@Riot Old Teemo Abilities?

Meep Man·Oct 30, 2014·15 votes·6,289 views

Bombardment

Exhaustive Dart

Mechnobot

Sharpshooter

Tactical Strike

Eagle Eye (Innate): Teemo’s eyes can see far into the distance; his sight range is increased.

Trailblazer (Innate): Teemo leaves a trail as he moves, revealing the fog of war and increasing the movement speed of ally champions.

I would like to know if any Riot member knows the story of these discarded and/or completely unused abilities? Also, there was this thing called Scout's Bounty as well. What is that?

24 Comments

Hi lm KalistaOct 30, 201422 votes

wow teemo used to be fucking awesome

I Main SwainOct 30, 20143 votes

I still think they should release a temporary game mode with all the original items and champions pre removal/rework

JamnonOct 31, 20141 votes

As awesome as that might be... they said this would be way too much work and they wouldn't be doing it. Sorry.

Rustling BushOct 31, 20142 votes

As awesome as that might be... they said this would be way too much work and they wouldn't be doing it. Sorry.

awesome isn't the word i would you.

I Main SwainOct 31, 20141 votes

you mean you don't want a TF with a 35 second global version of his ult that's actually his E? or jax with ap and ad scaling with eachother? or no unique passives?

Twilight DrizzleOct 31, 20141 votes

Yup, those definitely look more scout-y skills to me

TeemoHunter1337Oct 30, 201411 votes

teemo was a scout. bombard was his old shrooms but it had a 10 sec countdown to explode. his dart was a CC that made his opponent sleep for 2.25 seconds. and his mechnobot was like maokai sapling. and his tactical strike was a semi global mushroom thrower like ziggs ult.

Saint LatonaOct 30, 20141 votes

He could put enemies to sleep?

How does that even work? Is it like a stun until they take damage?

SouL1essOct 30, 20145 votes

Yes.

No wonder Merc boots included sleep as a CC effect although no champion had it as far as i know.

PikmintsOct 30, 20144 votes

Scouts Bounty (Active) – Teemo tracks an enemy champion for 30 seconds, causing the target to lose armor. If the target dies while being tracked, Teemo gains extra gold.

I want to say this was removed so that Teemo could have more of a direct role in fighting rather than saying to his team, "Hey, I'll make sure we don't lose sight of this guy for a few seconds". Like a more passive and watered down Trundle ult. Replacing them with mushrooms may have shifted his identity from being a scout a bit, but definitely contributed to him being the annoying source of damage we all know him for today.

Meep ManOct 30, 20142 votes

Remember when Teemo was tagged as a Support? Is this why? Because, according to Trailblazer, he provided additional vision and movement speed to his team as well AND according to his old Q, it was much more about the blind than the damage. That tag is suddenly making sense now.

By the way, thanks for finding out about this. Although these days, I bet this would be a legit ultimate considering it would give free armor reduction and bonus gold along with vision. I kinda hope when they ever look at Teemo, they change him away from being some relentless killer and more of the special intelligence guy he is supposed to be.

SecretAgentHulkOct 30, 20141 votes

Don't you go changing mah Teemo on me.

67chromeOct 31, 20142 votes

Remember when Teemo was tagged as a Support? Is this why?

No, all of those skills were from Alpha. Every new champ released probably has a host of skill icons divergent from their kit similar to that as well, Riot's just gotten better at cleaning them out before they hit the PBE.

Teemo at LoL's official release was the same Teemo we have now.

As for the support tag - Teemo doesn't fall into any of the existing champion archetypes very well, so the capacity to cover the entire map with wards is supportive enough to land him the tag. In seasons 1 and 2, "ward Bot" was basically what a support was anyways.

Also - Riot uses tags to designate the play style and archetype of a champion, not their lane position. The support tag doesn't mean bot-lane babysitter, it means the champion has supportive capabilities, which is vision control in Teemo's case.

Meep ManOct 31, 20141 votes

Vision control both map wise and the enemy's ability to see wise.

MarthianOct 30, 20141 votes

back then, who knows. Now, that would be so broken.

SouL1essOct 30, 20141 votes

Copied from DotA. Good grief, at least Bounty Hunter has damage and soft CC and almost perma-invis.

Sailor MintOct 30, 20146 votes

Hope you're not implying that anything in Dota is original.

SouL1essOct 30, 20141 votes

No, because different games copy different ideas all over the place.

I'm just saying that at least bounty hunter has hunter (damage and invis) traits for Track. I'm not sure how does Scout's Bounty (getting more $$) tie in with Teemo's scout theme.

Sailor MintOct 30, 20143 votes

Think about it in a survivalist kind of way. A scout out in the wild by himself, making the most out of limited available resources.

Rustling BushOct 30, 20142 votes

mechnobot sounds like a cool skill

exhaustive dart sounds like ashe w, proably replaced with toxic dart to not be a copy

bombardment looks like the gates of hell have been open and the world is being cracked like a egg (which makes total sense, cause teemo)

and tactical strike sounds like something for ziggs, maybe teemo was originally going to be ziggs, bombarment and mecnobot may i had something to do with ziggs or hermdinger as well

edit: what teemohunter1337 said, i know nothing