How to win lane as Nautilus against Teemo · 40% win rate over 25 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither of us has an all-in at level 1 — but he has no commitment to make, so it's a clean Skill window before his blind comes online. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | Once Blinding Dart is up he poke-trades for free: it cancels my passive root and W-charged autos, so I can't punish him at all. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | My Q+W+E are online but useless if I can't land the hook — he Move Quicks out of anchor range and poisons me as I walk up. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | His W move speed and ramping poison let him kite my entire short-trade pattern through Levels 4-5; my shield doesn't help if I never connect. |
| Level 6 | Nautilus | Depth Charge is homing and undodgeable — it ignores his blind and Move Quick, knocking him up into my full passive-root-and-E combo for my one real kill window. |
| First item | Teemo | With R down and his first item online, his blind on a short cooldown shuts off every auto I have and his poke out-trades my tank damage. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | He out-scales hard: poison plus on-hit kite out-DPS my front-loaded kit, and shroom walls zone me off the lane entirely — play for the early lead or concede the side. |
Level 1 is roughly even because neither of us has a real all-in yet — but the moment he has Blinding Dart he turns every step I take into free poison poke, since my whole kit leans on autos (passive root, W splash burn) that his blind erases. My single play is a flat-side Q hook: land the anchor, get yanked in, passive-root and dump E, then leave. Miss that one skillshot and there is nothing — he just Move Quicks out of E range and chips me with poison while I eat minion aggro. Do not throw Q at a Teemo who is holding his blind; bait it first or hold it for a hook you can actually hit.
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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