Champion Stats
| Role | Marksman / Mage |
| Difficulty | |
| Blue Essence | 225 BE |
Why High-Elo Players Smurf with Teemo
Low elo players don't buy Sweepers (Oracle Lens). They will walk into your shrooms repeatedly, dying to poison before they even see you. They also fail to respect his level 1-2 poison damage, often losing half their HP to a simple AA-Q harass. A smurf can place shrooms in specific pathing locations (like jungle entrances and objectives) to create a guaranteed winning map state.
The Level 1 Cheese
First Blood Strategy
Start E (Toxic Shot). Build your poison damage and harass the enemy whenever they walk up to last hit. Level 2 with Q (Blinding Dart) allows you to completely stop their trade. Your early lane presence is notoriously annoying and effective at forcing early backs.
The 'Pay-to-Win' Skin Advantage
'Beemo' is the definitive smurf skin—the 'buzz' sounds and the bee aesthetic are purely tilting. 'Little Devil Teemo' is a high-tier 'truth' choice. 'Omega Squad Teemo' offers amazing special ops animations. Avoid 'Badger Teemo' as it's a basic recolor.
When They Ban Teemo
Backup Pick: If Teemo is banned,
Heimerdinger offers a similar 'summon-and-frustrate' profile.
Quinn for the ranged kiting and map pressure.
Singed for the 'run-away-and-poison' tilt gameplay.
Rune Setup
Best Runes: Press the Attack is the best choice for maximizing your 1v1 damage and kiting. Dark Harvest is an alternative for massive shroom-scaling. Secondary Sorcery with Manaflow Band and Transcendence to spam your shrooms more frequently.
Skill Priority
Order:
E → Q → WMax E first—it's your primary damage source and makes your auto-attacks a nightmare. Max Q second for the increased blind duration. Max W last as the movement speed is sufficient with levels.
Mastering Teemo's Kit
Blinding Dart. Teemo fires a dart that deals magic damage and blinds the target, causing their basic attacks to miss. This is your primary defensive and dueling tool.
Move Quick. Passive: Teemo gains movement speed if he hasn't been hit by a champion/tower. Active: He gains double the bonus for a short duration. Use this to kite and maintain distance.
Toxic Shot. Teemo's basic attacks deal bonus magic damage on hit and extra damage over time. This makes him one of the best harassers in the top lane.
Noxious Trap. Teemo tosses a mushroom that becomes invisible and explodes when an enemy walks over it, dealing damage and slowing. Use these as wards and zone control.
Matchup Tips
Easy Matchup (if played right). You can blind him every time he tries to E-AA you. Your poison will tick him down while he's in his R. Just play safely and don't get dove.
Easy Matchup. He has no way to reach you if you kite correctly. Save your Q for when he tries to Q-silence you. He will be forced to back or die to shrooms.
Hard Matchup. His ghouls and Maiden can out-push you and his cage (W) is a death sentence. You have to win the early poke or he will take your tower by level 7.
The Ego Check
WARNING: Stop wasting your Q for random poke! Save it for when the enemy tries to trade or engage. If you blind a Yi or Tryndamere at the right time, you win; if you waste it, you die. Also, don't just throw shrooms on top of the enemy—place them in the paths they *will* take. Also, remember to stay still to go invisible!
When to Queue Dodge
Dodge if facing heavy 'sweep' or 'long-range poke' comps with Rengar (who can jump on you) or Xerath who can destroy you from afar. Also dodge into Ryze or Cassiopeia who can out-damage and out-range your blind.
Teamfight Role
In teamfights, you are a zone-defense carrying machine. Pre-shroom the area around the objective. During the fight, focus on blinding the enemy's primary auto-attacker. Stay at the edge of the fight, using your W to reposition and your Q to peel. You are the hidden danger that turns a fight into a slow death.
The 'Disrespect' Build
Full AP 'Minefield' Teemo. Liandry's Anguish -> Demonic Embrace -> Rabadon's Deathcap. With this build, one shroom will take 70% of a squishy's health. It's hilarious to see an enemy flee from a fight only to die to a mushroom in a random bush. Maximum BM, high-risk.
Power Windows
Level 1-2 is your strongest 'piss-off' window. Level 6 is your map-control spike. Your biggest item spike is reaching Nashor's Tooth and Liandry's, which turns your auto-attacks and shrooms into massive threats.
Tilt Factor
Type 'Never underestimate the power of the Scout's code!' in all-chat after a shroom kill. Spam the 'laugh' emote while invisible near a low-HP enemy. The sight of a Teemo appearing from thin air to Q-Ignite is a psychological trigger for rage-quitting.
Recent Patch History
| Patch | Date | Type | Changes |
| V14.20 | Oct 9, 2024 | ADJUST | Base stats adjusted |
| V14.3 | Feb 7, 2024 | BUFF | Q buffed |
| V14.2 | Jan 24, 2024 | ADJUST | E nerfed, R buffed, Base stats adjusted |
| V14.2 | Jan 24, 2024 | ADJUST | E nerfed, R buffed, Base stats adjusted |
| V13.22 | Nov 8, 2023 | BUFF | Base stats adjusted |
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