Vex vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Vex
based on 1,081 Vex vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Vex
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Vex vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Vex in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Vex against Azir counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between this pair of champions. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Vex usually has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Azir
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Who is Better, Vex or Azir?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when playing against Azir, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Vex makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Vex does have a lower win rate compared to Azir, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vex into Azir.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vex vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vex is a garbage counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vex against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vex to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vex versus Azir build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs Azir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Azir with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Azir 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 runes we have analyed for Vex vs Azir counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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