@WarSpam Yeah I initially used rylais but now pretty much only take frozen mallet. I still think rylais is a maybe a viable option for the large amount of health and AP it offers, but I was thinking of removing it from the guide since I personally never take it anymore.

Rylais is so damn expensive because of it's great utility passive. Teemo's shrooms have a slow which doesn't stack with rylais and teemo's E doesn't proc rylais. So only teemo's Q proc's the slow of rylais.

Rylais just doesn't suit teemo.

Yeah I played a few games doing exactly that, and I think that's probably the best way to do it, updated the guide to reflect that. I have 0 trouble chasing, if someone starts running from me, they are generally already dead :P But it's for the times that they don't start running that I take exhaust instead of ignite, not dying is more important than getting kills, and I think with the pretty much all in offensive with runes/masteries and build its a good idea to have at least a little bit of a defensive option.

When I've had success with it so far, I've been getting the core three, and then sometimes a giant's belt next. I find that I tend to need more survivability as opposed to damage after I get Malady+Liandry's+Hurricane, since I'm already doing so much dps. And I don't usually have trouble chasing people with Teemo because of Move Quick. I take Ignite instead of Exhaust because I play him to get kills, but you should have even less trouble catching people with Exhaust, so I don't know that Phage is necessary at all.

@Yossarian42 Thanks for your input ^^ I did try a build using phage before malady and then upgrade to frozen mallet later, but it wasn't working as well as this one, maybe because I built phage first item? And for the boots I just upgrade them to defensive ones since I've already bought half of them with my starting items. Can see your point though. Will definitely try out those starting items and will probably update my item builds section to include frozen mallet, just gotta figure out whens best to build it :P

I also build Frozen Mallet sometimes, instead of Rylai's, since it works well with Hurricane, applying a slow to all three targets.

Made an account on Solomid just to like this guide. This build is insanely strong right now on Teemo. I'm in the 1400s right now, and have been using a build very similar to this successfully in Ranked for the past few days. A few notes: I personally don't think that the boots matter too much; zerkers and sorcs both increase your damage output, so almost any pair will work. Good starting items that you may want to try out and consider are: Crystalline Flask + 1 Sight Ward + 5 pots, or two wards and 3 pots.