Vex vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Vex
based on 1,679 Vex vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Vex
Advice to Win Against Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Vex vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Vex in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Vex against Soraka counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vex normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Soraka
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Who is Better, Vex or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when taking on Soraka, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Vex makes a poor counter for Soraka.
While Vex does have a lower win rate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Vex also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vex into Soraka.
Moreover, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vex vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vex is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vex against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vex in order to counter Soraka during both the lane 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 presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often accumulates much more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vex versus Soraka build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vex incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better when facing Soraka than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Soraka with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Soraka as Vex, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vex vs Soraka clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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