Garen vs Teemo — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Garen against Teemo · 53.16% win rate over 3,213 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Garen is favoured — Garen owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Teemo's 2. Garen wins 53.16% of games vs Teemo in top lane (3,213 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1TeemoTeemo wins level 1 by blinding your auto and poking you down.
Level 2TeemoLevel 2 stays his as the blind and range keep you off him.
Level 3Even / skillAt 3 it evens out once your Judgment lets you threaten a trade.
Levels 4-5GarenLevels 4-5 tip to you as you force him with sustained pressure.
Level 6GarenLevel 6 your Demacian Justice beats his squishy build outright.
First itemGarenFirst item you run him down with tenacity through his blind.
Two+ itemsGarenTwo items in, your durability and execute out-scale his poke.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 belong to Teemo: his Blinding Dart negates your auto damage and his ranged poke chunks you before you can ever stick to him.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Garen vs Teemo report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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