Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Vex against Gragas counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Vex typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Vex does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vex into Gragas.
Furthermore, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Gragas matchups, Vex is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vex is a decent counter for Gragas. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vex against Gragas.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Gragas 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 tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex typically picks up more CS relative to Gragas. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Vex versus Gragas build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex bought at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better countering Gragas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Gragas as Vex, you should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for Vex vs Gragas battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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