Teemo Rework: Full List of Changes Possibly Coming to League of Legends
By Bryant Chang
Teemo rework was announced by League of Legends Senior Champion Designer Riot Jag has gone live on the League of Legends PBE. This announcement was made Friday on Teemo's 10th birthday
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Teemo Rework: Full List of Changes Possibly Coming to League of Legends
The developers wanted to give Teemo more poison abilities and ways to sneak around the enemy. They also want him to be more relevant for higher tier players and less powerful at lower ranks. To do this, Teemo's Toxic Shot is now a passive ability and can synergies with other poison abilities. Guerilla Warfare and Blind have been balanced and of course, Teemo will have access to more mushrooms.
Specifically, Teemo is buffed by poison stacking, the ability to stealth while moving, blinding the enemy, and more mushrooms to plant. But he will need to give up a significant portion of the damage he can lay down, as mushrooms and blinding dart have been nerfed in this fashion. Teemo now has camouflage, not true invisibility. The Guerilla Warfare now scales with E instead of level. Overall, these changes will make Teemo more suited to organized team play. These changes are still being monitored and tested on the PBE so there is no guarantee if all of these changes will make the live game.
Riot has also added the new Ahri prestige skin and Arclight Brand skin to the PBE.
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