How to win lane as Teemo against Akali · 49.63% win rate (1,021 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Build MR — shroom + poke off shroud, blind her.
Track: Akali's W — Twilight Shroud (20–16s cooldown). Untargetable inside. Poke when down.
Read from Teemo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Akali.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Assassin's Mark is drawn by her spell damage and only fires when she exits the ring — the empowered hit is a basic attack, so a held Blinding Dart erases it entirely. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | She hits level 2 with a real combo, but Five Point Strike costs 110 energy of a 200 pool — she cannot cast it twice, so the trade right after her first Q is the free one you want. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Both kits are fully online but Twilight Shroud's cooldown creates real exploitable windows — blind her retaliatory auto, walk the poison, and contest only on the W timer. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Q max-ranked with shrooms on every entry point: she must burn W just to approach, which hands you the full commit window the moment she exits the fog. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Noxious Trap placement accelerates and your shroom net now covers the river and jungle entrances — Akali cannot roam or escape without eating a slow that reveals her to your jungler. |
| First item | Even / skill | Liandry's or Nashor's first item: your shroom DoT chunks her through her exit and she cannot safely re-enter your warded half of the lane without burning a cooldown every time. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Akali's two-item burst from R, E and the empowered passive auto can one-combo a squishy Teemo — a genuine Skill window where positioning and shroom density decide it, not the lane verdict. |
Akali wins levels 1 and 2 cleanly. Assassin's Mark comes off her spell damage, never her autos: she Qs you, walks out of the ring it draws, and her next basic attack gains bonus range and damage — that exit step is your cue to hold Blinding Dart, because the empowered hit is a basic attack and blind deletes it. Five Point Strike also costs 110 energy of a 200 pool, so she cannot chain two of them; the trade immediately after her first Q is the free one. Do not force anything pre-level 3: last-hit at the tip of AA range, keep a poison stack ticking, and know whether Twilight Shroud is down before you step forward.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Teemo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Teemo vs Akali 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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Nobody on paper — a 49.63% win rate over 1,021 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Teemo vs Akali is a genuine skill matchup: 49.63% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Teemo vs Akali win rate is 49.63%, an even lane decided by execution.
Teemo takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Akali.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Nashor's Tooth (on-hit poison) first, then Liandry's Torment, with Mercury's Treads.
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