Malphite vs Teemo — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Malphite against Teemo · 52.97% win rate over 2,475 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Malphite is favoured — Malphite owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Teemo's 2. Malphite wins 52.97% of games vs Teemo in top lane (2,475 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1TeemoTeemo blinds your Thunderclap autos and kites with move speed — at level 1 you have no trade pattern and just eat poke.
Level 2TeemoHe out-ranges and out-poisons you with E while you have only a slow Seismic Shard — let Granite Shield soak it and farm.
Level 3Even / skillBy level 3 it evens out: he still pokes but your shield and W sustain stop the bleed, and he can't kill you yet.
Levels 4-5MalphiteW/E come online — Ground Slam's attack-speed slow and Thunderclap's armor let you farm through his poison and stabilize.
Level 6MalphiteUnstoppable Force is your spike — no dash means Teemo has no escape, so R + Thunderclap runs him down on his blind timer.
First itemMalphiteYour first armor item plus Ground Slam blanks his on-hit DPS while your engage stays lethal — force every all-in now.
Two+ itemsMalphiteYou still win the duel outright, but his shrooms zone chokes and his splitpush punishes your low mobility — group and flank, don't chase.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Teemo owns the opening. His blind (Q) cancels the empowered autos of your Thunderclap and his passive move speed means you can't walk him down, so don't waste mana throwing a Seismic Shard at max range hoping to chase — just last-hit and accept the E-poison chip. Your Granite Shield passive is the saving grace: step out of his auto range between trades and the shield refreshes, soaking most of his poke. Don't flame your jungler; this is a survive-to-6 lane, not a level-2 cheese.

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The full Malphite 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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