How to win lane as Teemo against Ryze · 54.01% win rate over 424 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Ryze | Ryze's Overload (Q) poke and W shield give him genuine level-1 agency at range — you cannot simply walk up and set Toxic Shot stacks without eating a poke trade you may not win. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | His E root and W root are not yet chained efficiently at level 2, and your Move Quick escape works cleanly — neither of you has a decisive edge so the window is genuinely even. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Q is two ranks and Toxic Shot poison accumulates faster than his mana-gated spell spam can sustain; Blinding Shot cuts off his Q-auto reset loop, tipping the trade in your favour. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | Your strongest sustained lane control window: shrooms deny his safe CS angles, Blind Shot punishes every Q-up approach, and he cannot all-in through the Toxic Shot DoT without burning his W shield on cooldown. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Noxious Trap placement accelerates after 6 — river and tribush shrooms expose Realm Warp destinations and cut his roam threat, extending your poke window into the objective phase. |
| First item | Teemo | Liandry's Angueur makes every Toxic Shot tick and every shroom step threatening enough that Ryze cannot farm into his scaler fantasy safely; this is your peak power moment, force him off the wave. |
| Two+ items | Ryze | Full-build Ryze's W root chains cancel Move Quick and his Q damage outpaces your Liandry DoT at 2+ items — respect the damage spike and play for map control, not the duel. |
Ryze level 1 is no pushover — Overload (Q) has real range and his W shield eats your first Toxic Shot tick, so you cannot simply walk up and start free-poking the way you would into a melee. Play just outside his Q cast range, wait for him to step toward CS, then land a Blinding Shot and immediately trade two or three Toxic Shot autos before retreating with Move Quick. The key is never letting him land his E first: his E creates a root zone around you and his follow-up W root becomes a two-tap CC chain if you are already slowed by shrooms or caught flat-footed. Set a mushroom in the tribush at 00:30 so you always know if he is looking to cut your retreat path.
The full Teemo vs Ryze 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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