How to win lane as Teemo against Olaf · 45.41% win rate over 621 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Blinding Shot negates Olaf's auto-retrieve trade pattern at level 1 — Q him when he steps up for the axe and his entire damage loop misses. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | With E online Olaf has true damage on a short cooldown, but Q keeps his auto tempo at zero — trade only when Q is ready, not on his schedule. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Full kit gives you blind plus poison plus Move Quick to disengage after each trade — Olaf has no dash to answer, so he leaks HP through every exchange. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | Q is max-ranked and your mushroom placement in river and tribush starts limiting Olaf's kill paths — he must walk through your zone to all-in and cannot safely freeze. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Ragnarok goes live here and Olaf becomes genuinely dangerous — shroom the escape corridors before 6 so his CC-immune run-down has no clean line to reach you. |
| First item | Teemo | Liandry's poison stacks outpace his sustain in extended poke trades, but his Sundered Sky spike is equally sharp — own the window by staying at Q range and never letting him smell a Reckless Swing. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | With two items Olaf's Ragnarok uptime and true damage threaten the duel — this stage is genuinely Skill-dependent on whether his ult is on cooldown when he chases you. |
Blinding Shot is your entire level 1 identity here — the moment Olaf steps up to retrieve his Undertow axe, Q him and follow with Toxic Shot autos while he deals zero auto damage back. Do not get greedy: Olaf's W sustain means two or three blind trades put him slightly behind on HP, not dead, and his E Reckless Swing deals true damage that bypasses any HP advantage you think you have. Keep the wave in the centre or just past it and never let him freeze near his tower, where his axe-slow has room to stick.
The full Teemo vs Olaf 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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