Talk:Teemo/@comment-5907289-20131115011909/@comment-5907289-20131115232305

QSS was the third (big) item I bought. And everyone noticed he was roaming since we kept stepping into his shrooms. Their jungle, sides of lanes, eventually our jungle, ... Mid lane bought oracles, our support bought oracles mostly for ourselves. As carries if me or Brand (mid) survived a fight we might as well recall on the spot, lest we step in a shroom with 1/3 HP. Running away from a homeguard Syndra seems a death sentence, since if we run from her, we might step on a shroom and die anyway. I can QSS one shroom, try to barrier another, hope to spellshield a random one when I enter a brush, and those are all my options.

We could crush him easily indeed, I could solo him with QSS Barrier, in a fair fight. If he jumps me from stealth or a brush he has a big lead of course. But what if he just remains in stealth, until one of his shrooms force someone to back, kill that person and run away. If we are grouped up, multiple people are hit by the shroom and someone is chunked heavily.

In my opinion there is little to no counterplay. Buy oracles/QSS and hope he isn't smart enough to shroom the edge of a brush, because than an oracle doesn't suffice, you'll have to pink each brush you walk in to be safe.

It's a weird sort of poke, a Nidalee spear you can only dodge by throwing money at it.