Vex vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Vex
based on 973 Vex vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Vex
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Vex vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Vex in LoL
The stats shown here show some important Vex versus Gangplank counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Gangplank..
Vex normally has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Typically, they receives less damage than Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Vex or Gangplank?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vex usually wins when taking on Gangplank, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a good counter to Gangplank.
While Vex does have a higher winrate compared to Gangplank, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Vex into Gangplank.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vex vs Gangplank matchups, Vex is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vex is a decent counter to Gangplank. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often gets a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vex versus Gangplank build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vex combined at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better countering Gangplank than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Gangplank with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Gangplank as Vex, Vex players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Vex vs Gangplank fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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