When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Vex against Taliyah counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Vex typically has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a bad counter to Taliyah.
While Vex does have a lower winrate compared to Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vex into Taliyah.
Moreover, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. 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 in League of Legends, in Vex vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah 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 somewhat poor counter for Taliyah. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Taliyah.
If you would like to truly master Vex to counter Taliyah during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vex versus Taliyah build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better countering Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Taliyah with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Taliyah 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Vex vs Taliyah counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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