Who to play with Vex — best team synergies

Shadow Surge (R) wants an isolated carry and a kill inside the reset window: The Hextech Ultimatum (R) hands you both, because it seals the target in a zone nobody drags them out of. You detonate, you kill, you move on.

After Unstoppable Force (R) nobody dodges the dash or the Shadow Surge (R) detonation. Hold Looming Darkness (E) back, though: the fear pushes enemies away from where the shadow lands and would break the pile he just built.

All Out (R) smashes a target back through their own line and leaves them rooted behind it: alone, far from anyone who would peel, that is the definition of what Shadow Surge (R) hunts. Footwork (E) also hands you a shield.

Against someone who never needs to dash, Doom 'n Gloom (P) never fires and you are just another immobile mage: Shadow Dash (E) taunts whoever is running you down and Stand United (R) shields you from wherever he stands.

The catch is that he spends the game proxy farming on the far side of the map, so at the moment your fear is already spent he is rarely around. When he is, Mega Adhesive (W) and Fling (E) pin the diver who reached you.

One second of suppression from Infinite Duress (R) is all you need: the target stays put while your Shadow Surge (R) recast goes off, and that kill puts the ultimate back in your hands. Blood Hunt (W) points at the next one.

Cease and Desist (R) drags their carry over to your side of the fight and no amount of kiting or dashing stops it: that is the isolated target your ultimate was written for. And if their support flashes in to save her, he marks himself.

Your only defensive tool is a conditional one: once the fear is spent, Frenzying Taunt (E) is the body that steps between you and whoever is running you down. On offence it holds their carry still for both hits of Mistral Bolt (Q).

Paranoia (R) blinds their whole team and throws him onto a carry left on her own: that is the target you want to finish, since a kill inside the six seconds gives Shadow Surge (R) straight back. Just do not fear her out of his reach.

Lamb's Respite (R) keeps you alive in the middle of a reset chain, but her page warns that nobody dies inside it, including the enemy you were about to finish, and without that kill your ultimate never comes back. Only if you talk.

A target stunned by Enchanted Crystal Arrow (R) has no way out of the gap between your dash and the recast: that is a guaranteed kill, which means the ultimate comes straight back. Frost Shot (P) does the same job in miniature.

Arc of Judgment (W) carpets the ground with an almost total slow: whoever is caught in it does not walk out of the six seconds of your reset window, so you go from target to target and never run out of Shadow Surge (R).

Mistral Bolt (Q) hits the same target twice, so the Deadly Flourish (W) root is armed almost all the time: that hold is what makes your Shadow Surge (R) detonation impossible to walk away from.

Left on her own she stalls at half range with nothing to enter on: Looming Darkness (E) slows and marks a target and Wild Rush (E) goes in on that window. Anyone who dives her, in return, marks himself for your fear.

Agree on who goes first: fear the group while she is channelling Bullet Time (R) and those three seconds get fired at nobody. With the order settled she brings the area damage your kit simply does not have.

Death Sentence (Q) rips out of their formation exactly what you need: one target, alone, held still and inside Shadow Surge (R) range. And when the fight turns, the Dark Passage (W) lantern is the escape your kit never gives you.

Zenith Blade (E) into Shield of Daybreak (Q) is nearly two seconds where their carry cannot move: enough for the dash, the recast and the kill that hands your ultimate back. Solar Flare (R) does the same on several bodies.

Rocket Grab (Q) hands you their carry torn away from her own team, and Static Field (R) silences the button she would escape with: that is an execution, and an execution inside the window puts Shadow Surge (R) back in your hands.

Once Doom 'n Gloom (P) is spent there is nothing left in front of you, and Braum is the body that stands there: Unbreakable (E) eats projectiles and a third of the damage coming in, while Winter's Bite (Q) slows anyone still walking at you.

Two long-cooldown skillshots, and when she misses them nothing is holding anyone still for you: when Aqua Prison (Q) and Tidal Wave (R) do land, you get an airborne target the Shadow Surge (R) recast cannot miss.