How to win lane as Teemo against Darius · 56.9% win rate over 1,443 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Blinding Shot at Level 1 makes Darius's auto-trade pattern entirely nonfunctional — his Hemorrhage stacks cannot build and his passive Decimate Q heals nothing, so you own this stage without contest. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | He picks up Crippling Strike (W) at Level 2 but still has no gap-close — keep poison ticking with E autos and Q any auto attempt; your poke lead compounds. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Apprehend (E) comes online at Level 3 and is his first real kill threat, but it has a long cooldown and a visible windup — W away the moment the animation starts and he loses his only stick tool for four seconds. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | Q is max-ranked and your shrooms now cover both bushes at tribush; he has no safe approach vector, and every trade he attempts results in a Blind whiff plus DoT stack. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Noxious Trap placements on every approach path make a Level 6 all-in a slow-and-reveal death march for Darius — he can only reach you by burning Flash into a pre-poisoned zone. |
| First item | Teemo | Liandry's Angueur DoT burns through his Grasp-stacked HP bar on every mushroom step and every Toxic Shot auto, turning his bulk into a liability rather than a lane tool. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Darius is a teamfight juggernaut and you are a splitpusher — the stage is Skill because your individual 1v1 still favors you but his team presence and Stridebreaker active begin to close the gap if he ever reaches you. |
Level 1 is yours outright — Blinding Shot erases Darius's entire auto-based trading pattern before he has a single answer to it, and his Decimate (Q) heal only procs when he actually hits autos that land, which they do not. Auto him once, Q the moment he steps to retaliate, and watch his full combo fizzle. The only thing that kills you before Level 3 is walking into Apprehend range on his terms, so keep the wave in the center of lane and poke from maximum distance.
The full Teemo vs Darius 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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