How to win lane as Sylas against Teemo · 47.99% win rate (1,440 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Get on him with E2 the moment Blinding Dart is down — one full chain with the W heal erases a poke deficit.
Track: Teemo's Q — Blinding Dart (7s cooldown). Blinds your autos — trade with spells while it is up.
Read from Sylas's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Teemo.
This is Sylas's own plan; across 1,440 pooled games the lane is leaning Teemo.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Teemo's Blinding Dart is available at level 1 and you cannot yet chain him; standing in poke range without E to punish the cooldown just loses HP for free. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | He still has Blinding Dart and you have only one E charge with no follow-up combo ready — the hook is killable but the kill is not clean enough to commit. |
| Level 3 | Sylas | Abduct pulls you onto him, Chain Lash slows the kite and Kingslayer heals — Blinding Dart is a flat 7s at every rank, so the gap between casts is always the same and known. |
| Levels 4-5 | Sylas | Your sustained trading through passive autos and W heal is too much for his E poison to match across multiple engages — force trades every time his Blinding Dart is down. |
| Level 6 | Sylas | Stolen Noxious Trap zones his escape routes and your Hijack burst on top of W means he dies in one chain from 70% HP; he has no dash to deny the hook. |
| First item | Sylas | Riftmaker omnivamp through Q, passive autos, and W out-heals his poison damage; the sustain advantage is now decisive and he cannot disengage once you hook. |
| Two+ items | Sylas | You still win the straight duel comfortably, but his Noxious Trap coverage on objectives is the real threat — sweep chokepoints and close the game before his map control compounds. |
Teemo owns the first two levels outright — his Blinding Dart lands before you have E, and his Move Quick passive means chasing on foot is suicide. Walk up only to last-hit with Q tip, absorb the poke behind minions, and do not burn E1 to close distance yet; he wants you to waste it. The moment you hit level 2 and E loads, count his Blinding Dart cooldown — it is roughly 7 seconds — and the first time it misses or is used on a minion, that is your window to E2 hook and chain into a W, but only if he cannot simply run out of range immediately.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Sylas's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Sylas 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 — Sylas wins 47.99% of 1,440 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Teemo has a small statistical edge (52.01% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Teemo has the slight edge (Sylas wins 47.99%), though it stays close.
Sylas takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Unflinching) vs Teemo.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Fated Ashes + Dark Seal (≈1100g). Build Riftmaker first, then Zhonya's Hourglass, with Mercury's Treads.
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