League of Legends: Wild Rift Teemo Poison Build Guide

To maximize Teemo's poison damage in League of Legends: Wild Rift, pair Liandry’s Torment with Rylai’s Crystal Scepter. This item combination relies on Teemo's ability power scaling to transform basic attacks and traps into sustained area-of-effect damage while slowing enemies during skirmishes and objective fights.

Core Item Synergies

Teemo's primary damage output relies on applying persistent damage-over-time effects to enemy targets. Equipping Liandry's Torment and Rylai's Crystal Scepter turns his passive poison ticks into defensive and offensive utility.

• Liandry’s Torment: Deals percentage-based maximum health damage whenever enemies take poison damage. Because Teemo applies poison through basic attacks and his Noxious Trap ultimate, this burn scales effectively against high-health targets and tanks.
• Rylai’s Crystal Scepter: Applies a continuous slow whenever poison damage hits an enemy. Because Teemo's poison damage persists over several seconds, Rylai's keeps targets slowed for the entire duration of the effect, making it difficult for enemies to escape or close the distance.

Map Control and Noxious Trap Placement

Teemo operates best by controlling space around major neutral objectives like Dragons and Baron Nashor. Before these objectives launch, set up defensive perimeter traps at key vision points.

1. Cover Chokepoints: Place Noxious Traps in narrow jungle pathways and river brush surrounding active objectives.
2. Use Invisibility to Reposition: After laying traps, enter stealth to change your location without revealing your position on the mini-map.
3. Exploit Trap Triggers: When an enemy triggers a Noxious Trap, they take burn damage, suffer a slow, and are temporarily revealed. Use this vision window to allow your team to initiate or secure the objective safely.

Teamfight Rules and Power Spikes

In teamfights, treat Teemo as a secondary damage dealer rather than a front-line initiator or single-target burst assassin.

• Spread Poison Across Targets: Avoid focusing down a single enemy tank. Instead, attack multiple target champions to apply Liandry's percentage health burn across the entire opposing team.
• Peel for the Backline: If an enemy assassin or bruiser dives your backline, use poison-coated attacks to keep them slowed via Rylai's effect, making them vulnerable to your team's hard crowd control.
• Respect Power Spikes: Teemo relies heavily on completing his first two items. Play defensively and focus on safe farming during the early laning phase.
• Manage Resources and Squishiness: Constant trap placement drains mana quickly. Furthermore, this build provides minimal defensive stats, so improper positioning away from your trap line will lead to rapid deaths.