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Teemo Guide

the Swift Scout

Marksman

Mage

Tier B Top

Teemo, the Swift Scout, is a marksman and mage champion of medium difficulty. Across our 551 analysed ranked games, Teemo is mostly played in Top (91% of its games), with a 48.8% win rate in that role: tier B among Top champions (#19 of 48, ranked by win rate). Teemo's damage is mostly magic (78%): magic resistance items are therefore effective against this champion. Win rate varies with game length: 51.8% in short games (under 25 min, 137 games) versus 46.7% in long games (over 35 min).

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Average KDA

5.3 / 6.2 / 5.9

ratio 1.8

Damage / min

960

CS / min

7.6

Gold / min

419

Kill participation

36%

Vision / min

0.86

Averages measured over 504 Top games played with Teemo, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Written guide · based on the official ability texts

Teemo is a harassment marksman-mage: his passive makes him invisible indefinitely if he stands still, and in tall grass he can move while staying invisible. Blinding Dart blinds, Move Quick speeds him up, Toxic Shot poisons for 4 seconds, and Noxious Trap places mushrooms that slow and damage.

Harassment

Q AA AA AA AA

When: An enemy is within range.

Blinding Dart deals damage and blinds; your attacks poison the target for 4 seconds.

The ambush

W AA AA

When: You are coming out of tall grass.

Leave your invisibility to benefit from the Element of Surprise (attack speed raised for a few seconds), then blind and attack.

See all 3 Teemo combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Blind with Blinding Dart to stop your opponent from attacking you. When you leave invisibility, your Element of Surprise raises your attack speed.

Common mistakes

Staying visible when you could hide.
Placing mushrooms without hiding them.
Ignoring the Element of Surprise: it is your damage window.

Riot's official tips for playing Teemo

Teemo's mushrooms can be used to farm creep waves very effectively.
Place your mushrooms at key locations on the map, such as by the Dragon or Baron Nashor, to reveal when your enemies might be attempting to kill them.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Statikk Shiv, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment (143 games, 52.4% win rate).

Statikk Shiv

Malignance

Liandry's Torment

143 games · 52.4%

44 games · 40.9%

44 games · 50.0%

Skill order

Max order : E > Q > W51.2% · 41 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q		●						●		●		●	●
W			●											●	●
E	●			●	●		●		●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 64 games).

Starting items

Doran's Ring

Health Potion

Health Potion55.6% · 45 games

First completed items, in order

Statikk Shiv

Liandry's Torment

20 games · 50.0%

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3491 gold, 70 CS, 4734 XP. At 15 min: 5482 gold, 110 CS, 8284 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite49.0% · 465 games

Exhaust + Flash55.6% · 18 games

Most-played runes

Press the Attack + Resolve

45.2% · 179 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph62%

Legend: Alacrity100%

Last Stand76%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Bone Plating93%

Overgrowth84%

Shards

Attack speed99%

Adaptive force90%

Health scaling72%

Press the Attack + Sorcery

52.4% · 168 games

Primary tree · Precision

Absorb Life49%

Legend: Alacrity99%

Cut Down56%

Secondary tree · Sorcery

Celerity74%

Nimbus Cloak54%

Shards

Attack speed97%

Adaptive force86%

Health scaling64%

Press the Attack + Domination

46.7% · 30 games

Primary tree · Precision

Absorb Life43%

Legend: Alacrity100%

Cut Down70%

Secondary tree · Domination

Ultimate Hunter100%

Taste of Blood43%

Shards

Attack speed97%

Adaptive force97%

Health scaling60%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Teemo's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team49.7% · 163 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Statikk Shiv 48.7%

Liandry's Torment 49.0%

Malignance 57.9% ▲

Dusk and Dawn 50.0%

Shadowflame 54.2%

Nashor's Tooth 54.5%

The item that stands out most is Malignance: 57.9% win rate, +5 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team41.5% · 118 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Statikk Shiv 39.3% ▼

Liandry's Torment 52.6%

Malignance 47.5% ▼

Nashor's Tooth 52.9%

Dusk and Dawn 31.2%

Shadowflame 53.3%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team52.0% · 223 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Statikk Shiv 55.2% ▲

Liandry's Torment 50.9%

Malignance 52.2%

Shadowflame 44.4% ▼

Dusk and Dawn 55.9% ▲

Nashor's Tooth 40.9%

The item that stands out most is Dusk and Dawn: 55.9% win rate, +7 points versus its usual win rate.

Counters and matchups

Who counters Teemo in Top

Garen Teemo: 46.7%15 games

Garen has the edge in 53% of the 15 Top duels against Teemo. See the Garen guide.

Who Teemo is strong against

Garen46.7% · 15 games

How to play against Teemo

Teemo's Toxic Shot punishes players who get hit and back out, so stay at a safe range until you're ready to commit.
It can be valuable to use Oracle's Lens(Trinket) to destroy mushrooms around key locations.

Riot's official tips.

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Teemo's matchups.

Teemo Top: what our games say

Laning phase against the Top average

Measure	Teemo	Top average	Gap
Gold at 10 min	3491	3580	−88
CS at 10 min	70	71	−1
XP at 10 min	4734	4754	−20
Gold at 15 min	5482	5655	−173
CS at 15 min	110	111	−2
XP at 15 min	8284	8297	−13

Measured over 64 Teemo games with a timeline; the average covers 82 champions played Top in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

short under 25 min51.8 %137 games

medium-length 25 to 35 min48.0 %277 games

long over 35 min46.7 %90 games

Best result: short (under 25 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.

Teemo in another role

Role	Games	Win rate	CS/min	Gold/min	Most-built items
Jungle	47	40.4 %	6.9	414

Roles where we have at least 40 Teemo games.

Abilities

PassiveGuerrilla 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 a few seconds.

QBlinding Dart

Obscures an enemy's vision with a powerful venom, dealing damage to the target unit and blinding it for the duration.

WMove Quick

Teemo scampers around, passively increasing his Move Speed until he is struck by an enemy champion or turret. Teemo can sprint to gain bonus Move Speed that isn't stopped by being struck for a short time.

EToxic Shot

Each of Teemo's attacks will poison the target %i:OnHit% On-Hit, dealing damage on impact and each second after for 4 seconds.

RNoxious Trap

Teemo throws an explosive poisonous trap using one of the mushrooms stored in his pack. If an enemy steps on the trap, it will release a poisonous cloud, slowing enemies and damaging them over time. If Teemo throws a mushroom onto another mushroom it will bounce, gaining additional range.