How to win lane as Teemo against Malphite · 48.33% win rate over 1,947 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Malphite | 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 | Malphite | At level 2 his Thunderclap gives him a buffered auto trade that punches through your first blind window if you try to poke him in melee range — he wins direct trades until you can kite cleanly. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Q maxed starts to genuinely drain his shield through the blind, but his armor stacking begins to blunt your E damage — the lane is a skill contest over who controls trade spacing. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | With Q max and full poison stacks you dictate every trade: blind him, poison him, W out — he has no dash to answer and no CC to stop the disengage. |
| 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 | Teemo | Liandry's Angueur 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. |
Malphite's passive Granite Shield regenerates fully when he hasn't taken damage for a few seconds, which makes your standard auto-poke loop dangerous: if you auto, E-poison, and retreat, his shield just resets between your windows. The correct pattern at levels 1-2 is to walk up, auto-cancel into E poison to apply the DoT, and immediately disengage with W — the poison ticks drain his shield while you are already out of his auto range, so by the time he regenerates it you have another E stack ready. Do not throw Blinding Shot at level 1 unless he is about to auto you for the first hit; save it so you can respond to his W Thunderclap all-in at level 2. He wins both of these first two levels on raw durability — his shield outheals your level-1 DPS, and at level 2 his W gives him bonus armor and a strong auto that punishes any trade you extend past one hit.
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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