How to win lane as Nautilus against Teemo · 48.18% win rate (1,868 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
His blind + %HP + kite — build MR, Q-hook his kite.
Track: Teemo's Q — Blinding Dart (7s cooldown). Blinds your autos. Q-hook instead.
Read from Nautilus's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Teemo.
This is Nautilus's own plan; across 1,868 pooled games the lane is leaning Teemo.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither of you has an all-in at level 1 — and he has no commitment to make, so it is a clean Skill window before his blind comes online. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | Once Blinding Dart is up he pokes for free: blinded, Staggering Blow cannot root and your W autos whiff, so you cannot punish. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Your Q+W+E are online but useless without the hook — Move Quick (14s) carries him out of the 1150 anchor as you walk up. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | His Move Quick speed and ramping poison kite your whole short-trade pattern through Levels 4-5; the shield does nothing if you never connect. |
| Level 6 | Nautilus | Depth Charge is homing and undodgeable — it ignores blind and Move Quick, knocking him up into your full passive-root and E combo for the one real kill window. |
| First item | Teemo | With your R down and his first item online, a flat 7s Blinding Dart shuts off every auto you have and his poke out-trades your tank damage. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | He out-scales hard: poison plus on-hit kite out-DPS your front-loaded kit, and shroom walls zone you off the lane entirely — play for the early lead or concede the side. |
Level 1 is roughly even because neither of you has a real all-in yet — but the moment he has Blinding Dart he turns every step you take into free poison poke, since your kit leans on autos (passive root, W splash burn) and blinded they simply do not land. Your single play is a flat-side Q hook: land the anchor, passive-root and dump E, then leave. Miss that one skillshot and there is nothing — he Move Quicks out of E range and chips you with poison while you eat minion aggro. Never throw Q at a Teemo holding his blind; bait the flat 7 seconds first.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Nautilus's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Nautilus 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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Teemo, slightly — Nautilus wins 48.18% of 1,868 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Teemo has a small statistical edge (51.82% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Teemo has the slight edge (Nautilus wins 48.18%), though it stays close.
Nautilus takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Teemo.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Iceborn Gauntlet (perma-slow chains) first, then Sunfire Aegis, with Mercury's Treads.
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