Talk:Teemo/@comment-5763148-20130805140131/@comment-10167113-20130808200323

Teemo is not a late game champ. He is notoriously bad at teamfights in comparison to his peers (due to his short range).

Early game he can be good depending on who he is against. Teemo against someone with a strong gap closer and decent burst to follow it up will eat you alive. Focus on farming and shutting down your hopefully auto-attack reliant enemy, while placing mushrooms in places where you can trick your oponent into walking into (the computer created auto path everyone walks on actually makes people hug walls when they are turning so take advantage of this).

That being said, what you are experiencing is the very reason a lot people don't play Teemo in ranked. Teemo is definitely no Thresh, and he is outdated (not useless); though really fun to play.

I play Teemo as a split pusher, I get the turret damage thingy in my masteries, some scaling AD in my runes (since I play him AP {despite the nerf}), Teleport, Runaan (for instant lane clear), mobility boots and I just destroy turrets. They can never keep up with me, and since I can Tele to my shrooms I am literally everywhere. It's important to remember that this game is not about kills, it's about destroying and controlling objectives; kills just make this easier.

...so sorry about the wall of text, and ironically apologizing isn't making this any better :P