Teemo vs Zaahen Counter Pick

Few things make the case for shutting down the lane early like Zaahen’s scaling. He opens with 640 HP and 36 armor and ends at 2,578 and 121, and each time he lands on an enemy champion, Cultivation of War adds bonus attack damage. Teemo’s 57.0% over 781 games on patch 16.13.1 is banked long before that scaling comes online.

• Reach is 500 versus 175, so Dreaded Return must land its stab and pull before The Darkin Glaive can heal from the target.
• Zaahen deals purely physical damage, meaning early armor pays off against everything he does; Teemo divides his damage between poison and ability damage.
• Move speed sits at 345 to 330, and paired with Aureate Rush, escaping has to be set up in advance rather than done on instinct.
• Health reads 615 versus 640 at level one and 2,383 versus 2,578 by level eighteen; that difference grows in step with his Determination stacks.
• Difficulty rating is 2 for one side and 6 for the other, a rare gap for a matchup where the harder champion has the edge.

Healing turns one bad trade into a bad lane, because Zaahen recovers health through both The Darkin Glaive and Grim Deliverance. Poke that doesn’t end in a kill or a forced wave loss gets handed right back, so place mushrooms behind him and along the routes he uses to retreat, not out in front. Full stats for the champion are on the Zaahen profile page.