Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been attracting great interest due to their excellent electrical, optical, and electrochemical properties they exhibit when exfoliated down to mono- or a few-layer material. Driven by the unique properties, numerous methods have been developed to isolate few-layered TMDs. In this study, lithium intercalation route which is initially established for MoS₂ and WS₂ has been adopted to exfoliate the vanadium dichalcogenides (VS₂, VSe₂, and VTe₂). Following the inherent electrochemical properties of these bulk and exfoliated vanadium dichalcogenides were studied along with their potential as electrocatalysts towards hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This lithium intercalation method leads to the different degree of exfoliation following the VS₂ > VSe₂ > VTe₂ order. Besides, upon exfoliation to single/few layer VX₂ become partly converted to nonstoichiometric vanadium oxide and lithium vanadates, which is strikingly different when compared to group 6 TMDs, such as MoX₂ and WX₂. Inherent electrochemical results indicate that both bulk and exfoliated VS₂, VSe₂, and VTe₂ possess inherent electrochemical activity, which can limit their application for electrocatalysts and electrode materials. HER performance study of bulk and exfoliated vanadium dichalcogenides shows that the presence of vanadium oxides and lithium vanadates formed during the exfoliation process can highly influence the HER performance.