Should Scuttle Crab Detonate Teemo Shrooms?

Basically, Scuttle Crab counters everything about Teemo's only real play style of creating death nests at dragon and Baron. I'd say that they should make Scuttle crab not trigger them since it doesn't attack you. Basically, Teemo shrooms should only trigger if an enemy unit steps on it. That and if he actually gets random free kills like this one in the vid showed it isn't working fairly for anyone.

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No they shouldn't. I know everyone is conditioned to hate Teemo and call him Satan, etc, but he's actually a below-average champion right now. A while ago his shrooms got a MASSIVE nerf, 80% AP ratio -> 50% AP ratio and he never got anything to compensate. His range is much lower than any other range, his abilities are the same, he's insanely squishy and vulnerable to even a weak CC, and now he can't shroom river properly, which used to be one of the best places to shroom.

Hate on me all you want, but bring facts to back it up.

Teemo just keep getting nerfs (direct and indirect) every season without any buffs to compensate, so of course now he's a below-average champion.

He needs a rework for sure. His 2009 design is really outdated and his kit is so boring.

Passive : A really boring passive that force you to stay passive in order to get a short AS boost...really...

Q : Blind is almost gone from this game, why should he keep it? It's too binary in it's effectiveness. Too good VS AA. Useless VS spells.

W : Moving faster around the map is nice, but that active is so weak, and it's only there since you lose the passive when hit.

E : sigh Another passive ability. Only good for early game poke since the damage does not scale well at all with levels past level 9 (and even with items).

R : This thing is just so problematic that Riot just nerf it over and over. An invisible mine that does AoE damage/slow. Nobody likes playing against that. And with how many nerfs it got and the addition of that crab, nodody like playing with it either.

Also, since the release of Gnar, there is almost no reason to play Teemo over him.

I am a Teemo only player who plays in Diamond. In season 2 I have been world's #1 Teemo, and I have seen Teemo become a great or bad champion depending on the state of the game. Currently I do not think Teemo is a below-average champion. I think it's hard for other people to judge him because his playstyle is very, very different from most other champions. I went from Diamond 5 to Diamond 3 really fast by carrying many games. I can't speak for tournament play, but that's probably not what you were talking about either. My alt account is Challenger on LAN, playing only Teemo, and I am regarded as the best Teemo in Latin America North even though I am not Latino. All the people's opinions on Teemo in this thread really rub me the wrong way. People have always said he's underpowered except for the brief moments in history where he was blatantly overpowered. He isn't underpowered. He is underplayed, and it is hard for people to master him (learning shroom positioning, most importantly), so calling him underpowered is really an excuse for not being to estimate his real power.

He literally got replaced with as the troll of top lane. It's time teemo gets some buffs gasp yes, buffs surprisingly teemo does need it as he has "clear" weaknesses unlike , top laners with tons of Hard CC.

he is below awerage ballance wise

but ppl never hated him for his power

his kit is just toxicity incarnate

It sure looks enormous in this case, doesn't it?

if this gif is legit, it would appear the blast radius originates at the center of the unit that triggered it. its supposed to be a 200 range blast, but that champ was more than 200 range from the point of the shrooms center for sure

Wards yes, shrooms no

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Should that be OP because you stood too close? I could be wrong but, I think they blow up around the character who hits it. So if a full stacked Cho'Gath stepped on it, wouldn't it be possible for it to have a bigger radius due to the bigger character? The bug is pretty big.

Anyways, I think Teemo should be praised for putting that mushroom there. Not punished because you couldn't use a sweeper/pink. Teemo is already underplayed, why nerf him more?

Have you seen the new Teemo skin on Youtube? It's blast radius particle effect is much more clear, and it's actually pretty huge! But basically, I THINK this is how it works: in the center of the blast radius, you take instant burst damage, and then you get the poison effect. On the outer edges of the blast, I believe you don't take the burst damage, but you do still get the DoT poison, which I believe is what happened in this GIF.

EDIT: I'm wrong about the burst damage, the shroom applies only DoT poison and nothing else, but I was correct about the huge range. Check out the Omega Squad Teemo videos and you'll see what I mean.