Gnar vs Teemo — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Gnar against Teemo · 50.59% win rate over 674 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: A genuine skill matchup — the favour swings window to window (2 apiece of the 7 stages). Gnar wins 50.59% of games vs Teemo in top lane (674 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1GnarBoth are weak level-1 ranged champs, but your level-2 Hyper third-hit proc plus Boomerang lands a free chunk before his Blinding Dart and poison out-scale your poke — Gnar owns this early window.
Level 2GnarYou can shove and crash the wave off that level-2 trade while he can only kite, giving Gnar the cleaner Mini-form tempo before shrooms exist.
Level 3Even / skillOnce his Blinding Dart is up he negates your autos the instant you step up and kites with Move Quick — but the lane is a coinflip on whether your Rage bar is full, so it's Skill, not his.
Levels 4-5Even / skillVolatile Rage stretch: a Mega Wallop-into-GNAR! wall-combo wins the all-in, but stuck in Mini you eat his E poison and Move Quick kite with no escape — pure RNG on form timing.
Level 6TeemoGnar gains no new spell at 6 while Teemo's R shrooms come online and start zoning the lane brush and your Hop/Crunch escape paths — this level tilts to Teemo's map control.
First itemEven / skillYour Mini Boomerang catch keeps poke trades even on cooldown, but his Blinding Dart still negates committed autos — neither side cleanly owns the item-one window.
Two+ itemsTeemoFull-build Teemo blinds your Mega autos, poisons you below transform value, and walls your escapes with shrooms while splitpushing — he reclaims the 1v1, so late goes to Teemo.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Two ranged champs, but this isn't a melee lane Gnar bullies — Teemo out-ranges your Mini autos and his Blinding Dart turns off your auto-and-Hyper poke the second you commit. Last-hit with the Boomerang tip and catch the return for the refund instead of walking up to trade through a blind. Your one clean window is level 2: the Hyper third-hit proc plus a Boomerang lands a free chunk before his Blinding Dart and poison out-scale your poke, so trade then and help crash the wave.

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The full Gnar 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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