Stop pretending Teemo was buffed, he was nerfed.

FistOfSharkiesha·Sep 1, 2015·7 votes·369 views

Halving the timer from 10 minutes to 5 minutes ruined Teemo's strongest asset, his map control. Additionally, his passive was most abusable early game. Now it's weaker early and stronger later, but overall I think his level 1-3 ambushing was the only thing keeping him from being absolute food for other top laners. His bomb arm time was also increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds, making it even easier to avoid the shrooms when you see him place it.

Being able to chunk a mushroom into a fight is nice, but you can only refresh the damage, it doesn't stack. His real power was unsuspecting enemies walking onto a bomb and being chunked for 30% health. Now that's half as likely since his shrooms last half as long as they used to.

tl;dr Teemo's strongest attribute was heavily nerfed and they're calling it a buff.

4 Comments

redniwediSSep 1, 20154 votes

Teemo is played differently now. If you play him like old Teemo you will be playing a nerfed champion. If you play him like new Teemo, however, you will be playing a champion that is plenty strong.

5000000000000000Sep 1, 20151 votes

His passive is so much stronger than before. If you can make use of that well (lol I can't), then you'll have 80% AS steroid with 1.5~3 second cast time (staying still).

LadyRenlySep 1, 20151 votes

5 minute mushrooms is really unbearable. If it must be 5 minutes, half the mana cost at least. It's too much of a mana sink for an ability that may or may not damage. May as well save the mana for Q harass.

But I guess at the end of the day, flashy gimmicks is all that matters.

TorkonSep 1, 20151 votes

Long time Teemo player here. 500+ games with him. First champion I played mainly. I've played him extensively throughout every season and have tried every build under the sun; tankmo, on-hit, nuclear AP, AD, etc. Flat AP still works, but honestly his best build atm is dblade start into botrk, pen boots, then liandrys.