Vex vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Vex
based on 1,955 Vex vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Vex
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Vex vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Vex in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Vex against Irelia counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia..
Vex typically has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. On average, they receives less damage than Irelia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Irelia
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Who is Better, Vex or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually fairs equally well when playing against Irelia, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Vex makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Vex does have a higher winrate than Irelia, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Vex into Irelia.
Additionally, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Irelia matchups, Vex is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vex is a decent counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vex to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Vex versus Irelia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex included at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when facing Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Irelia with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Irelia as Vex, you should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vex vs Irelia counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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