How to win lane as Teemo against Kassadin · 54.34% win rate (519 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Bully him early — blind his Riftwalk and poison every path he walks.
Track: Kassadin's R — Riftwalk (5–2s cooldown). His mobility spike at 6. Kill him before it scales.
Read from Teemo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Kassadin.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Kassadin's Void Stone passive reduces all magic damage he takes — your E poison trades hurt far less than they do against a normal melee, and he can walk through your poke level 1 without meaningful attrition. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | Null Sphere does not silence you — it interrupts channels and wraps him in a shield that absorbs magic damage. That shield stacked on Void Stone is what blanks your poison at level 2, not any lockdown. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Neither of you has a decisive edge: you cannot burst him through his shield and he cannot reach you consistently yet — farm, maintain wave position, and avoid his Q range. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | With Q max-ranked your blind is reliable and your shroom radius expanding, but Void Stone and the Null Sphere shield still eat the magic half of every trade — the lane stays contested and neither side forces a clean kill. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Noxious Trap changes the geometry of the lane: every Riftwalk landing zone you pre-shroom becomes a slow-and-reveal trap, letting you re-establish range before he can chain a second blink onto you — you own the lane geography. |
| First item | Teemo | Your first item spike (Liandry's or Rylai's) raises your shroom and DoT damage, but his two-item spike is more threatening than yours — secure advantages through objective control and shroom-warded split lanes rather than forcing duels. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | At two AP items Kassadin's Riftwalk burst exceeds your HP pool and his blink frequency lets him bypass your mushroom net — respect the power shift, deny him solo kills by playing with vision, and let your map pressure from earlier win the game. |
Kassadin is one of the weakest level-1 champions in the game, but Void Stone eats a chunk of your Toxic Shot magic damage the moment he walks up — do not expect short poison trades to chunk him the way they would a Darius. Weave auto-poke from maximum range between minions and stay outside his 650-unit Null Sphere: it does not silence you, whatever you have read, but it shields him against exactly the damage you deal. Be careful casting near him at all — every spell cast in his vicinity charges Force Pulse. At level 2 he gains Nether Blade, an auto-attack empower that also restores mana off minions, so he can sustain through small poke indefinitely if you let him farm in peace. Keep him off the wave with auto harassment, not poison-stacking.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Teemo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Teemo vs Kassadin 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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Teemo, slightly — a 54.34% win rate edge over 519 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Teemo has a small statistical edge (54.34% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Teemo has a slight edge (54.34% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
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 Kassadin.
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 Mercury's Treads.
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