The state of teemo.
So i know i keep making "teemo is underpowered" threads, but this really speaks to what's wrong with him. I stopped playing him all the time when i'm top. Now i play ap shaco. Since the last time i Played shaco, his abilities all been tweaked again. And now I'm doing better. I feel stronger, I feel like i have a lot more outplay potential and the tools to carry if i get ahead. This is wrong. Shaco is a champ who I'm pretty experienced on, but not in his current iteration. And i'm nowhere near as experienced as i am on teemo. Yet all the same i feel stronger. When I'm behind, i can farm and get items, build basically just ap, similar items to what i built on teemo, but ludens instead of nashors. And then i become relevant again. On teemo if youre behind, that's it, youre kinda fucked unless you can make it to late get void and rabadons. And when i'm ahead on teemo, i don't feel nearly as strong. I don't feel like i can take control of the game as well.
Shaco and teemo are kind of similar. Assassins with a stealth and traps. Champions who are annoying and who pop out of nowhere and blow your squishies up. I feel like the difference is shaco's traps can stack damage, and melee champs can't disable those traps, even with a red ward or sweeper, shaco gets execute damage, has better mobility, hard cc, and, shaco has a higher base MS, one of the highest in the game. I know teemo's w makes him generally faster, but, if he takes one point of damage, that speed bonus becomes null. Teemo needs something to become relevant. There is so much %hp damage in the game, a lot of the times in people's kit. Why can't teemo have that? Or built in execute damage. Lots of champs get that too? Why can't he have more base MS, or make it so the passive on his w isn't lost if he takes champion damage? He is the "swift scout" after all. Why can't he get true damage in his kit? Or MR reduction? I have to do backflips as teemo to do what other champs can do easily.