Teemo vs Gragas — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Teemo against Gragas · 51.61% win rate over 403 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: A genuine skill matchup — the favour swings window to window (3 apiece of the 7 stages). Teemo wins 51.61% of games vs Gragas in top lane (403 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1GragasGragas's level 1 passive barrel stacks and AP base damage exceed your bare auto-poison before Toxic Shot ramps — stay at max auto range and don't fight for level-1 poke dominance.
Level 2Even / skillBody Slam is online but Blinding Shot cancels his auto reply after the dash — neither of you has a clean kill window, so small poke trades split the advantage.
Level 3GragasHis full AP kit is live at level 3 and Body Slam at this rank deals enough burst to trade through a single blind — he holds the commit advantage if you misposition, which tips this stage his way.
Levels 4-5TeemoQ fully ranked means every Gragas auto attempt after Body Slam is a wasted trade — blind him the moment he commits and walk the DoT stack out of dash range.
Level 6TeemoShrooms on both river entries and tribush make every Body Slam commit potentially lethal for him — your first-use Noxious Trap placement turns his preferred engage path into a minefield.
First itemTeemoNashor's Tooth on-hit venom stacks every blinded Gragas auto window — your damage finally exceeds his W damage-reduction and you can dictate every short trade in this window.
Two+ itemsGragasFull AP Gragas out-sustains your DoT with Q barrel healing and can Explosive Cask you into his team for a one-shot — shift to shroom-warded splitpush rather than looking for solo kills.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Gragas owns level 1 cleanly — his drunk passive gives him bonus HP from barrels, his AP base damage is ahead of your bare poison at level 1, and he can Body Slam forward if you stand too close to last-hit. Keep auto-attack range, don't step past the minion line, and accept that this is a farm-and-identify minute, not a poke minute. At level 2 it genuinely splits: Blinding Shot erases his auto-trade reply after Body Slam, but his Q puddle heals back more than your level-2 poison deals if he stands in it. Bait him to walk into your range without barreling, blind the instant he commits, and walk the poison out — never let him get a clean E-in-then-auto-while-blinded pattern because his AP damage is already live.

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The full Teemo vs Gragas 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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