Vex vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Vex
based on 2,882 Vex vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Vex
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Vex vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Vex in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several significant Vex versus Varus matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Varus..
Vex normally has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Varus
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Who is Better, Vex or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vex usually fairs equally well when taking on Varus, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes an ok counter to Varus.
While Vex does have a lower win rate than Varus, when facing one another, Vex also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vex into Varus.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. 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 in League of Legends, in Vex vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vex is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Varus. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vex versus Varus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vex combined at least these three items in their build, they performed much better countering Varus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Varus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Varus as Vex, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Vex vs Varus LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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