Teemo vs Poppy — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Teemo against Poppy · 56.51% win rate over 338 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Winnable despite the lane — Poppy owns 2 of the 7 game windows to Teemo's 1, yet the win rate favours Teemo: survive their windows and the game is yours. Teemo wins 56.51% of games vs Poppy in top lane (338 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1PoppyPoppy's raw level-1 auto damage and Hammer Shock out-trade your single E tick — she sets the brawl tone before your blind is even relevant.
Level 2Even / skillNeither kit has a decisive Level 2 edge: you can blind her next auto, but she can shield the poke and step back — even skirmish until you get full kit.
Level 3TeemoFull kit online: Blinding Shot blanks all of Poppy's auto damage while E poison stacks freely, and W lets you kite every Heroic Charge attempt at a safe angle.
Levels 4-5Even / skillHeroic Charge's cooldown is long but Poppy's shield passive and bulk make trades attrition wars — poke when the shield is down, W out before she resets it.
Level 6Even / skillShrooms at the wall corners flip her Level 6 — the bushes she needs for a Heroic Charge pin are now slowing traps, but her ult gives her an engage option your W cannot always outrun.
First itemEven / skillLiandry's DoT turns her tanky HP pool into a timer; shrooms slow her to half speed through the approach — she cannot survive a poke loop the way she survives a straight trade.
Two+ itemsPoppyFull tank Poppy plus Keeper's Verdict: she absorbs mushroom stacks long enough to launch a full-duration ult and eject you from every teamfight — the late game belongs to her engage kit.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Poppy owns level 1 — her auto damage and Hammer Shock deal more raw burst than your single-dot E tick, and she has no dash to punish, so she will simply walk at you and brawl. Respect this window: last-hit from outside her auto range, never step close enough to give her a free Heroic Charge into a wall, and do not blow W chasing. Your only early job is to identify which wall she wants to use for the E stun and plant a mushroom exactly there before she sets up the angle.

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The full Teemo vs Poppy 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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