How to win lane as Teemo against Sylas · 52.01% win rate over 1,440 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sylas | Sylas's passive Petricite Burst detonates off your E poison tick and his Q poke deals roughly even damage before your blind is meaningful — farm safe and do not force a 1-for-1 auto trade. |
| Level 2 | Sylas | His W Kingslayer heals a significant portion of what your E poison dealt, erasing the small level-1 chip lead — stay at max range and hold Blinding Shot for an all-in rather than blowing it on poke. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Q now max-ranked by level 3 makes his E-dash all-in high-risk: blind as he recast-pulls, his empowered autos miss, and your full E poison stack runs while he takes the damage with no heal yet. |
| Levels 4-5 | Teemo | Shroom-zone the tribush and river so Sylas must walk into vision denial to trade; Q on the E-dash arrival and disengage with W before his W Kingslayer can heal — you control every engagement frame. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Level 6 gives you mushroom acceleration across the map; note Sylas's stolen R cooldown before all-ins but use the shroom net to make his half of the top-side jungle hostile terrain regardless. |
| First item | Teemo | Liandry's turns your E DoT into a burn loop his W heal cannot fully erase in a trade-and-run pattern — force short exchanges and let the damage tick do work after you disengage with W. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | Two Teemo items mean shroom detonations plus Liandry's burn delete any intruder; Sylas's Riftmaker spike is real but he must walk into your field to reach you — play the split and make him come to you. |
Sylas owns the first two levels in a way most AP tops do not. His passive Petricite Burst charges a stored auto off any spell hit — including your E poison tick — meaning a single auto exchange can detonate a fully empowered burst before you finish walking out. At level 1 that burst plus his Q poke trades roughly even against your AA-poke; at level 2 his W Kingslayer heals a big chunk of what you dealt, erasing the poke lead you thought you banked. Play these first two levels as a farming phase: last-hit at maximum auto range, drop one E poke if he steps up, and save Blinding Shot for the moment he walks in to all-in you rather than spending it on chip.
The full Teemo vs Sylas 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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