How to win lane as Teemo against Locke · 49.53% win rate (860 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He's a 125-range mana champ walking into your poke — win the lane at range and never gift the one blink window that flips it.
Track: Locke's Q — Ritual Nails (10–6s cooldown). The nail marks are his whole engine — without 2-3 stacks on you his blink-in barely dents; sidestep the recasts and punish the ten seconds of nothing.
Read from Teemo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Locke.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even — your poison poke against his on-hit trades, no favourite. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | At 2, blind eats his on-hit damage and his mark payout. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 stays even, revolving around your Blinding Dart cooldown. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Through 4-5 the trades are a coin-flip decided by your blind. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | At 6 Purgatory reaches 1000 — your kite does not outrange it. |
| First item | Locke | At his first item Purgatory executes from 1000, and low HP feeds it — his stage. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | With items your shroom map control offsets his on-contact burst — even once more. |
An even dance: your poison against his on-hit pressure, and it hinges on Blinding Dart. Blind is worth its cooldown here because it kills the Silver Stake on-hit AND the attack that cashes his nail marks. Waste it on poke and his next arrival hurts. Chip patiently, stay high.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Teemo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Teemo vs Locke 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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Nobody on paper — a 49.53% win rate over 860 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Teemo vs Locke is a genuine skill matchup: 49.53% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Teemo vs Locke win rate is 49.53%, an even lane decided by execution.
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