Teemo vs Zaahen Counter Pick

Zaahen’s growth curve is the clearest argument for closing the lane early. He starts at 640 HP and 36 armor and finishes at 2,578 and 121, while Cultivation of War adds attack damage every time he touches an enemy champion. Teemo’s 57.0% over 781 games on patch 16.13.1 is earned well before that curve matters.

• Range: 500 against 175. Dreaded Return has to stab and pull before The Darkin Glaive can heal off the target.
• Damage type: entirely physical from Zaahen, so armor bought early scales against his whole kit, while Teemo splits his output between poison and ability damage.
• Movement: 345 against 330, which combined with Aureate Rush means disengage has to be planned rather than improvised.
• Health: 615 against 640 at level one and 2,383 against 2,578 by eighteen, a gap that widens exactly as his Determination stacks accumulate.
• Difficulty: a listed 2 against a 6, an unusually wide spread for a matchup the harder kit is winning.

Sustain converts a lost trade into a lost lane, since Zaahen heals on both The Darkin Glaive and Grim Deliverance. Chip damage that is not turned into a kill or a lost wave is simply refunded, so mushrooms belong behind his position and on the paths back to it rather than in front of him. The Zaahen profile lists the rest of his numbers.