly from obtaining any CS or gaining EXP from dying minions. If you can get in between them and their minions. If they try to move forward to grab the CS you back off while punishing them from range for making that mistake. This would cause them to go back to base, allowing you to crash the wave further preventing EXP and CS while they walk back if they do not have Teleport. This can cripple any top laner. It's done when you're ahead mostly.
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While playing as Teemo, you must understand. You shouldn't be standing still for extended periods of time, move around and utilize bushes so you gain both the ability to use passive while moving and be less of a target for skillshots. If you are not focusing on CS or poking champions you really shouldn't be standing still. You can clearly see the difference in utilization of Teemo's passive and his mobility being used while being protected by bushes and zigzagging. If an enemy were to gank, you would have nothing to fear as you are able to flee through bushes or wait them out in stealth if it is possible to do so. Please utilize this well.
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is an underappreciated skill. It can be used both defensively and offensively depending on the situations. There are a lot of unique interactions with enemy champions and allies alike. Let's talk about these interactions so that you can fully understand the scope of it's versatility.

If you stand still for 1.5 seconds you will enter stealth. Enemy champions can not see you, hear you nor damage you, unless they have specific skill-shots like here. If you take damage you will glow white for a moment to enemies, giving away your location. The only thing that can reveal us is a hard CC displacement, in this case . 's will also not reveal you but will highlight you allowing for a champion to land skill shots.

Often times you can pull off some amazingly lucky plays with your passive alone. In this case the Zed's going to kill us, so we abuse his (R)'s weakness of not being able to damage us while it is channeling so that we can enter stealth to plan our escape after having blinded his auto.

There are plenty of other plays you can make defensively with this playstyle. So if you know you're going to die, what do you have to lose?

Utilizing this ability in the laning phase early game can be extremely effective, the attack speed can help with CSing or trading.

Another often ignored thing is using the passive to set up ambushes when you pretend to leave the lane or roam when enemies are low HP.

This allows you to wait for them to extend past you or into a shroom before assassinating them.

Teemo's passive is not limited to just Teemo.

Both & can benefit from it.
They will not break Teemo's stealth when Shen uses his (R) nor Yuumi when she uses her (W), what's more is they will both remain invisible.

This can really turn a losing battle into your favor if you managed to get behind their frontline.

is our primary burst, while running a build like or coupled with . This ability deals a tremendous amount of damage if built properly. It's used as a natural ADC counter. unless they have purchased .

with it's duration of 1.5 to 2.5 seconds can also prevent anyone who is a basic attacking champion to miss entirely. However, you would never want to just spam this ability as it will drastically drain your mana, something which really can not spare much of. It's a great offense, but also an amazing defense against champions that try to all in you level 1-2 like , & . We'll normally start (Q) against them over (E).

While enemy champions are under the effect of , their abilities that empower their basic auto attacks will fail to connect or deal damage. This can be an absolute lifesaver in the late game against certain late game scalers like , & if you ended up in a position where you were going to be killed. You can blind them and go stealth by standing still and not reacting while they try to kill you when their main skills are down.

as stated will prevent enemy champions from dealing empowered damage to us. This also prevents champions from using status effects like stuns, silences & slows.

, , , & or 's empowered knock up after his hook. There are plenty of other champions. Blinding the correct champion at the right time, can save you or your allies.

is one of Teemo's weaker skills. It doesn't really do too well in the game these days because of mobility creep. It's hard to avoid being hit by the basic abilities compared to previous seasons, however, it's often ignored as a first or second max. It's pretty huge into bruisers and tanks.

's is very lackluster and one of the more underwhelming skills in his kit.

Once you take damage from any source (aside from minions) you will lose all bonus movement speed. So the idea is to never get caught in the first place which is something that is difficult with how much mobility creep is in the game.

You can activate the ability to gain a bonus in movement speed double of what the passive is. This is countered if we've been slowed recently.

will normally be maxed every game. It's our primary source of damage. The more points it has, the better we CS and deal damage to enemy champions on-hit and over time. Play practice tool game without putting a single point in (E) and try to CS after putting one into it. You'll understand.

Teemo has good synergy with many of his core runes. The reason for this is due to the way his poison interacts, extending each rune in a way.

Auto attack an enemy with an activation rune like for example in this case and you can double activate her for free poke.

So long as you have poisoned them run to pick her up, it's damage that won't provoke minions. So instead of having to constantly attack to activate it, all you have to do is make sure you poke once, pick her up and repeat the process.

You can poison multiple targets so long as you keep switching between them. is considered an "on-hit" applied effect.

Acquiring will spread your poison which is amazing for split pushing as it's better clear than wasting 's which could have been utilized as defense. It does not apply effects like . It will spread & .

can be a double edged sword. It's important for you to understand that if you hit an champion and try to poke them again while under tower, you wait 4 seconds to poke if you have to enter tower range, otherwise you have a high chance of being struck by the tower.

This is unnecessary damage you are taking, which will also deactivate 's passive.

's primary use is for map control. It lasts for a maximum of 5 minutes which is a massive amount of vision & time when used properly and placed in ideal locations, especially if the enemies are not clearing them out effectively around objectives like and .

During the laning phase what you're looking for is places that will slow the enemies advances towards you, while avoiding minions.

Unexpectedly placed shrooms are usually the best, allowing you to lure your opponents towards them, positioning yourself so that they run in the direction that you want them to go.
It's used as a defense as well as offense so long as you know how to manipulate their pathing.

One of the most powerful assets to Teemo is his ability to infinitely bounce his shrooms.

This can be huge late game if you have a section to bounce off of to make some objective plays which could even net you or push the the enemy team off long enough for your teammates to make a play or to get them to back off preventing it or even stealing it.

makes ganking so much easier. Since we do not have any innate ability to slow or lock enemy champions down. You could take over it. Unfortunately it doesn't offer anything for your allies, as it is a summoner for dueling. Unless your entire teams pure CC take Chilling.

Playing Teemo in the jungle can be difficult, this is for certain. You need to be at the top of your game. Understand how to track your opponents clear and where they are most likely going to show up. You'd have to match them and help your teammates out, or simply try to take objectives elsewhere. If you spend too much time ganking and not enough time farming in between you will quickly notice you are 2-3 levels behind finding it impossible to catch up.

Before you even start with your clear, you might want to consider taking if you would like to apply more vision pressure early game while playing with as your primary as the extra damage you gain early on can help with clearing if you're not capable of getting kills or assists during the early game with . It's a personal preference for each, but each benefit a specific type of playstyle, is my preferred choice.

Vertical jungling is when someone takes either their Red or Blue, then instead of going to their second buff on the other side of the map (Horizontally) they instead go (Vertically) through the river to take the enemies jungle if they have the capacity to do so, all so they can focus on one side of the map. It's especially useful for instances where you are invaded early game and have no ability to take over your red/blue. It would be wise to do the same by sneaking into their mirror side with your allies to clear their jungle to match their early invade, otherwise you can fall behind severely.

While playing Teemo jungle, you always want to start on your red side. The reason for this is due to the fact of how squishy we are as Teemo. We can kite and blind a lot of the damage from early camp clears. But red buff will grant us a lot of passive HP regeneration and damage allowing us to clear just a tiny bit faster to stay in the jungle for ganks and possible invaders. However, if you do get invaded and they won't leave, just give it up and try to invade with your allies on the enemies red.

You can still clear the early game jungle equally as good as Red when starting Blue, but you have a very high chance of being invaded in your other jungle.

HIDING RED BUFF IN THE OPPOSITE BUSHES

Once you have taken red head towards your and kill them while kiting. You never want to stand still and fight, you want to kite and move out of their way as not take damage.

Utilize your to blind and run past the large one.

Out of all the jungle camps, still grants some of the most EXP.

We clear at level 2. Previously we could only clear it at level 4. You will need red buff and smite. Start by attacking each individual mini-raptor once then crimson with an AA > AA > Q > Smite while kiting.

You have to understand, if you're not kiting (moving while attacking) then you're not going to be able to clear many camps at all, and will most likely die.

Straight after finishing you would want to head right over to your , unless you can apply pressure mid-lane, while also keeping in mind you could have gotten invaded.

Remember to ward over the wall early in the river and ping assistance if this does happen. You want to continue kiting the camps around to reduce damage taken.

Once you have slain this camp, it's time to move over to the which should now spawn.

HIDING BLUE BUFF IN THE OPPOSITE BUSHES

is a very crucial objective for you and your team, not only does it offer a lot of vision of the river, it also offers a lot of EXP and gold and movement speed through the ring it spawns, which can really save you later in a fight or if you get caught out. If you let the enemy take both, you'll be set back a very large amount. Thankfully while playing as Teemo we can safely "trick" scuttle into the wall of the or effectively making it stop moving all together while zoning them from trying to capture it since we're between them.

HIDING BLUE BUFF IN THE OPPOSITE BUSHES

Unless you have need to assist your allies when you finish you will now finish your first clear, so head back to take on the last two camps. First and foremost Teemo can blind the first two attacks that sends our way, it was finally reverted back to how it originally was with season 11.

You can kite him a little distance as doing so delays his attacks which will allow your poison to deal damage while you mitigate any additional and unnecessary damage. Once you've finished, head towards the .

It's quite easy to deal with wolves, just kill the smaller of the three first.

They will deal significantly less damage than other camps this way.

Once finished it's time to back to base for your purchases of a with . This will increase our clear speed tremendously.

It's not exactly easy to tell you what you should be doing after your first clear because every game is different. You may have been invaded, your allies might all be shoved into the enemies towers, and there may be nothing you can do for the early game but farm until you get back in while helping allies when it is in your best interest, not when everyone is behind. Adjust & adapt your strategies and playstyles as the games change.

So with this in mind, you need to really just think about the situation you are in currently and adapt to that game. If allies are shoved in under tower, get some ganks in especially if you have been tracking the enemy jungler and know he is going to be somewhere else. If they are all shoved into the enemies towers then try to invade a bit and farm / contest dragon. This current season is really not in favor of Teemo jungle.

Understanding the enemies pathing can benefit you greatly, because it allows you to stop them from attempting to get a kill and helping your allies snowball in return or at the very least go even. It's not like everyone is cut out to be a jungler, there is a lot of responsibility to helping allies and tracking while also keeping yourself safe from invaders / understanding your limits. Ultimately, try to best to do what you can.

Primarily TOP and BOT lane are the easiest lanes to assist, as mid lane is a usually a coin flip and often filled with assassins or burst mages with a lot of hard lockdown CC, once if fed are nearly impossible to help with. So depending on how well your mid is doing be they feeding, winning or going even. You can often make the decision to help or ignore their lane completely. You should never help a losing lane, help winning lanes.

Playing in the jungle can be stressful. You actively need to be looking for ways to help your team. This could be to get them fed or ahead or to get a kill for yourself, but you also must understand that if your ally is 2 levels behind and losing, no amount of you helping them will do anything for them but reset their gold.

They can not help you help them, so look elsewhere. If you don't have a bot lane or mid lane but a front line fighter or tank who is doing well then help them get out of the laning phase and help transition them to helping allies. Make it to the mid or late game while doing everything you can to help them help your team. This could be as an engage or simply catching someone out. It's difficult to take on fed assassins & mages.

When you are going in, make sure they are ready for the gank. If they aren't ready then there is no reason to go in. Respond to them with pings and go in when they are ready or back off if they ping you that they are not. You also need to make sure they're willing to help you help them. If they are about to die, there really isn't any point for them to go into someone with 50%+ HP unless they have the sustain / combo to pull it off, because quite frankly ganks are a team effort. He's screwed if he ends up going in alone.


There isn't any "better" or "best" runes to choose from. Generally it's all based on personal preference. Some people really like playing one form, as opposed to others who prefer another. Electrocute and Grasp of the Undying are good examples because one is for bursting & the other is to survive burst. Both can still build straight into damage, but Electrocute is more beneficial with that. Regardless of what your friends or "coaches" tell you, Teemo is extremely versatile and can play pretty much anything, and isn't restricted to sticking with one single rune or build. There are plenty of Diamond, Master, and Challenger Teemo players who run more than one rune page all with relatively good success, it's not the runes or items. It's their ability to play well under any circumstance, this goes the exact same for you. Certain Teemo players can stomp anyone regardless of which runes they choose, but others, especially new players, may have a very hard time with someone like Darius, Irelia, or even a Tryndamere. Switching their runes around can become extremely resourceful. Teemo is not restricted to playing one specific way. He isn't a Veigar. There is nothing in his kit forcing or restricting him from going straight AD or TANK. It's not as effective as AP in the long run, since he does scale massively with AP, but it is still an option for those specific types of players. Though I would highly advise you to stick with the general AP builds until you find something that works well in your current ranking.
A detailed video of all of our current primary and off-meta runes.

IN-DEPTH SUMMON AERY

is an offensive rune in which you can relentlessly poke out your opponent while also focusing on CS. compliments this rune greatly, as the damage over time will allow you to reset her, sending her flying in the enemies face once more, unlike damage this will not draw the aggro of minions allowing you to chase through minions without the fear of taking damage. Many websites will tell you that this rune is the best, period. This is not actually true, it's just the introductory rune for every new and returning players to get them into the playstyle of Teemo.

Keep this in mind as this is most effective when you run towards the enemy, as you have to meet Aery half way in order to take full control over this advantage. Simple things like the enemy hiding in a bush, make this useful since we just have to hit them once and pick her up for free damage and that's really all there is to it with this specific runes playstyle.

This rune allows you to constantly poke them to utilize her ability to fly out and strike. You would by default be grabbing the , with due to the nature of this rune not having that great of a late game scaling compared to other burst and scaling runes.

You can gain either more sustain with the handy secondary rune or the extra true damage with the more preferred rune to give yourself more of an edge against champions who have no ability to get in close to trade or to take less damage and heal back in an even trade if you do decide on taking the first rune in place of this option.

I would advise you to never go for bush plays or rather keep them to a minimum. The reason is pretty plain and simple if you have a anywhere near you, and an enemy is nearby will fly out and hop, skip and jump right back to your very location which can give you away in an instant. A good player will notice this and run you down so long as they can actually damage you or pull you out of stealth. A less than knowledgeable player will just ignore you entirely.

IN-DEPTH PHASE RUSH

MANAFLOW BAND

Transcendence

Absolute Focus

Scorch

Gathering Storm

What about the greyed out runes?

IN-DEPTH ELECTROCUTE

IN-DEPTH DARK HARVEST

IN-DEPTH HAIL OF BLADES

Cheap Shot

Taste of Blood

Ghost Poro

Eyeball Collection

Ravenous Hunter

Ultimate Hunter

What about the greyed out runes?

IN-DEPTH PRESS THE ATTACK

LESS IN-DEPTH FLEET FOOTWORK (INSANE)

Triumph

Presence of mind

Legend: Alacrity

Coup De Grace

Cut Down

What about the greyed out runes?

IN-DEPTH GRASP OF THE UNDYING

Demolish

Second Wind

Bone Plating

Overgrowth

What about the greyed out runes?

IN-DEPTH GLACIAL AUGMENT

Magical Footwear

Minion Dematerizalizer

Approach Velocity

What about the greyed out runes?

What about RUNE-SHARDS?

vs is a frequently argued debate. Some prefer Refillable healing all game saving you gold for two uses. Some prefer the slightly greater healing from normal potions.

Ultimately for the price you're going to get more HP from 3 's than you are in comparison to Refillable. However, with you're going to get an constant supply of sustain every time you go back to base to refill it. The upgrade is normally not worth purchasing due to the fact that most rune/item synergies were changed in pervious seasons.

As previously stated, this potion isn't really worth picking as a first item nor is it really worth upgrading into from a as it's only synergy is with and (Q) or and (R). It's okay to upgrade it, if you're extremely fed early, but you do have many better options like HP or AP damage items, which helps you out more than a measly low amount of sustain & burning damage.

is one of the best starter items for Teemo period, in pretty much every single situation. You gain a large amount of damage increase throughout all of your abilities especially while also gaining mana sustain and more on-hit damage to minions, you also will get a nice solid chunk of HP. Deal more damage and CS more effortlessly.

is basically the exact same item as the biggest difference, however, is the lack of HP, On-hit & mana sustain. Despite this, if you manage to stack it fully. becomes one of the strongest AP scaling items in the game for you to snowball with. It's ultimately a risky item to take as dying losing your stacks which you need 25 to fully scale.

unlike the other starter items, does nothing but help you survive. It's meant to heal you after taking damage, but with no offensive stats whatso ever. It's the common choice into heavy poke champions, while playing the rune . You could take it with other runes, but it's ideally only for & which is often a Grasp game for us.

is similar in regard to . You gain a decent amount of sustain, and HP, but you don't have any AP scaling whatso ever, and only gain 8 AD. It will be harder to kill people through but if they start building magic resistance, you shouldn't have much problem in damaging them, early. It doesn't have much synergy outside of for sustain.

's main goal is to poke as much as you can all throughout early. It can be sold later in the game if the game has gone on for far too long for alternatives that grant you something else. We already have enough vision with our to cover the vision portion late game. You should never opt for this item into a very heavy poke lane as it will be nearly impossible to fully benefit from it.

's main goal is to help your ally as much as you can all throughout the early game by last hitting minions with each stack. It can be sold later in the game if the game has gone on for far too long for alternatives that grant you something else. In comparison to you are granted a severe lack of mana sustain for a more defensive playstyle, throughout early game.

will increase your overall damage drastically in everything you do because of the flat 18 magic pen. It will not protect you, in any way shape or form compared to the other defensive option. It's seen on pretty much every build and stacks very well with full AP. Be sure to use the other options when you really need defensiveness. It's makes no sense to build for greed if you die too fast.

is an amazing option while playing as it makes stacking and raising your attack speed a breeze, along with kiting / properly CSing more effectively very early on. If you're playing any of the other runes, you just do more with so it wouldn't be as beneficial for the main use which is split-pushing and dueling bruisers / tanks.

will help you in those tough games where you are going up against a lot of AP with a lot of hard CC like , or , otherwise another MR item would be much preferred. It's not a good choice if it's just one champion that has heavy AP or CC. The extra tenacity these offer will help to reduce their effects slightly while raising our already low MR greatly.

will protect you against a lot of champions who are adept in dealing BASIC auto attacks while also not dealing much on-hit from items like or , On-Hit is completely ignored so don't buy it into . Champions like , , and even . It's not exclusive to only them, if you find yourself against more empowered attackers.

will mostly help you negate . It is a unique effect that is stack-able with granting you a total of 81%% temporary resistance to his and allowing you to get away. You use these boots to survive his late game , due to the bonus movement of (W) active & . I wouldn't suggest for you to take it for any other reason other than this.

's main purpose is granting us a good solid amount of Attack Speed along with consistent CSing to transition into poking the enemy champions while laning. It's great for dealing poke damage, extended fights and burst while complimenting and 's on-hit. It's one of the best items that power spike him into the early-mid game. It falls of late game.

an get a nice damage increase to champions with a lot of HP. It's always built into into the late game even if you decided to go for a different mythic as shrooms are extremely resourceful for your late game control and defense even if they all have . Alternatively you can take in place of for (R) & (Q) damage.

is basically like but the polar opposite of pure damage. It's a solid defensive shroom orientated item, that really helps you deal with champions who are adept at bursting, like , , . So if you're currently losing a lane, you'd be much better building into this before anything else. It stacks very well with 's burn.

is an absolutely necessary item to prevent enemy champions with a massive amounts of sustain, from doing just that, sustaining. This has become more mandatory in basically every game as everyone has some form of sustain now'a'days. This could be through skills or just items in general, especially & & .

is a very powerful item for Teemo when fed early game after purchasing . Teemo can abuse it with W-E, Q-E, or R-E if given enough time to reset the (2.5) cooldown. Since Teemo's basic auto damage is On-Hit and scales with AP, it's going to melt anyone on one combo when combined with, , & before mythic item.

's main use is straight up high ability haste and a replacement for boots into the late game. You will get a -15 movement speed in comparison, but it's in general one of the best items to trade off for boots if the game goes on for too long. It can be taken in synergy with boots, but there are often better items to be taken in place of it, especially if you are being one shot or locked down.

coupled together with all of his other core items like , as well as items like will see tremendous amounts of damage increase. It is, however, not an item you would build first rather, until you have other items to compliment it. So with this in mind it's normally a 3rd-4th purchase on many builds or a final purchase on others.

is often only meant for champions who have a lot of magic resistance. If you are up against a composition of squishy champions with no bruisers or tanks, this item will only add 15 Magic Penetration which obviously isn't a lot, so in that case you would be better off building other items instead for more damage. Item's it's great against are & .

is a core item and has the function of granting you sustained damage and true damage once you're in combat for some time. It has synergy being paired up with or more preferably due to the amount of damage and sustain you can put out with it while in an extended fight. It can be fully activated through poison or being hit by champions.

is a core item and the best burst period. It compliments our ability to kite due to the bonus movement of 15% for activating the burst every 5 seconds so long as you hit (R) and (Q) at the same time. It's amazing with and due in fact to their burst nature.
active making for some terrifying one shots into the late game with (Q) -> (E) when fed.

is a core item, the difference is it's defensive burst. You are granted some HP, a burst of movement on damaging enemy champions. The main innate difference is having no magic penetration and 40s CD. It's got the same synergy as Luden's, just weaker. If the enemy composition is extremely squishy but they can still one-shot you, you can choose between, glass or defensive burst.

offers one thing that Teemo has never been able to apply, hard CC while granting some moderate HP / AP and mana. It's great for those who enjoy escapes or catching someone out in the middle of a roam, or for those who enjoy playing a Teemo with or . It's great at making it hard to chase or escape. Great into or other mobility creeps.

is a decent off-meta item like that gives you slows to catch up to your enemies, giving you a lot of defenses and health, along with a bit of damage and wave-clear. If you're somebody who grew up with Teemo in the beginning with builds, this is the closest build you will ever get to season 5. You lose the ability to enter passive with champions nearby.

is an off-meta item for fighting people in a 1v1 with auto attacks, while split pushing mainly . It grants you a large base Lifesteal when you fall below 30% HP. If you do fall below 30% not only does your sustain increase but you are protected by a 250-700 shield for 3 seconds. If you can't auto because you're CC'd then you can't sustain. is superior.

is an off-meta build for shredding bruisers or even HP tanks with or . True damage works on minions and champions, but will not activate on turrets. Similar to that , if you can't auto attack it's pointless to play this build. You are moderately going to be countered if you try to fight someone with , since it reflects.

is a great item to acquire if you are going up against a few AP champions who have little to no CC. This item works extremely well with & as it provides scaling on-hit magic damage making late game split-pushing and team fights more impactful. Ideally played with alongside as other builds have poor/no synergy.

is all about split-pushing. It benefits from on-hit items and attack speed builds by allowing you to target three targets at once rather than one. Teemo is an on-hit champion. will apply on-hit, before it applies DoT which synergizes well while building into AP scaling.

is devastating if you find yourself in a situation where you are dominating, and have need for even more AP scaling than defensiveness. 's 35% scaling makes this much greater. It will also offer 100 extra HP and 10% movement speed which is great since it's always been the gamble item that was meant to give damage at the cost of everythelse.

is a great defense / sustain amplifier. If you manage to get the Ocean soul or have chosen as your Mythic then this will have a solid increase the sustain even further. It is a very situational item and not at all a mandatory pick. Ultimately it is up to you if you do want to build into it, but I tend to build into it every game I see Ocean Soul, especially into AP compositions.

is a one time spell-shield which will prevent CC from an ability or ability damage of any kind from hitting us, before going on a 40s cooldown. This item is usually chosen if we get fed and want to keep our lead against a heavy AP enemy composition with a lot of CC. is pretty much the same item, but has a lot of HP which is a better defensive alternative to .

is a stasis item allowing for us to become invulnerable for a duration of 2.5s to prevent all damage about to or currently afflicting us. If you save from becoming a and build straight into first. You can make plays once people drop all of their abilities trying to kill you, as you can use both for a double 5s stasis.

may sound like a weird item to build into on Teemo, but hear what I have to say about it. It's an amazing item in-between fights, and really good if you don't run sustain runes/builds. It's only ever thought about being purchased into the very late game with . Forget about this item if they have champs like , etc.

isn't at all a good item in terms of synergy with Teemo. It's only used for countering one specific champion, . But even then it's not even necessary I would highly consider you play around bushes for when he misses his pull so he activates (R) on you near a bush, you can just wait out the duration while in passive. is also another champion.

doesn't have much synergy on Teemo in general, however, this item offers a ton of protection while alone and splitting potential mid-late game. This could be huge in low-elo with or which can make it difficult for enemies to take you on in a 1v1 or 1v2. , and , would be your first items.

Take mid-late game, to deny vision. Playing as Teemo comes with the perk of not having to keep your 's outside of the laning phase since 's naturally act as vision themselves every 11-4 seconds. There really is no need to hold onto shrooms outside of 1.

You would be taking in games where you have demolished them and want to take full control over the entire map, permanently. Another reason would be to never face check, to grant vision over walls where they might all be stacked around objectives like .

There is no when or why. You will always be purchasing extra 's while you have enough gold to do so. It's important to know where the enemy currently is, or even to grant permanent vision for you and your team for up to 20 minutes specifically in the two locations listed below.

Buying a really early in the game can be massive for your vision and ability to track enemy jungler for your whole team. While chasing someone into bushes & while your 's on cooldown, don't face check. Grant yourself vision with control wards.

Replace the current if someone is taking it down, it's free EXP and GOLD for them, deny them it.

The two placements on the map are also the most ignored placements in the early game. You can all benefit from this information.

They have the potential to last for up to 20 minutes before being taken down granting large vision score for a single ward placement.

It is a gamble and doesn't always work out the way you hope for it to. It's especially very useful in low elo, due to the fact that people play a lot more poorly without seeking to clear vision.

You can purchase one control ward if you figure you won't need potions.

The following map will give you a rough idea as to where you should be placing your 's all throughout the game, these are heavily travelled locations.

Please remember that Shrooms should be placed 3-4 (R) shroom radius's away. You can place the (R) skill AoE as a reference to get yourself in the mindset of Teemo.

The video linked below goes into much better detail.

This is an amazing example of how utilizing 's poorly effects you an your allies.

You are not doing anything while doing this. It offers no vision, no real support for your allies or to catch enemy champions out anywhere.

Shroom's do not stack, they are refreshing the Slow/DoT, but this only benefits you if they reset it at the end of the current slow/dot.

Learn to save some shrooms for when you have the potential to roam the enemy jungle or even the riven to get some deep shrooms down.

It's good knowledge to know and to utilize.

If you place 's deep into the jungle, it has a higher chance of staying the entire duration or close to it's entire duration using it to it's fullest potential.

This can quite possibly catch someone out that is trying to flee, or warn an ally or even yourself of incoming danger. Don't be a dumb, take control.

If you take a look and compare the two maps, you can clearly see why people fear Teemo and purchase to hold us back.

I would like to start by saying, If you are going to play support. You support your ADC, don't run off and AFK Mid. You stay with your ADC and support other lanes when you can. Nothing good comes from trolling an entire playerbase.

The benefit of playing support is the mind games you can apply. Even if you are not in the lane anymore. People will be scared which allows you to roam across the map and apply pressure to other lanes when you can't impact bot lane.

However, if you just so happen to be paired up with an incompetent ADC one who refuses to do anything but farm under tower. Leave them. It may sound weird to go against what I previously said, but you have to understand.

If they are not working together with you to win that lane. You will lose it and die over and over again, so leave and go help out other lanes while roaming around. There's nothing worse than a bad ADC who is giving up in champ select.

While we play Teemo support, we're in a role where we are free to do whatever we want. We are not bound by the laws of CS, with this we can roam freely, stand still wherever we want & attempt to ambush people.

Bushes are our best friends in the bot lane, a little trick not many people use is the "Where is Teemo" game. You show yourself visible in a certain location, and run through the fog of war. This makes one assume you're still in bushes, when they come forward to CS they will hug the wall in between their support on top of you.

Once they have fallen for it, you would simply fight with your ally to get them or yourself the kill. It's as easy as that. It's a pretty basic trick, but the amount of times people fall for it is nothing short from astounding.

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is hands down, one of the best ADC champions to support as period. Jhin has everything he needs to to compliment us and our poke playstyle well. He has fantastic damage, along with traps that synergize well with 's basically making your bot lane a minefield.

Landing is normally enough for him to properly land his , which is when you would both begin your engage. Again, he is one of the best champions that synergizes well.

is an extremely aggressive champion with a very long reach with her auto attacks (650), this helps in keeping herself out of reach from most champions making it difficult to poke her in return.

What's more is she has her dash, helping her slow and flee or dash and chase enemies. The biggest synergy is her 's used defensively to help us put pressure through bush harass. She is a very solid high damage champion that can support our bush harass.

is an amazing quick trade champion, there are very few champions who can out trade him.

We are more about quick trades and returning to our bush harass once our is on cooldown. Even in extended fights he does extremely well with his high mobility and damage while we protect him the best we can, be this by blinding the ADC as he goes in or negating a stun.

He's a great and solid ADC to support due to his high trading play-style and mobility.

is a very strong champion from mid game, once she hits 6 and has .

So long as she is utilizing her properly to negate an important projectile like a ultimate or even a hook, you really shouldn't have much of a problem supporting her.

Once she hit's level 6, she normally has everything she needs to go in for an extended fight in which she blasts anyone with her (R) combo so long as they don't have hard CC to stop her mid channel.

is a wonderful yordle with a solid lane pressure, mostly always keeping waves shoved up to their tower or at the very least in the center of the lane throughout the early game. Which benefits us.

We never want to be pushed up under our own tower, just due to the nature of our own playstyle. We need bushes to properly abuse and so, we need a champion who is adept in pressuring. Tristana has her and as her escape and CC/finisher. A very solid ADC to support.

is not an ADC you say? It's true, but it is something that Teemo can support extremely well.

Veigar has the ability to lock down enemy champions with his cage. This prevents them from running away or even trying to turn into you allowing us to deal massive damage together as duo bot AP.

I've have never personally lost a bot game with Veigar as my APC, once his cage is down you basically both back off and play it safely while you poke from range until it's back up again for another engage.

It's no surprise. has been an absolute powerhouse as Support or ADC the past few seasons, mostly due to his disruption because of his invisibility along with his 's shenanigans.

Laning against him in any regard is an absolute nightmare. Couple that with 's and bush harass with and his boxes make entering bushes impossible leading to some very oppressive gameplay, which becomes more annoying when Teemo acquires 's. He's not often seen as an ADC, but if you managed to find yourself one, it's very solid duo to play with.

is a powerful APC or SUP when played together with something like or , so the synergy isn't as strong when we support him with because we lack CC. Despite this, his ability to lockdown and pull a target towards himself and to us is great similar to that of .

What's more is his ability to sustain through the lane with his innate passive when he does land his stun and strike the target. What makes him a good champion to support is his all in potential at level 6, massive sustain and a large amount of AoE burst.

has always been the most useless ADC to support in the laning phase period.
Farming under tower while missing every single (Q) he throws out while feeding into CC matchups.

I have never had more than 1% of Ezreal players playing well, even when double stacking tear was a thing. He is a late game champion, with an absolutely poor "safe" early game playstyle. No synergy.

He is a very powerful champion in high elo / pro play, but the average playerbase is not great.

is a very difficult champion to support most of the time, she has great poke from her but she doesn't have much of anything until level 6 to support herself outside of her AA slow.

The reason she is listed as a poor ADC to support is her lack of disengage early on with her (14) sec cooldown on , which becomes 4 secs late game but does little for your early game offense.

is a very strong late game ADC, however, like is primarily a champion that needs a support with lock down and engage so she that she can properly position and land her condemn stun.

She has very little for herself early on until she hits level 6. The early game tends to be a tower farm simulator, unless the enemy champions in Bot/Sup are not respecting the both of you.

The worst champions to face while you are supporting

Whether you are playing a game or going into an all out war, the fundamentals are always going to be the same.

If you have the knowledge of the enemy and also have knowledge of yourself, you will succeed in the vast majority of your games. If you have knowledge of yourself, but not of the enemy, then you'll bounce back and forth from victory and defeat. If you have knowledge of neither yourself nor of the enemy then you will succumb with each and every attempt you try to make. Read up on enemy champions, play them to grasp what they do before facing them fully.

Try to understand your flaws, your weaknesses and work on fixing them. Vice versa when facing an enemy, look for their weakness, what have they done wrong? No matter how big/small, capitalize on it and punish them.

A high level and well thought out plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. Strategy is important because the resources available to achieve these goals are usually limited, especially when it comes to competitively playing against disadvantages. Items, runes, positioning, warding, shrooming, utilizing everything while keeping multiple goals to fall back on. It's perfectly fine if one strategy doesn't work out, adapt & overcome them.

Being prepared for anything that could happen, even if it doesn't happen when you expected it to happen. You were prepared for it allowing you to be ready to react accordingly. Warding and setting up a minefield for your allies to retreat into or for the enemy to be flanked by. There is also building correctly instead of building due the greedy mindset of "If I have more damage, they will die faster!". Prepare for what you know you need before you need it.

There are a multitude of different ways to manipulate opponents into doing the things that you want them to do for your own benefit. Some of these forms may be more targeted towards mental manipulation "EZ" after every kill to cause someone to become angry enough to lose their cool and do everything to try and kill you and nothing else.

While others are more about actually controlling their movement allowing for you to lure them at specific angles where you want them to be guided. Enemy positioning and sudden changes in their behavior are big red flags that you're being manipulated to come closer to them or to run in a specific direction, so their allies can assist properly.


Ability Haste an how effective it is Cooldown reduction = Ability haste / (100 + Ability Haste). So, cooldown reduction = 69 / 169, which is comparable to 40,8% CDR from previous seasons. Maxing AH is pretty useless as the numbers become single digits. At this point you're going to be losing a severe amount of AP which is going to leave you dealing no damage. Yes, cool you have 5.47 second shrooms with the addition of Blue Buff, Ultimate Hunter & 4 Cloud Drakes at 218 ability haste which would be roughly 69% CDR. But for 1.20 seconds added to that by building a normal build, you gain back 529 AP. I will add that your (Q) at this point would be on a 3.77 or so second CD. Going up to 4 with a proper build. It's a waste to fixate yourself entirely on stacking ability haste, so long as you have 69 you're good to go, anything above this would be a waste. Math behind how Magic Penetration Works Magic penetration and magic resistance reduction work exactly like armor penetration and armor reduction. Magic penetration and magic resistance reduction are considered on the target champion in the following order: Magic resistance reduction, flat. Magic resistance reduction, percentage. Currently, there is no way for Teemo to gain any source of magic resistance reduction. Magic penetration, percentage: Void Staff Magic penetration, flat: Sorcerer's Shoes, Luden's Tempest *FLAT MAGIC RESISTANCE REDUCTION* Flat magic resistance reduction stacking stacks additively instead of multiplicatively. EXAMPLE: 20 magic resistance reduction reduces the target's resistance by 20, so a target with 30 magic resistance will be reduced to 10. (30 − 20 = 10) Flat magic resistance reduction can reduce a target's magic resistance below zero. EXAMPLE: if an enemy with 10 magic resistance has their magic resistance reduced by 25, the enemy will have −15 magic resistance. *PERCENTAGE MAGIC RESISTANCE REDUCTION* The target's magic resistance is multiplied by a percentage (100% − the listed reduction). Percentage magic resistance reduction stacks multiplicatively and is ignored if the target's magic resistance is 0. EXAMPLE: 20% magic resistance reduction multiplies the target's resistance to 80%, so a target with 30 resistance will be reduced to 24. (30 × 0.8 = 24) Percentage magic resistance reduction makes a bigger difference on targets with higher magic resistance. For instance, with 40% magic resistance reduction, a target with 200 magic resistance will lose 80 while a target with only 50 magic resistance will lose 20. *PERCENTAGE MAGIC PENETRATION* A target's magic resistance is treated as being multiplied by a % for purposes of damage calculation (100% − the listed penetration). Percentage magic penetration stacks multiplicatively and is ignored if the target's is 0 or less. EXAMPLE: 20% magic penetration causes the target to take damage as if its magic resistance was multiplied by 80%, so a target with 30 magic resistance will be treated as though it had 24 for purposes of damage calculation (the actual magic resistance value will not change.). Because the target's actual magic resistance value does not change, anything depending on it also doesn't change. Percentage magic resistance reduction makes a bigger difference on targets with higher magic resistance. For instance, with 40% magic resistance reduction, a target with 200 magic resistance will lose 80 while a target with only 50 magic resistance will lose 20. *FLAT MAGIC PENETRATION* The target's magic resist is treated as being reduced by an amount for purposes of damage calculation, but cannot be reduced below 0. Flat magic penetration stacks additively. EXAMPLE: 20 magic penetration causes the target to take damage as if its magic resistance was 20 less, so a target with 30 magic resistance will be treated as though it had 10 for purposes of damage calculation. The target's actual magic resistance value does not change. Because the target's actual resistance value does not change, anything else depending on it also doesn't change. special thanks to SOZANEK the artist that helped with visual content, I would highly suggest checking them out. The coders that helped fix broken code, and troubleshooting. Kata, Fruxo, Citric, Blue. The Teemo community for proof reading purposes and insights I may have missed. You.
Certain skins animations are extremely smooth whereas some skins are clunky and have a sense of delay if you play multiple skins for a long time you would have eventually noticed this. Despite what some people may say, it's true. The animations are clunky and it can make a huge difference in your ability to play.

Out of all the skins that I have and others have played, this is by far one of the clunkiest skins you can possibly play with on , requiring a lot of time to get used to in our opinions. However, if you're exclusively playing this skin an nothing else, you will not notice this issue since you're familiar.

We began to notice due to our On-hit play-styles becoming less viable over the seasons making this skin very attack speed reliant, to counter the animations wind up. It is often argued that the skin is fine and there is nothing wrong with it, but this is a biased opinion from people who only play this skin.

In comparison to and other skins, this is by far the best skin, not because of the skin itself but rather due to the animation and how smooth it is.

It's so smooth to the point where you never really cancel autos, again this is all down to preference you can play any Teemo skin and be great at it, but if you're having trouble with canceling auto attacks it normally comes down to skins and your experience with it, in this case how often you play it.

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Teemo Build Guide by Sovereign Kitten

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Choose Champion Build:

Runes: PRESS THE ATTACK

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Flash

Teleport

Flash

Ghost

Exhaust

Flash

Recommended Items

Items

Ability Order (E) MAX

Guerrilla Warfare (PASSIVE)

Blinding Dart (Q)

Move Quick (W)

Toxic Shot (E)

Noxious Trap (R)

Guerrilla Warfare (PASSIVE)

Blinding Dart (Q)

Move Quick (W)

Toxic Shot (E)

Noxious Trap (R)

Guerrilla Warfare (PASSIVE)

Blinding Dart (Q)

Move Quick (W)

Toxic Shot (E)

Noxious Trap (R)

Guerrilla Warfare (PASSIVE)

Blinding Dart (Q)

Move Quick (W)

Toxic Shot (E)

Noxious Trap (R)

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