What should my teemo uild look like?

Omega T33mo·Jan 23, 2016·2 votes·497 views

Trying to be like ivan pavlov lol i usually have frost queens, hextech blade, liandrys, boots of swiftness, nashor tooth and rabadons/zhonyas/Lich bane? Which should i be rushing? Should i swap anything out

3 Comments

FantasySniperJan 23, 20161 votes

I like to go the pure AP route and forgo the Nashor's. It tends to be difficult for him to survive late-game, especially against assassin-esque champions, so going burst helps reduce that risk. Zhonya's can replace Luden's if you're really worried about your personal safety. item 3151 item 3020 item 3135 item 3285 item 3100 item 3089

Almighty TeemoJan 23, 20161 votes

Did you check his guide? It shows the build order.

The thing about ivan's build is that it works only because he is generally a safe and an experienced teemo player. He knows when to freeze and when to back off. He is GREAT at dodging skillshots, he kites like a baws.

His guide is a product of days of testing with different builds and playstyles(he tried all possible builds with teemo), and while this is probably the best build you can find for teemo, you may not have much success with it if you are a Teemo beginner. Here's why:

He gets swifties because he plays in such a way so as to avoid getting caught in a hard 1v2 situation. If you do not have the skills to avoid tight fights and you often get caught then you are better off with the other conventional teemo boots. This is why his guide is so much downvoted; they don't understand how he plays and rush to conclusions. His guide only works for people who already have an understanding of teemo.

Another example is why he does not go for rageblade. He prefers teamfighting over split-pushing and rageblade is hard to stack in tfs with teemo. Most other players believe teemo is a split-pushing champion, they follow his guide and just go splitting all day and fail at it. They will then strongly believe that this guide is bad. Also his teemo build is not great if you want to push hard early; Full AP teemo is much better at that because when the enemy jungler ganks AP teemo has better chance of pulling a lucky kill before dying, or high-damage mushrooms deter the jungler from ganking.

Another example again is me not liking mercurial scimitar. It is because i always get confused with item actives and forget to use it when needed. But it is undeniable that this item is great against half of the champions in the current meta

So, if you want to play with this build, look at his games first, adopt his playstyle and play like an adc in tfs, else going full AP or on-hit bruiser is much better.

Darkslayer85Jan 23, 20161 votes

I like getting an Archangels because the extra mana really helps you with the shrooms, while giving you a shield to block out any damage that isn't affected by the blind, while giving you crazy amounts of AP