Teemo vs Locke — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Teemo against Locke · 49.53% win rate over 860 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Locke is favoured — Locke owns 1 of the 7 game windows. Play it patient and win your windows. Teemo wins 49.53% of games vs Locke in top lane (860 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillLevel 1 is even — your poison poke against his on-hit trades, no favourite.
Level 2Even / skillAt 2 the lane hinges on your Q blind timing, not raw stats.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 3 stays even, revolving around your Blinding Dart cooldown.
Levels 4-5Even / skillThrough 4-5 the trades are a coin-flip decided by your blind.
Level 6Even / skillAt 6 your kite and blind offset his fresh ult before he closes.
First itemLockeAt his first item, Purgatory reliably executes you once he reaches you — his stage.
Two+ itemsEven / skillWith items your shroom map control offsets his on-contact burst — even once more.

Early game (levels 1–5)

The whole laning phase is an even dance: your poison poke trades into his on-hit pressure, and everything hinges on Blinding Dart timing. Blind his damage window and you win the exchange; waste it on poke and his next engage hurts. Chip patiently and keep the coinflip stages bloodless.

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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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