How to win lane as Teemo against K'Sante · 55% win rate over 500 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | K'Sante | K'Sante's passive percent-HP autos make Level 1 auto trades pure losses for you — last-hit at E poison range and never walk into auto-swap distance before his W is visibly on cooldown. |
| Level 2 | K'Sante | His W shield absorbs your Q blind at Level 2 and he immediately dashes in for a free trade — hold Q until after his W animation so your blind actually lands on empowered autos. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With his W on cooldown and your full kit available the matchup is genuinely contested — poke with E, bait the W block, then Q and kite; neither side has a clean kill window. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Q max rank and mushroom zone control keep him off the CS without giving him a free angle; the Skill call reflects that his Q3 pull can still punish any mispositioned W kite. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Mushrooms seal both flanking bushes and the river path, so his All Out dash commits into a slow-and-reveal — his engage is now a telegraphed gap-close you can Q-blind mid-air and W away from. |
| First item | Even / skill | Liandry's Angueur makes your E DoT threatening against his HP pool while your mushroom net is at peak density, but his Iceborn Gauntlet slows your W escape route; the window is yours to press but not to force. |
| Two+ items | K'Sante | All Out strips his own resistances and he becomes a melee fighter with execute damage who outruns your W on the Gauntlet slow — never duel him without shrooms pre-placed and accept that the side lane is about zone denial, not kills. |
K'Sante's passive turns every auto he lands into percent-max-HP shred — at Level 1 you cannot win a straight auto trade before your Q is off cooldown, and he will happily stack those procs to chunk you down. At Level 2 his W shield can absorb your Q dart clean and then he dashes into you for free; respect this window by holding your blind for when his W is clearly on cooldown, not preemptively throwing it into the block. The good news is that he cannot kill you without burning All Out, which is a long-cooldown ult — farm conservatively with E poison autos, accept that the health bar favours him early, and do not let the chip lead bait you into fighting on his terms.
The full Teemo vs K'Sante 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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