Teemo is a ranged marksman usually played Top on Summoner's Rift. This guide covers Teemo in ARAM: Play as a poke and area denial mage, using mushrooms to control key zones and your stealth to set up ambushes.
Teemo becomes invisible while standing still, or moving in brush, gaining attack speed after leaving stealth.
Teemo fires a dart that damages and blinds the target, causing its attacks to miss for a short duration.
Teemo gains passive Move Speed until hit, or activates a short sprint that ignores damage slows.
Teemo's attacks poison enemies, dealing damage on hit and over 4 seconds.
Teemo throws a poison trap that slows and damages enemies over time, and bounces when placed on another mushroom.
Play as a poke and area denial mage, using mushrooms to control key zones and your stealth to set up ambushes. Focus on harassing with auto-attacks and blinding key targets during fights.
Place mushrooms in bushes and narrow pathways to maximize area denial and surprise damage.
Use your stealth passive to ambush low-health enemies or escape ganks by standing still in brush.
Build Liandry's Torment and Demonic Embrace to maximize burn damage on your mushrooms and auto-attacks.
Prioritize ability haste items like Nashor's Tooth to spam mushrooms more frequently.
Use your W (Blinding Dart) to disable enemy auto-attackers during team fights.
Q (Blinding Dart) -> auto-attack -> W (Move Quick) to kite and disengage.
Place R (Noxious Trap) mushrooms in a line to create a minefield for chasing enemies.
Stealth (passive) -> auto-attack -> Q -> auto-attack for a surprise burst combo.
Runes
Primary — Sorcery
Secondary — Resolve
Summoners
Skill Order
Max your skills in this order
Starter Items
Core Items
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Options
Buy when:
Avoid when:
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Buy when:
Avoid when:
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In ARAM, Teemo typically builds core items like Statikk Shiv, Sorcerer's Shoes, Malignance and Deathfire Touch runes (Sorcery primary, Resolve secondary).
Take Deathfire Touch in the Sorcery tree as your keystone, with Resolve as your secondary tree for Teemo in ARAM.
Play as a poke and area denial mage, using mushrooms to control key zones and your stealth to set up ambushes. Focus on harassing with auto-attacks and blinding key targets during fights.
Q (Blinding Dart) -> auto-attack -> W (Move Quick) to kite and disengage.