How to win lane as Graves against Teemo · 39.29% win rate over 28 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | He blinds your point-blank shell spread with Q and kites with Move Quick move speed — at level 1 you have one ability and no E dash, so you concede and farm at max Q range. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | You pick up a second ability and your trade pattern starts, but his blind still cancels your spread on demand — it is even at best, never yours. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With W, E and Q online you can smoke-blind him, E-in and burst — but his Q blind is up as often as your combo, so it stays a coin-flip skill window. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | His E poison and Move Quick kite compound over levels 4-5 while your True Grit armor does nothing against his magic-damage poke — he chips you between every failed step-in. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | At 6 your R nuke and wall escape give you a real kill threat on a blind-down engage, but a Q-ready Teemo zeroes the spread, so it is genuinely even. |
| First item | Teemo | Your Eclipse/Youmuu's spike raises your tempo but not your range — his Q still blinds the shell burst your whole damage depends on, so the lane stays his. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | Shrooms, splitpush and R zoning mean you can never reach him — he out-ranges and out-scales the one thing you do, which is fight in melee. |
Teemo's Q blind is the entire problem: it lands on your point-blank shell spread and your autos do nothing, while your whole kit is built around being in his face. At level 1 you have one ability, no E dash yet, and short shell range, so just last-hit at the tip of your Q and eat the poison rather than walk into a free blind-and-kite. Every failed step-up costs you HP his Move Quick passive guarantees you can't trade back, since he move-speeds out of range before your spread connects.
The full Graves 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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