Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Tristana versus Vex matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vex’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vex..
Tristana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Vex. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Vex, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a poor counter for Vex.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Vex, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Tristana into Vex.
Furthermore, Tristana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vex. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Vex matchups, Vex is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Tristana is a trash counter for Vex. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Vex.
If you would like to truly master Tristana 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Vex. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts 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 reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tristana versus Vex build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Vex than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Vex with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Vex as Tristana, Tristana players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tristana vs Vex counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Vex as Tristana are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.