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Sett Guide

the Boss

Fighter

Tank

Tier C Top

Sett, the Boss, is a fighter and tank champion that is easy to pick up. Across our 456 analysed ranked games, Sett is mostly played in Top (100% of its games), with a 49.8% win rate in that role: tier C among Top champions (#34 of 48, ranked by win rate). Sett's damage is mostly physical (75%): armor is the best defensive answer against this champion. 25% of that damage is true damage and therefore ignores resistances. Win rate varies with game length: 52.9% in medium-length games (25 to 35 min, 255 games) versus 45.5% in short games (under 25 min).

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.21

Average KDA

6.0 / 6.6 / 4.8

ratio 1.6

Damage / min

847

CS / min

6.8

Gold / min

417

Kill participation

34%

Vision / min

0.76

Averages measured over 456 Top games played with Sett, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Written guide · based on the official ability texts

Sett is a fighter who soaks up damage: his passive alternates his punches and increases his regeneration based on his missing health, and Haymaker converts damage taken into Grit for a shield and an area punch. Knuckle Down deals damage based on max health, Facebreaker pulls in from both sides, and The Show Stopper slams a champion.

The trade

Q AA AA AA AA

When: An enemy is within range.

Knuckle Down raises your speed toward enemies and your two attacks deal damage based on max health; Facebreaker stuns if there are enemies on both sides.

Recovery

W AA AA

When: You have taken a lot of damage.

Haymaker spends all the stored Grit: a shield and an area punch, true damage at the center.

See all 3 Sett combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Knuckle Down empowers your next two attacks based on the target's max health. Do not waste Haymaker: the more damage you have taken, the more useful the shield.

Common mistakes

Using Facebreaker with enemies on one side only: they are only slowed.
Casting Haymaker with no stored Grit.
Forgetting that you can place the ultimate to slam onto the enemy's allies.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Overlord's Bloodmail, Sterak's Gage, and Stridebreaker (74 games, 62.2% win rate).

74 games · 62.2%

71 games · 53.5%

40 games · 55.0%

Skill order

Max order : Q > W > E49.1% · 53 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q			●	●	●		●		●
W	●							●		●		●	●
E		●												●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 64 games).

Starting items

Doran's Blade

Health Potion41.0% · 39 games

Doran's Shield

Health Potion57.1% · 21 games

First completed items, in order

Stridebreaker

Black Cleaver

18 games · 50.0%

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3710 gold, 66 CS, 4680 XP. At 15 min: 5836 gold, 105 CS, 8182 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite50.8% · 368 games

Flash + Teleport52.4% · 42 games

Flash + Ghost43.9% · 41 games

Most-played runes

Conqueror + Resolve

50.3% · 326 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph100%

Legend: Alacrity98%

Last Stand99%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Second Wind77%

Shield Bash56%

Shards

Attack speed98%

Adaptive force99%

Health scaling71%

Press the Attack + Resolve

45.1% · 82 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph100%

Legend: Alacrity100%

Last Stand98%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Second Wind76%

Shield Bash63%

Shards

Attack speed96%

Adaptive force100%

Health scaling65%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Sett's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team53.6% · 125 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Stridebreaker 56.1% ▲

Overlord's Bloodmail 57.4% ▲

Black Cleaver 58.1% ▲

Sterak's Gage 63.3% ▲

Blade of The Ruined King 60.0%

Spear of Shojin 55.0%

The item that stands out most is Stridebreaker: 56.1% win rate, +6 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team40.9% · 115 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Stridebreaker 38.2% ▼

Overlord's Bloodmail 46.2% ▼

Black Cleaver 41.9% ▼

Sterak's Gage 62.5%

Hullbreaker 30.0%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team52.3% · 216 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Stridebreaker 51.7%

Overlord's Bloodmail 53.9%

Black Cleaver 56.0%

Sterak's Gage 53.3% ▼

Spear of Shojin 55.6%

Warmog's Armor 64.7%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Sett Top: what our games say

Laning phase against the Top average

Measure	Sett	Top average	Gap
Gold at 10 min	3710	3580	+130
CS at 10 min	66	71	−5
XP at 10 min	4680	4754	−74
Gold at 15 min	5836	5655	+181
CS at 15 min	105	111	−6
XP at 15 min	8182	8297	−115

Measured over 64 Sett games with a timeline; the average covers 82 champions played Top in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

short under 25 min45.5 %143 games

medium-length 25 to 35 min52.9 %255 games

long over 35 min46.6 %58 games

Best result: medium-length (25 to 35 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.

Abilities

PassivePit Grit

Sett's basic attacks alternate between left and right punch. Right punch is slightly stronger and faster. Sett also hates losing, gaining additional health regeneration based off of his missing health.

QKnuckle Down

Sett's next two attacks deal additional damage based off of the target's max health. Sett also gains Move Speed while moving towards enemy champions.

WHaymaker

Sett passively stores damage he takes as Grit. On cast, Sett expends all stored Grit to gain a shield and punch an area, dealing true damage in the center and physical damage on the sides.

EFacebreaker

Sett pulls in all enemies on opposite sides of him, dealing damage and stunning them. If enemies were only on one side, they are slowed instead of stunned.

RThe Show Stopper

Sett carries an enemy champion through the air and slams them into the ground, dealing damage and slowing all enemies near where they land.