Mid · 152 games · NA

Vex

Mid · 85% of games

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (60%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+178 gold).

Win rate: 55.3%; ±7.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: S; #7 of 70
Pick rate: 2.5%; ban 1.2%
Games: 152; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Vex mid wins 55.3% of 152 ranked games in NA, rank 7 of 70 mid champions (tier S). Most players finish Luden's Echo first, at about 10:54.

The build at a glance

What most Vex players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Luden's Echo 10:55 · 74% · 112 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 12:42 · 90% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 19:13 · 68% · 66 games

Item 3

Zhonya's Hourglass 25:30 · 62% · 26 games

Item 4 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 28:06 · 7 of 19 games

Runes

Electrocute · Domination + Sorcery 32% of games · 58% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 99% of games · 55% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 87% of games · 53% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Mistral Bolt first 97% of games · 55% wins Skill orders →

When Vex wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′56% wins24% of games · 36

Lasts 25′ or more54% wins73% of games · 111

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Vex games

First Baron: 84% against 35%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 35% 84% +49

First tower 38% 73% +36

Rift Herald 41% 73% +32

First dragon 43% 67% +23

First Voidgrubs 46% 65% +19

First blood 50% 60% +10

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Vex plays

More control wards, more multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More control wards a game1.09 against 0.64 · +70%

More multikills a game0.99 against 0.77 · +29%

Less damage to towers5782 against 6918 · −16%

More vision a minute0.81 against 0.71 · +14%

More assists a game7.1 against 6.2 · +14%

About average: time spent dead, minions, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:12

Item 2done ~19:18

Item 3done ~25:18

Item 4done ~31:18

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 43.5%23 games

Malignance › Sorcerer's Shoes › Stormsurge › Zhonya's Hourglass 66.7%12 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Void Staff 28.6%7 games

Luden's Echo › Boots of Swiftness › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 50.0%6 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Stormsurge › Shadowflame 100.0%5 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Zhonya's Hourglass › Shadowflame 40.0%5 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Void Staff 60%5

Rabadon's Deathcap 58%12

Shadowflame 58%26

Stormsurge 54%13

Zhonya's Hourglass 44%18

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion54.7%150

Doran's Ring + Dark Seal + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Doran's Ring + Dark Seal + Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:4255.5%137

Boots of Swiftness ~10:0050.0%6

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:3660.0%5

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite53.0%132

Flash + Teleport73.7%19

Exhaust + Flash0.0%1

Skills

Max

E55.4%148

Max

W33.3%3

Start

W54.2%118

Start

Q53.8%13

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 1 of them

Expected: what Vex's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (20)

LeBlanc 56% · 9

Yasuo 38% · 8

Katarina 63% · 8

Sylas 63% · 8

Syndra 88% · 8

Aurora 33% · 6

Locke 60% · 5

Yone 20% · 5

Twisted Fate 40% · 5

Akali 80% · 5

Akshan 50% · 4

Zed 50% · 4

Hwei 0% · 4

Orianna 67% · 3

Qiyana 33% · 3

Ryze 100% · 3

Riven 67% · 3

Cassiopeia 67% · 3

Vladimir 33% · 3

Ekko 33% · 3

Vex vs Ahri · 10 games · Early read

Vex does worse than expected here

50%winsexpected 56%

+320gold at 15′average +178

−3.8minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.70 a game

Gold lead against Ahri Vex's average lead

Against Ahri, Vex is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 67% of games and wins 67% of those. When behind, Vex wins 0%.

Ahead at 15′67% wins6 games

Behind at 15′0% wins3 games

Full Vex vs Ahri page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Vex games: Jhin

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Jhin45% · exp. 59% −1322 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Vex dies 2.3 times a game (average 2.2). 57% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 29% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.3deaths per game before 14′about average (2.2)

57%involve the enemy junglermore than average (49%)

71%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (66%)

65%with no teammate nearmore than average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Vex dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 33% in your half of mid. Collapses: 34% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 58% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Vex

Kind of death

Vex Average

Gank 57% (avg 49%)Collapse 14% (avg 18%)1-v-1 29% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Vex Average

Bot laner 7% (avg 7%)Jungler 31% (avg 27%)Support 5% (avg 7%)Mid laner 51% (avg 54%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Vex Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 7:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Vex; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Vex wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 3.0 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of mid. Overall 1.3 kills per death.

Their half of mid 2.2 K/D 138 / 63

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 36 / 138

Their half of bot lane 3.0 K/D 62 / 21

The bot-side river 1.1 K/D 39 / 35

Your jungle 1.2 K/D 39 / 33

Their jungle 2.4 K/D 45 / 19

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Vex wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 32% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 29%). The team wins 70% when Vex is there and 72% when not.

Vex

What most Vex players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 84% against 35%

More control wards, more multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 1 of them

Vex does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Vex games: Jhin

Teammates that change Vex's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Vex

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your jungle