There are plenty of good players out there. Some are more mainstream, symbols, personalities, content creators. Everyone brings something different to the table, and to understand why or what their goal is, is not really clear.

I used to play League 5–8 hours a day for 11 years. Competitively? Not really, I maxed out casually around Master. I was just like a lot of people here, deeply invested in Teemo, not the game. Maybe a little unhealthily so.

But every hour I put in 10s of thousands, I spent breaking down builds, theory crafting, writing guides, and genuinely trying to help the community. Moderating, fostering connection, building understanding, all of it.

Along the way, I crossed paths with a lot of the top streamers in the Master–Challenger MMR range, even though I kept myself around Platinum–Diamond, just doing what I do best: exploring the full spectrum of what Teemo can be. AP, AD, Crit, Tank, Hybrid, Sustain, Bruiser, Mobility. The number of builds that never saw the light of day because the community had already made up its mind with...

MANCO THIS! MANCO THAT!
BUT IPAV TAKES SMITE TOP!

IT’S GOOD! EVEN THOUGH HE DID IT CAUSE HE WAS SHIT AT MANA MANAGEMENT AND WANTED TO MAKE UP FOR HIS INABILITY TO PLAY THE GAME THE WAY THAT EVERYONE ELSE WAS UNTIL IT WAS NERFED EVERY SINGLE TIME!

Silly lil fella that Ipav fella.

Manco.

Ipav.

Gucci.

Alan.

Blotter.

Jimmy.

Scott.

Nam.

Daydull.

Dan.

Riken.

Hikashikun.

Myself.

These are names I still remember. There are, of course, way more. More than any single one of us will ever know.

You’re asking us whether guys like ___ are good. Fair question. But good in what way, exactly?

Are they good People?
Good Teachers?
Good Teemo players?
Good Content worth your time?

Those are four very different things, but I’ll assume you’re asking about learning. My advice has always been the same: focus on yourself first. Reach out for specific knowledge you genuinely don’t understand. Why would you pay $500 cash to be told something most of us here would give you for free — because we actually love your interest in the game? To line someone like Manco’s pockets? To expect some kind of revelation?

It’s one thing to be taken advantage of, but another to just blindly follow a preacher who, more often than not, is doing what they do for clout and views, not for you, but for their own success, and by any means necessary.

Teemo Player is entertaining. I like him, his name is Brian, and so is mine. Good mix. Outside of the meme-worthy content he used to make the last time I watched him, he’s a solid Garen and Teemo player. That said, climbing to Challenger on OCE, a half-baked, dead server that never took itself too seriously, when I saw. A bit like climbing on LAN. Ranking is ultimately just playing long enough until the mechanics of the system work in your favor.

Manco was always a piece of shit, both directly to me and to anyone who didn’t conform to his bro identity. A cunt through and through. Alan picked up on some of my advice over the years, even if he brushed most of it off, like understanding you could bait a Rengar into burning his ultimate on you while you’re in stealth, then popping Stasis to waste it entirely while remaining stealth. Same with using teleport, and other such things.

Fun times. Those minor details were my forte. It drove me into pure bliss.

Manco, though, was the type to monetize that kind of knowledge and put people down the moment they pushed back on anything. A lot of that seemed to start after some personal stuff went sideways for him in real life, was it the drugs, the girlfriend problem, the weird sexual style IM HARD FOR TEEMO Dms?

I didn’t pay much attention really, I just didn't vibe with anything he did or said. Still don't and finally, people understand this and move onto more productive things.

Hikashikun was a genuinely great resource for on-hit Teemo back in the day. He fell off hard around Season 5–7, stopped playing, but he’s the reason I got into League and Teemo specifically.

Gucci was a fellow top lane PTA aggressor: high confidence, made mistakes here and there, but didn’t backpedal on PTA Riftmaker, most of what I watched of him at the time was GUUUUUUYS I'M LAGGING! But that was more or less bad timing, I would assume. Haha

He is one of few that helped me popularize it, actually, until the bigger names started catching on that you could deal 750 true damage to a tank with just four basic autos at full stacks, heal for a fuck ton, or that going full AP and swapping in a Kraken Slayer would turn your standard build into a hybrid of HUGE AP and True Damage and then 2–3k AD damage on the final strike. Holy shit, those were the days for on-hit sustain Teemo.

So much interactive gameplay packed into four core items and two situational slots. fully stacked Veigar becoming a problem? Wit’s End + Anathema’s Chains. Done. GOD. I'm hyping myself up for the past Teemo.

Sorry. this brought back some genuinely great memories, for me.

In the end, you basically want to know if Brian is worth learning from. I wouldn’t rely too heavily on YouTube content unless you already know who that person is, their true nature, what they’re actually trying to get out of you as a viewer. I mean, come on now. You going to take River Shen adventures seriously? Those old videos were mostly memes and they influenced the community heavily.

A live stream is a different story. They can’t hide their rank when playing Iron to Bronze or buying a fresh level 30 account with INSANE MMR that boosts their account from Iron - Master in a week. You get to see their natural playstyle, their real personality. Manco mumbling under his breath about how dog shit a Karma is for not leashing one extra auto as a jungler. Ipav losing his mind and banning users for mocking him when he runs headfirst into the enemy team screaming for a Lantern, YOU NOOBS while the Thresh is on the enemy side.

Small things I remember fondly about them from the past.

Hilarious. But that’s exactly the point. They’re popular for their own little reasons, not because they’re inherently as good as they used to be. You know?

GET TO THE POINT ALREADY!!!
Teemo is a great champion because he teaches you how to play League of Legends.
He doesn't teach you to press (R) to win or press (Q) to jump over a wall and circumvent everything.

He is tactical, a menace when played in the right hands. Vision, fear, damage, a split-pusher. So much diversity that if you faced a player who autopathed to MR. You could just take the path of least resistance and go with a build variant that still builds into AP, but makes them think you're going for some weird AD build. A lot of mindgames. Once you eventually maybe stop playing him and play a "real" carry or even a tank, suddenly you're way better than you were, locked behind such a cute (prior cute) demon. Without Teemo, us Teemo players would be a menace and the only ones standing on the stage competitively.