How to win lane as Teemo against Gangplank · 46.62% win rate (1,079 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Poke war — pop his barrels, blind his autos.
Track: Gangplank's E — Powder Keg. Pop barrels to deny poke + gold.
Read from Teemo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Gangplank.
This is Teemo's own plan; across 1,079 pooled games the lane is leaning Gangplank.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gangplank | A blinded Gangplank cannot detonate a keg with an auto — but Parrrley can, and at a flat 4.5 seconds it always will, so a level-1 barrel chain still out-chunks your single E poison tick. |
| Level 2 | Gangplank | Parrrley (Q) can pop a barrel before your Blinding Dart is off cooldown at level 2, giving him a point-and-click detonator that works straight through the blind in a short trade. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With full kit online you can blind his auto, walk on Move Quick, and re-engage before his next barrel is placed — neither side can force a clean kill and the lane resets to poke. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | Blinding Dart is a flat 7s at every rank, so nothing changes on your side — what changes is that a keg now recharges every 14-15s, slowing his chains enough that you win extended skirmishes. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Noxious Trap seals both river entrances and his lateral escape angles; Gangplank's global R is impactful but does not help him win the direct lane trade with a blind up. |
| First item | Teemo | Liandry's Torment poison reapplies on every auto and every mushroom trigger and cannot be Oranges'd away — your sustained burn now outpaces his Parrrley poke over any trade longer than two seconds. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | Tri-Force or crit plus his global Cannon Barrage means one correct rotation wins objectives from across the map; your shroom grid keeps him zoned locally but cannot answer his teamfight damage output. |
Blind him and his autos miss everything, including his own kegs — Trial by Fire and auto-detonation both die to a Blinding Dart. What survives the blind is Parrrley, a flat 4.5-second point-and-click that pops kegs anyway, so he still wins a straight level-1 poke war. Do not stand in barrel triangle formations; auto his kegs the instant they appear to deny both the poke and the plunder gold. A keg recharges every 17 seconds at rank 1, so every barrel you destroy is a real hole in his pattern — last-hit at max auto range until one opens.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Teemo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Teemo vs Gangplank 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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Gangplank, slightly — Teemo wins 46.62% of 1,079 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Gangplank has a small statistical edge (53.38% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Gangplank has the slight edge (Teemo wins 46.62%), though it stays close.
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 Gangplank.
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 Sorcerer's Shoes.
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