How to win lane as Teemo against Illaoi · 59.2% win rate over 402 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Illaoi's only level 1 damage is auto attacks and her W tentacle slap — Toxic Shot poison on every auto you land punishes her for standing near minions with zero retaliation. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | Blinding Shot comes online and erases her entire trade pattern: she cannot proc W without landing autos, and a blinded Illaoi stands there dealing zero damage while your poison ticks. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Full kit online — E poison, Q blind, and W disengage give you a safe in-and-out trade loop Illaoi's dash-less kit cannot punish if you dodge Test of Spirit. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | Max-rank Blinding Shot and accumulated mushroom coverage let you control which bushes Illaoi can contest; she must walk into shroomed zones to fight you and she has no answer for the slow. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Leap of Faith summons tentacles at her feet and can overwhelm your movement speed in a packed AOE — this is the one window where refusing the fight and buying time with shrooms on exit routes is the honest play. |
| First item | Teemo | Liandry's Angueur converts your Toxic Shot DoT into percentage-health burn — Illaoi's tanky stat-stick builds actively amplify how quickly she dies to a poison kite, and she cannot outheal stacking burn with one Corrupting Potion. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | Two items in, your damage per poison cycle is high enough that Illaoi cannot safely walk into your split lane through mushroom coverage; her immobility and lack of a dash mean she farms under tower or feeds you a tower trade every time she tries. |
At level 1 Illaoi has no reliable way to trade without her autos landing — walk up, auto her on every minion last-hit, and let Toxic Shot stacks accumulate. The moment she raises her hand to Test of Spirit, strafe sideways; the projectile is slow and telegraphed. If it misses, immediately fire Blinding Shot and auto twice before walking back — she cannot retaliate without autos and her tentacles only slap if she is nearby. At level 2 your blind window is your full trade license: step into auto range, Q her, stack two poison autos, and W out before Test of Spirit comes back. She has no dash to close the gap, so every time you do this cleanly you win the trade by a significant margin.
The full Teemo vs Illaoi 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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