The Freljord is an unforgiving place, a mountainous land covered in snow and ice. Travel, especially in the winter, can be very dangerous. The elements often claim even those who have spent their entire lives there. The boy known as Nunu is one of those who fell prey to such tragedy. One day when he was a young child, Nunu rode on his father’s back as they returned from a trapping expedition in the mountains. An unexpected blizzard came upon them, forcing them to seek refuge in a cave. The tempest lasted for days. Nunu’s father had to leave to find food, but never returned. Eventually the blizzard cleared and the young child lay dying on the mountainside. Fortunately, this was the land of the yetis, powerful beasts with whom Nunu’s father had secured an arrangement for safe passage. A young yeti boy named Willump found Nunu and brought him home. From then on, Nunu was raised by the yetis. When the League of Legends was formed, the yetis knew they needed a champion. Riding his brother Willump, Nunu became that champion.

Ah yes, Nunu, one of the tank mages in the game. It is very hard to decide whether you would want to go full tank with Nunu or full AP. Although it is best to have a mix of both, in some games you have no choice but to go full out tank, and other games you have to go full AP. The thing that makes Nunu a hero is his ulti- the big white circle of rape. A very big problem with this ulti is that it requires a decent amount of thought process. This ulti need chanelling so you have to know when to hit it, otherwise you will just be stunned, prisoned or taunted out of it. The cooldown of the ulti is not that bad really, but it would not hurt to get just one cooldown reduction item. In some games, you would have to sacrifice yourself to be the focus of the other team when you pop your ulti. Other times, there are tanks that will drag the attention of the enemy and then you must rush in and ulti rape with a lot of AP. If your opposing team has a lot of crowd control heroes, it would be best to go more on tank. If the have just a couple, then going all out mage AP will really, really really hurt them. Mage, tank or both- that’s Nunu for you. Vlad IS  mage-tank- you, however, can choose.

Stats

Always remember that Nunu is support. There are some games where you just manage to rape and then you can pretty much become mage assassin. You rely on your abilities- your melee attack does almost no damage at all.  Your job is to increase your DPS’s attack and movement speed, ulti in groupfights, throw snowballs at any faggot escapers and eat minions. Pretty simplyeh?

Consume - The Yeti takes a bite out of target minion, dealing heavy damage to it and restoring his own health.

Takes a bite out of target minion, dealing 500/600/700/800/900 true damage and restoring 125/180/235/290/345 (+1) health.

Cost   60/60/60/60/60 Mana     Range 100

Well, you pretty much just eat a minion. You get back a decent amount of health and you deal a lot of damage to the minion. Very good for laning early on but pretty useless late game. Don’t forget to gobble up a minion nearby in a fight if you are low on health. Barely costs any mana mid to late game.

Blood Boil - Invigorates an allied unit and Nunu by heating their blood, increasing attack speed and movement speed.

Increases an allied unit’s attack speed by 25/35/45/55/65% and movement speed by 11/12.5/13/14.5/15% for 15 seconds. Nunu also gains the effects of Bloodboil if casted on an allied unit.

Cost   50/50/50/50/50 Mana    Range  700

If you got a DPS, spam this ability to him. Also use it frequently on yourself- it does not cost much to use, the bonus speed is a plus. But please prioritize this ability on a DPS instead of yourself- you are a tank.

Ice Blast - Nunu throws a ball of ice at an enemy unit, dealing damage and slowing their movement speed for 4 seconds.

Nunu throws a ball of ice at an enemy unit, dealing 85/130/175/225/275 (+1) magic damage and slowing their movement speed by 40/45/50/55/60% and attack speed by 25% for 4 seconds.

Cost   75/85/95/105/115 Mana    Range   550

Very very good for chasing down opponents. Another very good spam ability which only costs 115 mana at most. 40-60% slow is nothing to joke about; more so if it is for 4 seconds and only about a 6 second cooldown.

Absolute Zero - Nunu begins to sap the area of heat, gradually slowing all nearby enemies. When the ability ends, he deals massive damage to all enemies caught in the area.

While channeling for 3 seconds, slows nearby enemy units’ attack speed and movement speed. After channeling, enemies caught in the area are dealt 625/875/1125 (+2.5) magic damage.

Cost   150/150/150 Mana   Range  550

Damage is indeed massive- 1125 + whatever ability power you have*2.5. A full AP Nunu can pretty much nuke a tank down to nearly half health- for real. The bitchy thing is the 3 second channel. Time this ulti properly, making sure that you will not get out of its channel, and you will rape. Request allies to focus the attention of enemies or you use yourself to grab their attention. This is why you would have to be there every group fight, you will be very much needed. If you have a Galio on your team, then your ulti and his can pretty much nuke your enemies down to almost nothing; an Amumu would not be bad as well but then his ulti does no damage. Galio and Nunu- it cannot get any better than that.

Visionary - Nunu can cast a spell for free after 7 attacks.

Very useful- would ensure that you would never run out of mana. If you DO have mana problems, then something is really wrong with the way you are playing. Your first 2 abilities cost almost nothing and your next 2 don’t cost much at all. Moreover, if you have no mana and your visinoary is on- you can even cast your ulti. You should worry more about cooldown reduction for your snowball and for your ulti instead of mana- Nunu has plenty of mana to spare.

One more thing that you can do with Nunu is to jungle early on. With consume, you can heal yourself very often. Get consume as your first ability and then get a snowball and bloodboil. You can pretty much spam eating minions, snowballs and attack and movement speed. Make sure that you max out the snowball though so that they would hurt as they should come ganking time lvl6. Nunu is only second to Warwick when it comes to jungling early game- tied with Fiddlestix with Amumu in 4th place.

Items

Game’s recommended items

As you can see, pretty much a very tanky build. I would prefer having SOME ap so that you can actually HURT your opponents. However, as mentioned before, this is quite risky especially if you always get stunned the F*** out of it. Getting a purely tank build is the safest way to go and that’s why they are on recommended items. I prefer to have some fun and get a mix of tankiness and ability power, especially if you have Galio or Amumu on your team. After all, we do play for fun now don’t we?

Doran’s ring is a very good starting item. You would definitely have to sell this in the foreseeable future. Like I said, you should maximise your rune pages and get at 100 mana and the rest AP. This 100 mana is good enough to make sure that you still have enough left in you early on to make that one final ability count. The AP is so that your snowballs hurt. You can then get a Ruby Crystal for that extra health to make sure that you don’t die and then you can get your Banshees faster. I don’t recommend getting banshees first. Get the crystal then get  boots  and maybe save up for a giants belt or a Amplifying tome or a blasting wand if you can afford it. Then complete your treads so that you have that itty bit of magic resist on you. You might want to get sorcerer’s shoes if you already have a couple of hybrid tanks on your team. Finish up your catalyst before its passive becomes useless.

So you should have

which will build into banshees, ,  A belt , a tome and a blasting wand . If you pull of your ulti without any disturbance, this would be a better build for you instead of going all out tank. You can build the catalyst into banshees, the wand and the tome can be build into a void staff so that you can deal damage. You can then get another belt and build into Rylais scepter NOT for slow, which will not come in handy since your snowball and ulti are already natural slowers, but more importantly for the balance of health and AP. You can then build your other belt into sunfire and then get a guardian angel for good measure. The mana that you get from banshees if MORE than enough to sustain you the entire game. This would be the ideal build for Nunu, if you are able to handle your enemies crowd control abilities. Rylais is the most questionable item here because you are pretty much DO NOT need its passive, but it is the only item in the game that gives you a balance of health and AP- haunting guise is an early item which you would probably have to sell- so why waste the gold when you are in a rush for time.

If your enemies are heavy stunners and you get stunned too often doing your ulti- go for the full tank build. However, if they are not, take the risk with this build- where you can actually deal some damage.

Runes and Masteries- Runes should either be all AP, or with 100 mana so that you will not run out of snowballs early on. Masteries should be all utilities and the rest if defense.

Summoner spells- Flash would be very useful so that you can  blink to the middle of the teamfight and ulti- better with banshess so that the stunner who is gonna stun you becomes useless. Other would be cleanse to escape from anything.

Ability sequence- early laning would require E Q E W E R..then prioritize R E W Q, as your first ability become pretty much useless late game.

Get a galio to go with you and you will highly increase your chances of winning- nuff said.

As far as yordles are concerned, there is something slightly wrong with Teemo. While he enjoys – and in fact needs – the level of community and companionship inherent to all yordles, Teemo feels it so strongly that he ventures out on his own to destroy the enemies of Bandle City. There is something that switches off in Teemo, so that the lives he ends do not burden him. It seemed only logical to send him to fight in the League of Legends as the champion of Bandle City. He has taken to the League like a duck to water, seeking out the foes of the yordles and extinguishing them with the rare ajunta poison he personally gathers from the jungles of Kumungu. However, the limited company of his own kind wears on Teemo, and cracks are beginning to show in his innocent and chipper fade.

Teemo was arguably one of the most popular heroes when LoL started out. However, he has become less popular because he is pretty damn hard to play with. Do not be fooled by the immensely cute stature, laugh and voice, this dude is not that easy to play. Sure, his abilities are pretty straightforward but somehow, it is quite rare to find a real ownage teemo nowadays than in the days of yore. The one problem teemo has is that he is very susceptible to magic, especially from mages the likes or Ryze. However, Teemo is immensely fun to play with, and with the right skills, you can own.

Stats

Teemo is not that hard to play, but this is the one character with which you have to play with your brains. He is mainly a support character and would need a tank to do all the dirty work. He is not a fighter; he cannot really own 1 on 1 mid to late game, although he is a DPS’s worst nightmare early on. Lets take a look.

Dart - Obscures an enemy’s vision with a powerful venom, dealing damage to the target unit and causing all attacks to miss for the duration.

Deals 80/125/170/215/260 (+0.8) magic damage and causes the target to miss all of their attacks for 1.5/2/2.5/3/3.5 seconds.

Cost   70/80/90/100/110 Mana    Range 680

A decent blind, this was nerfed because the earlier one started with a 2 second blind and pretty much spelled rape for DPS like Ashe. The .5 difference makes it for viable for a decent fight. This Ability is not that great late game and is useless against mages. Early on against DPS you will almost definitely take them down to 10-15% health but it is really hard for you to finish them off, unlike some other heroes. You would need help from a teamate to be able to kill, remember you are this small thing that just keeps on shooting while nobody pays attention- and in a group fight, with all the effects and visual distractions, your small size really does help.

Move Quick - Teemo scampers around, increasing his movement speed until he is struck by an enemy champion or turret.

Toggle: Teemo’s movement speed is increased by 15/20/25/30/35% until he is struck by an enemy champion or turret.

Cost40 Mana to Activate     Range 20

Does not seem to be as useful as having a longer blind or more poison in your darts, but this ability is quite necessary. Coupled with boots of mobility, your speed becomes unmatchable, you are basically ghosting the whole time. However, with how the game is played nowadays, this ability’s usefulness would depend from game to game. Sure it would get to to places in less than half the time after a good team fight, but then you should be careful to not get hit by enemy champions., otherwise you are just as slow as other people. However, with this ability, you would not have to get teleport or ghost, and you can easily dump your mushrooms everywhere.

Toxic Shot - Each of Teemo’s attacks will poison the target, dealing damage each second for 4 seconds.

Teemo’s basic attacks poison their target, dealing 8/14/21/28/35 (+0.14) magical damage upon impact and again each second for 4 seconds.

Cost   Passive   Range 1

Pretty self-explanatory here. Really good for those enemies with really no health. However, not as effective as ignite. Still, you should be able to take your opponent down to almost nothing, so you can take something more useful than ignite.

Noxious Trap - Teemo places a explosive poisonous trap. If an enemy steps on the trap it will release a poisonous cloud, slowing enemies and damaging them over time.

Places a trap which detonates if an enemy steps on it, poisoning nearby enemies. Poisoned enemies take 350/500/650 (+0.8) magic damage and have their movement speed slowed by 30/40/50% for 4 seconds. Traps last 10 minutes.

Cost  75/100/125 Mana       Range  230

Yes, your mushrooms. Again, it may seem that this does not really help that much, but the initial intention of the game makers was to make this like a spam of vision wards. A good teemo would place these ALL OVER the place. Coupled with your speed, you can easily dump shrooms everywhere. This would give you a very good tactical advantage as you would know where your opponents are. the problem is that These shrooms do not deal that much damage, although it there is a slight chance that you will die stepping on one when you barely have any health left. You should either clump them up if you want to get the kill, or you can put them in places where you know that your opponents would not step on them; they will simply back off if they step on it. So, for example, when you want to dragon, you do not put it at the entrance to dragon where they would step on it and retreat. You put it at the side where they are unlikely to step on it, you then know where they are and then get your teammates ready for a rape gank. This is the reason it is his ulti, an unlimited spam of vision wards and tactical positional advantage.

Another way to use this ulti is to place it in the way of creeps. A couple of shrooms should be able to eradicate a whole group, giving you the gold for all of it. Remember, stepping on these shrooms slows you down-use that to your advantage.

Camouflage - If Teemo stands still and takes no actions for 3 seconds, he becomes stealthed indefinitely. After leaving stealth, Teemo gains the Element of Surprise, increasing his attack speed by 40% for 3 seconds.

Decent for running away or starting a gank. This used to be 5 seconds but then it was quite useless. Instead of fully running away from enemies, you can flash somewhere and then just sit pretty; they would not be able to find you. This is why teemo is quite hard to play, knowing when and how to use these simple passives can spell ownage for either you or your opponents.

Items

Recommended items

These are the game’s recommended items for teemo. I pretty much agree with all of them except the first two. Although for the ring you get mana regen, I would recommend to get a ruby crystal so that you would not have to sell the ring later on and so that you can build frozen mallet more quickly. You would have to rely on runes for the extra mana. I also do not recommend the boots of mobility because you already have more than enough speed with any normal boots plus your W ability. I would recommend mercury treads so that you have SOME magic resist and also have that 40% reduction on crowd control. Since you are weak against mages, this would be more useful and may prove the difference between you escaping with little health or dying. Moreover, your teammates would force you to group up, and rightly so, during the middle to later stages of the game. You would only need the speed to spam your ulti shrooms. The next item to get is the trickiest one of all- they are all needed for teemo. If you feel like you die a bit too fast or need extra health to stay in the battle field, then start off by building your ruby crystal into phage and getting a giants belt . Do not build it up into frozen mallet yet. Try and save up for a BF sword and a  and recurve bow . You can now choose whether you would want to build your mallet first or last whisper . After you build these two up, then go for a trinity force and then the bloodthirster. Frozen mallet should already be giving you enough health to survive. Just stack up attack damage from here on or get a banshees if the opposing team has a fed mage or has numerous crowd control abilities.

I do not recommend going AP with teemo since only your blind and ulti would benefit from it. The poison still does not do enough damage. In team fights, your ulti is pretty useless as you cannot nuke your opponent with it. Thus Attack Damage is the way to go and remember to use your ulti as enemy locators- place them everywhere so that you can bring your teammates for a good surprise gank.

Runes and Masteries- Stack up on Attack speed runes and mana runes- this should give you a decent 32% attack speed increase in the beginning and a good 100 mana for one ability. Stack up offensive masteries and whatever is remaining goes to defense.

Summoner Spells- Flash is really important for teemo and exhaust would be good since it is and extra blind&slow. Exhaust can be used to blind another champion while you blind the one your targeting.

Ability Sequence- Q, E Q W Q R …and then prioritize in this sequence- Q W R E..

Remember your job is to help gank. You are a counter for any DPS they may have but remember that mages can penetrate your anal cavity quite easily. Stay behind the tanks and tell your team to focus the DPS, as they become quite handicapped with your blind. Stay behind the lines.