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I know that a lot of people are going to disagree with it, but I don't care. My blog, my opinion. Deal with it.
Note: What follows are the opinions of a random Silver player. Feel free to whine and say I'm wrong because I'm Silver; I won't give a **** and will just laugh at you. Also don't ***** about the lack of coding, I couldn't be bothered.
[opinion]
Alright. To understand exactly why AD Teemo is so bad, you have to take a look at his stats and his kit.
H18: 1844 - Below average, although higher than many mages.
Hp5-18: 16.36 - Right in the middle.
M18: 920 - Pretty average.
Mp5-18: 14.6 - Below average.
AD18: 98.5 - Terrible; ninth lowest in the game. At least he beats Ashe.
Ar18: 81.5 - Actually quite high.
Mr18: 30 - Equivalent to all other ranged champions (bad).
Range: 500 - Very short.
AS18: 1.087 - Really good. Tied with Evelynn for third highest in the game, sitting behind Kennen, Ashe, and Tristana.
MS: 330 - Below average for a ranged champion.
So overall, his stats are mediocre. The exceptions are armor and attack speed, which are both really high. However, these don't make up for his low AD and range. Furthermore, he doesn't have the defensive stats to survive getting close enough in fights to actually hit things. So far, it's looking pretty bad for AD Teemo.
Onto his skills: Camouflage, Blinding Dart, Move Quick, Toxic Shot, Noxious Trap.
Camouflage: Other than hiding when the whole enemy team comes after you due to your global taunt, the only use for this is sitting by a mushroom, waiting to assassinate a low-health champion. Not the best passive, but it isn't the worst.
Blinding Dart: This is really strong. Good base damage, high AP scaling, and a powerful blind. This is what makes Teemo so good as dueling carries at most stages of the game.
Move Quick: Basically a passive Ghost you can activate for two Ghosts at once. A really good ability, although slows still suck.
Toxic Shot: This gives Teemo really nice poke in lane along with Blinding Dart, and surprisingly high DPS. It's nice for pissing people off when they want to recall.
Noxious Trap: Teemo's signature skill is a pain in the ***. It gives a little bit of vision and does a huge amount of damage when somebody steps on it. A very good skill overall, and it fits in with Teemo's pissing-people-off playstyle.
So his skills are really good. One would think this would make up for his subpar stats. One would be wrong. See, even though his skills are really powerful, there's once problem: they scale with AP, not AD. He doesn't have a single AD ratio on any of his skills. If you build AD, your Q is useful for the blind and nothing else, your E is useless, and your ult is bad. You can't even say his steroid makes up for this, because you have to stand still and do nothing for it to work. Hell, AP Teemo does similar damage with his auto-attacks, and still has skills that are useful outside of utility.
Well, there you go. I hope this blog convinces someone not to use AD Teemo. So drop your Runaan's Hurricane + Frozen Mallet + Blade of the Ruined King builds, and instead pick up the superior Liandry's Torment + Nashor's Tooth + Rabadon's Deathcap!
[/opinion]
That's all for now. I'll be back whenever I feel like it with whatever topic I feel like writing a blog about.
Note: What follows are the opinions of a random Silver player. Feel free to whine and say I'm wrong because I'm Silver; I won't give a **** and will just laugh at you. Also don't ***** about the lack of coding, I couldn't be bothered.
[opinion]
Alright. To understand exactly why AD Teemo is so bad, you have to take a look at his stats and his kit.
H18: 1844 - Below average, although higher than many mages.
Hp5-18: 16.36 - Right in the middle.
M18: 920 - Pretty average.
Mp5-18: 14.6 - Below average.
AD18: 98.5 - Terrible; ninth lowest in the game. At least he beats Ashe.
Ar18: 81.5 - Actually quite high.
Mr18: 30 - Equivalent to all other ranged champions (bad).
Range: 500 - Very short.
AS18: 1.087 - Really good. Tied with Evelynn for third highest in the game, sitting behind Kennen, Ashe, and Tristana.
MS: 330 - Below average for a ranged champion.
So overall, his stats are mediocre. The exceptions are armor and attack speed, which are both really high. However, these don't make up for his low AD and range. Furthermore, he doesn't have the defensive stats to survive getting close enough in fights to actually hit things. So far, it's looking pretty bad for AD Teemo.
Onto his skills: Camouflage, Blinding Dart, Move Quick, Toxic Shot, Noxious Trap.
Camouflage: Other than hiding when the whole enemy team comes after you due to your global taunt, the only use for this is sitting by a mushroom, waiting to assassinate a low-health champion. Not the best passive, but it isn't the worst.
Blinding Dart: This is really strong. Good base damage, high AP scaling, and a powerful blind. This is what makes Teemo so good as dueling carries at most stages of the game. Move Quick: Basically a passive Ghost you can activate for two Ghosts at once. A really good ability, although slows still suck. Toxic Shot: This gives Teemo really nice poke in lane along with Blinding Dart, and surprisingly high DPS. It's nice for pissing people off when they want to recall. Noxious Trap: Teemo's signature skill is a pain in the ***. It gives a little bit of vision and does a huge amount of damage when somebody steps on it. A very good skill overall, and it fits in with Teemo's pissing-people-off playstyle.So his skills are really good. One would think this would make up for his subpar stats. One would be wrong. See, even though his skills are really powerful, there's once problem: they scale with AP, not AD. He doesn't have a single AD ratio on any of his skills. If you build AD, your Q is useful for the blind and nothing else, your E is useless, and your ult is bad. You can't even say his steroid makes up for this, because you have to stand still and do nothing for it to work. Hell, AP Teemo does similar damage with his auto-attacks, and still has skills that are useful outside of utility.
Well, there you go. I hope this blog convinces someone not to use AD Teemo. So drop your
Runaan's Hurricane + Frozen Mallet + Blade of the Ruined King builds, and instead pick up the superior Liandry's Torment + Nashor's Tooth + Rabadon's Deathcap![/opinion]
That's all for now. I'll be back whenever I feel like it with whatever topic I feel like writing a blog about.
AP teemo will basically be squishier and needs to rely way to much on his ult. As AD teemo u have alot more tanky items and what i like the most, more ON HIT ITMES :3
So yeh maybe alot of people think AP teemo is better. But i can say 1 thing... AD teemo is defenitly strong and VERY viable. so yeh thats my opinion
Wait a second. The sorter says that
But yeah, he doesn't have enough range to be an ADC since he'll simply be harassed whenever he tries to CS.