How to win lane as Teemo against Malphite · 47.03% win rate (2,475 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Blind his Q-armor auto, kite the poke, and your MR + shrooms make his all-in whiff every time.
Track: Malphite's R — Unstoppable Force (130–100s cooldown). Un-dodgeable burst. Blind + kite it.
Read from Teemo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Malphite.
This is Teemo's own plan; across 2,475 pooled games the lane is leaning Malphite.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Malphite's passive Granite Shield absorbs your level-1 auto-poke without retaliation — he regenerates between hits faster than your E DoT alone can drain it. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | At level 2 Thunderclap resets his attack and loads aftershocks into the next few — those are on-hit attacks, so blind is worth spending on them, but he still wins any trade you extend past one hit. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Ground Slam arrives and cuts your attack speed on a 7s cooldown, which is the one thing that actually stops your poison engine — his armour never touches the magic damage itself. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Q at rank 3 and full poison stacks let you dictate the trades — but only from outside 625, where Seismic Shard cannot steal your speed. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Unstoppable Force is now loaded on both sides — shrooms turn every approach path into a minefield and make his all-in a coin-flip on whether you see him coming in time. |
| First item | Even / skill | Liandry's Torment percent-health burn bypasses his armor itemization entirely and turns every E-auto cycle into real damage — this is your power peak in the lane. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | He becomes a pure ult bot and stops being a lane factor, but Unstoppable Force from fog of war still one-shots you — shroom every side-lane choke and never be caught facechecking. |
Granite Shield recharges only when he has gone a few seconds without being hit, and Toxic Shot poison ticks every second for four seconds — so a single auto suppresses the shield for the entire poison duration. That is the whole early game: walk up, land one attack, apply the DoT, and leave. You do not need a trade; you need the poison clock running, and every second it runs is a second his shield is not coming back. Do not throw Blinding Dart at level 1 unless he is about to attack you — save it for Thunderclap at level 2, which resets his attack and loads aftershocks into the next few. Those aftershocks are on-hit attacks, which is exactly what blind erases, so one well-timed dart costs him the whole window rather than a single hit. He still wins both of the first two levels on raw durability, so bank the poison, take the CS, and refuse every trade you cannot end in one attack.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Teemo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Teemo vs Malphite 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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Malphite, slightly — Teemo wins 47.03% of 2,475 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Malphite has a small statistical edge (52.97% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Malphite has the slight edge (Teemo wins 47.03%), though it stays close.
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 Malphite.
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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