How to win lane as Trundle against Teemo · 52.05% win rate over 219 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Teemo | Teemo's passive Guerrilla Warfare lets him sit in brush and enter camouflage, then Q blind you the instant you walk up — you cannot trade at level 1 without eating a blinded auto-cancelled Chomp. |
| Level 2 | Teemo | At level 2 he adds E poison to the kit: every auto now stacks Noxious Trap-level DoT, and his move-speed passive makes chasing with W a losing proposition before you have Pillar. |
| Level 3 | Teemo | Level 3 with Q+W+E he can blind-kite-poison in one smooth sequence; your Pillar is the only disruptor, but he has enough map awareness to sidestep it if you telegraph the cast. |
| Levels 4-5 | Tahm Kench | Levels 4-5 are still Teemo-favoured but Pillar of Ice becomes more threatening — a well-placed pillar behind him forces a slow walk-around that your W movement speed can potentially close, and jungle pressure is your primary win condition here. |
| Level 6 | Teemo | Subjugate at level 6 is nearly useless against Teemo's low resistance pool — you gain almost nothing from the drain, he blinds your Chomp autos and walks away under his own passive speed, and the window closes without a kill. |
| First item | Teemo | First item Iceborn Gauntlet gives you the Frost slow field on Chomp empowered autos, which is the one mechanic that can stick to Teemo through his move-speed kite — but he still opens every trade with blind, so you must exhaust his Q cooldown first. |
| Two+ items | Teemo | At two or more items Teemo's shrooms blanket every chokepoint and his poison scales with AP if he builds it — your sustain cannot keep up with the persistent damage across an entire side lane, and Subjugate still provides almost no stat theft against his squishy frame. |
Teemo wins levels 1 through 3 cleanly because his Q blind fires faster than your Chomp, and the moment your auto is cancelled you have no trade pattern left — the AS steal never procs and the poison ticks back more than your passive heals. Do not step into his auto range to trade unless you can catch him mid-animation; instead last-hit with Chomp at its maximum range and accept that he gets free poke. Your only real threat in this window is landing Pillar behind him when he over-commits forward, which is rare — Teemo players know to stay at range and only step up on your cooldowns.
The full Trundle vs Teemo 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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