Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some valuable Vex vs. Thresh counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between these two champions. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vex often has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives less damage than Thresh. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vex usually wins when trying to fight Thresh, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Vex makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Vex does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vex into Thresh.
Furthermore, Vex also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vex vs Thresh matchups, Vex is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a decent counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Thresh.
If you would like to truly master Vex in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex on average picks up much more CS compared to Thresh. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vex versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when facing Thresh than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 51.2% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Thresh as Vex, you should use the Dark Harvest, 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 Thresh fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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