What if Teemo's Q inflicted Nearsight instead of Blind?

darkdill··12 votes·6,794 views

Teemo's Blind is very binary in its effectiveness. Either it cripples autoattack-centric enemies like Tryndamere or Nasus, or it doesn't do anything against ability-users like Lissandra or Ryze. It also doesn't work consistently, such as against Illaoi's W when she uses it at range.

Just for theory, imagine that Teemo's Q were changed so that it inflicts Nearsight instead of Blind (and assume it would receive number changes to balance it out). Nearsight would be far more consistent against all kinds of opponents, rather than being oppressive or weak. Enemies who get on top of Teemo would be able to dominate him (as they should), but those who are at a distance would be disadvantaged, regardless if they're melee or ranged.

The Nearsight would also greatly enhance Teemo's tactics, allowing him to trick enemies. For instance, Teemo could Nearsight his lane opponent and then duck into one of the brushes in top lane, and then his enemy would have trouble finding him thanks to his passive. Or Teemo could throw down a mushroom while his opponent can't see, letting him more easily bait an enemy into walking into one of his mines. There's more he could do, but these would already be great improvements to his sneaky plays. Also, it would thematically fit him as well.

#This is just theoretical, so don't freak out.

21 Comments

Śhunpo10 votes

I would permaban Teemo if this were to happen.

Nearsighted is an awful mechanic to play around and it honestly feels WORSE than being stunned due to your inability to process information and let your teammates know what's happening. Graves is obviously the worst offender here.

Yes, the current blind for Teemo is oppressive, but it's better than being generally unfun to the extent as nearsighted. As stated, nearsighted is one of the more unfun forms of pseudo-CC to play around, and for Teemo to get one that's targeted? Yiiiiikes....

Zero Skill Tank2 votes

It would actually completely ruin Teemo. Nearsight if an awful mechanic in general, that's true, but only works on champions that can quickly and reliably create distance, to actually use it (i.e. both Graves has two dahes, and Quinn has a dash + kockup to break enemy dashes).

If Teemo would get nearsight instead of blind, any champion with a dash + mild cc combo would freely push him out of lane.

It's the easiest to explain it on an super-simple kit, so let's take Jax . With blind, Teemo has some chance, because he can blind Jax any time he dashes on him, which saves him a lot of damage. WIth nearsight, he would just jump on Teemo and before the stun ends and Teemo can run away far enough, he would take 2/3rd of his HP, simply because after the dash he is right on top of Teemo and nearsight does nothing until Teemo moves away.

TruelyTrueTrueth1 votes

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It would actually completely ruin Teemo. Nearsight if an awful mechanic in general, that's true, but only works on champions that can quickly and reliably create distance, to actually use it (i.e. both Graves has two dahes, and Quinn has a dash + kockup to break enemy dashes).

If Teemo would get nearsight instead of blind, any champion with a dash + mild cc combo would freely push him out of lane.

It's the easiest to explain it on an super-simple kit, so let's take Jax . With blind, Teemo has some chance, because he can blind Jax any time he dashes on him, which saves him a lot of damage. WIth nearsight, he would just jump on Teemo and before the stun ends and Teemo can run away far enough, he would take 2/3rd of his HP, simply because after the dash he is right on top of Teemo and nearsight does nothing until Teemo moves away.

But teemo has range and teemo’s Q if it were to have this nearsighted thing it would also be targeted unlike graves and Quinn plus teemo has his move speed ability near sight imo would fit teemo nicely just like op said more sneaky plays

Zero Skill Tank1 votes

Teemo's range is smaller then most targetable dashes in the game (i.e. Jax is 700).

There are no 'sneaky plays' there, with nearsight he just loses most of his HP every time his enemy dash is off cooldown.

Zone of Endless5 votes

If they did this it would have to be a skill shot like Quinn's Q. If they did that though it would suck to play teemo even more.

If they dont make it a skill shot it'd be like laning against Grave's W and I dont think anyone want that.

darkdill1 votes

Long cooldown could let you play around it.

Zone of Endless7 votes

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Long cooldown could let you play around it.

it's one of his main harass tool. You give it longer cooldown and he'll be even weaker.

darkdill3 votes

So wait, his poisoned attacks aren't enough harass?

Zone of Endless5 votes

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So wait, his poisoned attacks aren't enough harass?

it's the Q+AA poison attack that make teemo's harass strong. You increase his CD on Q with these changes then his harass become a lot weaker than it is.

darkdill1 votes

Then give him power in other ways.

GBkiwi2 votes

As soon as I see a teemo top pick , I take Cass.

Fight poison with poison ☠️

The Letter H2 votes

I remember seeing talk about how Teemo was originally supposed to have a sleep dart but instead was given a blinding one due to riot lacking the technology to produce that at the time.

If that's true, and now that Zoe has sleep, I think it'd be interesting giving Teemo a sleeping dart, though a point and click sleep sounds very powerful.

Inkling Commando1 votes

yes. it should nearsight. i found out that if it Blinds Azir then his Sand Soldiers cannot attack while he is blind effectively shutting him down for a couple of seconds allowing Teemo to finish the job or let a teammate do that. and if he Blinds Graves then all 4-6 shots will miss which is damn near impossible when they scatter. and any magic casters can just shrug it off while their aoe spells continue to hit.

darkdill1 votes

Exactly. Against some Champions, Blind is completely oppressive and breaks them, but against most it proves to be highly ineffective.

Mighty Mortein1 votes

Teemo needs like an Ezreal level update. Nothing too major. An improved W, VFX changes for his lower tier skins and a slight change to his E and Q and I'd be happy.

DerMangoJoghurt1 votes

I think Blind's are weird thematically in general. First of all, you can still see everything, doesn't sound blind to me. You can still attack, only your attacks magically vanish when they hit enemies. It looks so weird for Teemo to get hit in the face by a giant axe and he's just like "Nah, didn't hit me. You're blind.".

ZackTheWaffleMan1 votes

The way it works for Graves makes a little bit more sense. When Graves attacks while blinded, he just does a 180 and shoots backwards.

Ranmaru1 votes

So rename teemo to quinn?

Pika Fox1 votes

Hell no. He would be satan incarnate, and frustrating as fuck to play with. I already hate graves w and how tilting it is to not be able to see literally anything inside it, then getting screwed by random skillshots you cant dodge.

Moody P1 votes

Consistency isn't a good thing and counters are completely fine

And nearsight is stupid.

Salamencę1 votes

Yeah instead of crippling AA based champs let's just fucking cripple everyone

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