Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Vex against Rumble counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Rumble..
Vex typically has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Typically, they receives less damage than Rumble. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vex usually loses when facing off against Rumble, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes a poor counter to Rumble.
While Vex does have a lower winrate compared to Rumble, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vex into Rumble.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vex is a garbage counter for Rumble. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vex against Rumble.
If you would like to truly master Vex to counter Rumble during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Rumble. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vex versus Rumble build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Rumble than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 47.3% battling Rumble with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Rumble 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 sets players picked for Vex vs Rumble counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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