Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The stats shown here clarify several vital Aatrox versus Vex matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vex’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vex..
Aatrox normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Vex. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when playing against Vex, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Aatrox makes a good counter to Vex.
While Aatrox does have a higher win rate compared to Vex, when on opposite teams, Aatrox also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aatrox into Vex.
Moreover, Aatrox has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vex. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Vex matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a decent counter for Vex. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aatrox against Vex.
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to counter Vex during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Vex. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Aatrox versus Vex build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Vex than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Vex with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Vex as Aatrox, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Aatrox vs Vex fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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