Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Teemo's Toxic Shot punishes players who get hit and back out, so stay at a safe range until you're ready to commit.
It can be valuable to use Oracle's Lens(Trinket) to destroy mushrooms around key locations.
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Zed against Teemo matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Teemo’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Teemo. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Teemo. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Teemo, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter for Teemo.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Teemo, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Teemoas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Teemo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Teemo matchups, Teemo is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a terribly counter to Teemo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Teemo.
To truly master Zed in order to counter Teemo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Teemo. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Teemo build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Teemo than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.0% battling Teemo with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Teemo as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Triple Tonic, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zed vs Teemo battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Teemo as Zed are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.