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Vex Build

Mid Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 42,061 gamesUpdated

51.3%win rate1.9%pick5.8%ban

Who counters Vex

Every Mid matchup for Vex, ranked →

How to build Vex

Spellslinger's Shoes→Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spellslinger's Shoes → Luden's Echo → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass

55.1% win rate 27% of games 6,739 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryManaflow BandTranscendence57% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite79%
Skills
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Mistral Bolt
24578
Personal Space
39101213
Looming Darkness
114151718
Shadow Surge
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Vex build →
51.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.4% over 103,156 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.3% over 42,061 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.9%at Emerald+
1.9%pick rate
5.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
53.2%under 22 min
49.6%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Vex champion portraitM VexvsKatarina champion portraitM Katarina
7 / 7 / 6

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WEQQQRQWQWRWWEEE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Vex champion portraitM VexvsSyndra champion portraitM Syndra
7 / 2 / 4

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Luden's Echo

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQWQWR
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Vex champion portraitM VexvsAkali champion portraitM Akali
6 / 10 / 6

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWREWWER

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.9% win rate · 57% of games · 23,794 games
DominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryManaflow BandTranscendence
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.9% win rate · 9% of games · 3,606 games
DominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryTranscendenceManaflow Band
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite79%51.5%34,675 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport19%50.4%8,230 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes91%Chainlaced Crushers5%Crimson Lucidity3%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 52.2% win rate

Vex build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Luden's Echo2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path54.7% win rate2,758 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Vex →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 43,409 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
88% · 52.2% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
5% · 47.0% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
3% · 50.5% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 30.4% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
1% · 56.8% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 35.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes10% of games · 48.4% win rate · 4,554 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes8% of games · 43.6% win rate · 3,281 games
  3. Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes6% of games · 51.1% win rate · 2,583 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 56.7% win rate · 1,891 games
  5. Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 55.7% win rate · 1,743 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Vex against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Vex's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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