Teemo vs Neeko — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Teemo against Neeko · 50.31% win rate over 324 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Teemo is favoured — Teemo owns 5 of the 7 game windows to Neeko's 1. Teemo wins 50.31% of games vs Neeko in top lane (324 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1NeekoNeeko's Blooming Burst (Q) reaches further than your auto at level 1 and she can freely poke before Blinding Shot exists to answer it.
Level 2TeemoBlinding Shot comes online — her auto-trade threat is nullified immediately and Tangle-Barbs has a long cooldown at rank 1, giving you clean poke windows.
Level 3TeemoFull kit running: E poison stacks compound with Blinding Shot, and you can zone her off CS by threatening the trade pattern she cannot safely answer.
Levels 4-5TeemoMax-rank Blinding Shot and tri-brush mushrooms let you deny her approach angles — she cannot root you from brush without walking over a shroom first.
Level 6TeemoPop Blossom's channel is long and telegraphed; a charged W Move Quick lets you sprint out of range, and your shroom net makes her approach paths dangerous.
First itemTeemoLiandry's DoT on top of E poison and mushrooms turns a Tangle-Barbs root into a death sentence — she cannot stand still under a shroom stack.
Two+ itemsEven / skillLate game her Pop Blossom teamfight scales to match your zone control; neither champion has a clear edge in a full macro skirmish — keep splitting.

Early game (levels 1–5)

At level 1 Neeko's Blooming Burst out-ranges your auto, so do not step up to poke at level 1 — farm with the tip of your auto and accept that she dictates spacing until you hit level 2. She will attempt to Q-poke and walk back into the brush to reset, so pre-place one mushroom at the tribush entrance before she reaches level 2 to burn a movement speed item or slow her retreat. The moment Blinding Shot comes online at level 2, the dynamic shifts: she cannot safely auto-trade into a blinded state, and her Tangle-Barbs (E) is the only threat left — dodge it by side-stepping toward the wall when she angles into brush.

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The full Teemo vs Neeko 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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