League of Legends - Teemo Champion Strategy and Item Build Guide

Teemo

Basic Information

Champion Stats

Lore

Skills

Icon	Description
	Guerrilla Warfare If Teemo stands still and takes no actions for a short duration, he becomes Invisible indefinitely. If he’s in brush, Teemo can enter and maintain his Invisibility while moving. After leaving Invisibility, Teemo gains the Element of Surprise, increasing his Attack Speed for 3 seconds.
	Blinding Dart (Target Range: 680, Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 Mana, Cooldown: 8) ACTIVE: Deals 80/125/170/215/260 (+80% Ability Power) magic damage and blinds the target for 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 seconds.
	Move Quick (Cost: 40 Mana, Cooldown: 17) PASSIVE: Teemo’s Movement Speed is increased by 10/14/18/22/26% unless he has been damaged by an enemy champion or turret in the last 5 seconds.ACTIVE: Teemo sprints, gaining twice his normal bonus for 3 seconds. This bonus is not lost when struck.
	Toxic Shot (Target Range: 400, Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 Mana, Cooldown: 9)PASSIVE: Teemo’s basic attacks poison their target, dealing 10/20/30/40/50 (+30% Ability Power)magical damage upon impact and 6/12/18/24/30 (+10% Ability Power) magical damage each second for 4 seconds.
	Noxious Trap (Target Range: 400/650/900, Collision Radius: 60, Effect Radius: 200, Cost: 75 Mana + 1 Charge, Cooldown: 0.25, Recharge Time: 30/25/20) ACTIVE: Tosses a stored mushroom as a trap that detonates if an enemy steps on it, spreading poison to nearby enemies that slows Movement Speed by 30/40/50%, reveals them and deals 200/325/450 (+50% Ability Power) magic damage over 4 seconds. Traps last 5 minutes and take 1 second to arm and stealth. If a thrown trap lands on another trap, it will bounce up to 3/4/5 Teemos further before planting.Teemo forages for a mushroom every 0 seconds, but he is only big enough to carry 3 at once.

Strategy

• (E) Toxic Shot and (Q) Blinding Dart are standard Teemo abilities that makes him a good harass champion the laning phase, especially against melee champions.
• Spread your (R) Noxious Trap in the brushes or near the river to know in advance if someone is trying to visit your lane.
• Activating (W) Move Quick can sometimes put you at higher risk of dying. Instead, try to assess the situation and see if the enemies have a ton of stuns and slows to stop you even after using (W) Move Quick, as it doesn’t ignore crowd control effects.
• You can cheese enemy junglers and laners by placing (R) Noxious Trap near a chokepoint and Camouflaging. Make sure first that someone will pass through as to not waste your time waiting for an enemy to get baited.
• Placing a (R) Noxious Trap on objectives like Dragon and Baron is also a good strategy since you can see if someone stepped on the trap even inside the fog of war.

Runes & Masteries

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Summoner Spells

Top Lane		Mid Lane
Flash	Teleport	Ignite	Flash

Item Builds

Top Lane/ Mid Lane

Starter Items
Doran’s Ring	Total Biscuit of Rejuvenation	Warding Totem

Core Items
Nashor’s Tooth	Runaan’s Hurricane	Sorcerer’s Shoes
Liandry’s Torment

Nashor’s Tooth – Nashor’s Tooth is a perfect item for Teemo as it gives him attack speed, ability power, and on-hit magic damage. Moreover, Teemo will have more damage from his auto-attacks as Nashor’s Tooth stacks well with (E) Toxic Shot. 

Runaan’s Hurricane – Runaan’s Hurricane is a great item for Teemo as it gives him immense waveclear and farm potential.

Liandry’s Torment – Liandry’s Torment is a great item on Teemo because this item deals more damage when the enemy is slowed and (R) Noxious Traps slow enemies while dealing damage to them.

Full Build
Nashor’s Tooth	Liandry’s Torment	Luden’s Echo
Rabadon’s Deathcap	Runaan’s Hurricane	Sorcerer’s Shoes

Luden’s Echo – This item gives you increased movement speed and ability power. The passive on this item also allows you to proc your (R) Noxious Traps and (Q) Blinding Dart with more damage and AoE.

Rabadon’s Deathcap – Rabadon’s Deathcap greatly increases your ability powerwhile amplifying your other ability power items. This item greatly increases the damage of your auto attacks and (R) Noxious Trap.

Situational Items
Morellonomicon	Zhonya’s Hourglass	Hextech Gunblade
Void Staff

Morellonomicon – Morellonomicon is a good item as it inflicts grievous wounds to enemies below a certain health, giving you more damage output against champions with chunks of health such as Dr. Mundo and Nautilus.

Zhonya’s Hourglass – Zhonya’s Hourglass can save you from situations if the enemy team is always focusing on you first in team fights and skirmishes.

Hextech Gunblade – Hextech Gunblade gives him attack damage and ability power which can scale pretty well with Teemo if you plan to build him around his auto attack rather than his shrooms.

Void Staff – Void Staff increases your magic penetration, letting you deal more damage even though your enemies have built a lot of magic resistance items.

Playing Against

• Prioritize your (Q) Blinding Dart on champions who are auto-attack heavy. Aside from the blind, it can also be used as an auto-attack reset.
• Teemo is very squishy and can easily be killed with gap closers and nukes. Always try to focus him down in team fights since he can be a big threat in extended team fights.
• Always bring a control ward or Sweeping lens against Teemo. (R) Noxious Trap and Guerilla Warfare (passive) are hard to counter if you don’t have any items that can disable traps.
• Be careful when chasing Teemo as he can bait you with (R) Noxious Trap. Teemo usually scatters his traps along choke points and entrances so that he can secure an area and see whether an enemy is trying to invade or visit his lane.
• Wait until Teemo’s (Q) Blinding Dart is on cooldown before engaging, especially if you are an auto-attack champion.

Hard Counters

• Cho’Gath – Cho’Gath can kill a Teemo easily if he lands a Rupture or Feral Scream. Cho’Gath also has the ability to one shot a Teemo with his ultimate Feast. 
• Veigar – Veigar’s abilities are mostly area of effect that can deal damage to Teemo even if he is in stealth mode. Veigar also has Baleful Strike which can give Teemo a hard time in the laning phase.
• Pantheon – Teemo excels at enemies who are auto-attack dependent, and Pantheon isn’t one of them. Pantheon can  harass Teemo in the laning phase with Spear Shot and Heartseeker’s Strike. These abilities cannot be negated by Blinding Dart. 

Strategy Video

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