Thresh vs Vex
How to Beat Vex as Thresh
based on 2,836 Thresh vs Vex matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Vex Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Vex Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vex as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Vex
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Thresh vs Vex Counter Stats
How to Counter Vex with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Thresh vs. Vex matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vex’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vex. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Vex. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Vex
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Who is Better, Thresh or Vex?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Vex, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter for Vex.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Vex, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Vexas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vex. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Vex matchups, Vex is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Vex. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Vex.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Vex during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often picks up a lot less CS as Vex. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Vex build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Vex than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Vex with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Vex as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Thresh vs Vex counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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