Sett guide: build, runes, matchups and mistakes to avoid

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Sett in figures

Games in top lane

31,81993.5% of its games

Win rate

51.8%

Pick rate

≈ 9.0%

Ban rate

≈ 4.8%

The figures come from 378,251 ranked solo games on EUW (patches 16.18 to 16.21, Riot’s official API, up to 24 October 2026): the same sample as Gankademy’s champion pages. “≈”: a figure the app gives as indicative.

Strengths and weaknesses

When Sett is strongest

The build that wins most

A build, here, is the order of the first three finished items. Out of the 4,625 Sett games in top lane where they are known, the three most-played paths:

Build	Items	Played	Win rate
Black Cleaver	››	37%	≈ 60.5%
Early Bloodmail	››	12%	≈ 59.1%
Cleaver and Sterak’s	››	5%	≈ 56.8%

All three builds open with Stridebreaker. The most played, Black Cleaver then Overlord’s Bloodmail, also wins most (≈ 60.5%); Overlord’s Bloodmail then Sterak’s Gage wins almost as much (≈ 59.1%), and Black Cleaver then Sterak’s Gage wins less (≈ 56.8%).

With build 1, the game most often starts with Doran’s Blade + Health Potion, and the boots are Plated Steelcaps (57% of games).

Depending on the game

What build 1’s players buy next (5% of its games or more):

Item	Bought	Why
Sterak’s Gage	30%	damage
Spear of Shojin	13%	damage

Skill order

Level by level, the most-played order in top lane: 28% of the 3,543 games where Sett reaches level 18.

Q			3	4	5		7		9
W	1							8		10		12	13
E		2												14	15		17	18
R						6					11					16

The second order, in 25% of them: E at level 1, Q at level 2 and W at level 3.

Runes and summoner spells

The most-played rune pages of Sett in top lane, by keystone and trees:

Page	Games	Win rate
ConquerorPrecision + Resolve	23,260	52.0%
Press the AttackPrecision + Resolve	5,837	52.5%
Grasp of the UndyingResolve + Precision	1,479	49.0%
Hail of BladesDomination + Precision	359	45.7%

Conqueror · Precision + Resolve is Sett’s page in nearly three games out of four, and Press the Attack with the same trees wins just as often (52.5%). Grasp of the Undying and Hail of Blades win clearly less (49.0% and 45.7%).

Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, Unflinching

Summoner spells: Flash + Ignite in 89% of games.

Matchups: the easiest and the hardest

Sett’s win rate against each opponent in the same role, against the usual 51.8%: the gap in points, from 200 games.

Easiest against

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Gap
K’Sante	308	≈ 58.4%	+6.6
Yasuo	474	≈ 56.3%	+4.5
Irelia	630	≈ 55.9%	+4.1
Yone	1,363	≈ 55.0%	+3.2

Hardest against

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Gap
Singed	380	≈ 46.6%	−5.2
Kayle	524	≈ 46.9%	−4.9
Zaahen	411	≈ 47.4%	−4.4
Illaoi	653	≈ 47.8%	−4.0

Sett’s hardest lanes give his grit nothing to work with: Singed runs away through his poison trail, Kayle turns ranged as she levels up, Illaoi wins any fight among her tentacles, and Zaahen also beats him in the sample. Don’t chase Singed, punish Kayle early, and leave Illaoi’s ultimate rather than trading inside it. Against K’Sante, Yasuo, Irelia or Yone, who must come into melee, let them hit, then punch back with your W.

Matchup sheet

The 12 most frequent opponents in top lane. The difficulty is the app’s: the gap with the usual 51.8%, and whether it holds.

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Difficulty
Darius	1,898	≈ 54.9%	Easy
Garen	1,790	51.5%	Even
Yone	1,363	≈ 55.0%	Easy
Mordekaiser	1,326	51.3%	Even
Malphite	1,104	≈ 47.9%	Hard
Volibear	1,033	51.6%	Even
Renekton	953	49.4%	Even
Jax	902	53.8%	Even
Teemo	900	≈ 48.2%	Hard
Fiora	812	51.2%	Even
Aatrox	673	54.1%	Even
Gangplank	665	53.7%	Even

Bans to consider

The opponents Sett beats least often in top lane, among those met at least 300 times:

Opponent	Win rate	Games
Singed	≈ 46.6%	380
Kayle	≈ 46.9%	524
Gragas	47.4%	325

What the specialists do

21 players of the sample play Sett in at least 40% of their games, and at least 30 times. Their 778 games in top lane, against all its players:

	Specialists	All players
Win rate	≈ 56.2%	51.8%
Build	Same 50%	›› 37%
Rune page	Same 76%	73%
Skills maxed	Same 97%	Q›W›E 91%

Same choices as all the players. Their win rate: 4.4 points higher.

The most frequent mistakes

Two habits measured on the 7,955 games with a timeline, then the champion’s own mistakes. These gaps go with losing without proving the cause.

• Dying before 15 minutes. 56% of games have three or more deaths before the 15th minute; they win only 45.0%, against 64.3% when Sett dies once or less (22% of games). Instead: Sett has no dash, and his W is both his damage and his shield. Keep it for the gank or the all-in, not for a wave, and walk back when it is down.
• Falling behind on farm. At 10 minutes, games with 56 minions or fewer (25%) win 44.0%; those with 74 or more (27%), 59.5%. Instead: last-hit with your punches and keep your W and your E for the champion: wasted on the wave, they leave you with no answer when their jungler shows up.
• Grasp of the Undying instead of Conqueror. Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Precision is taken in 1,479 Sett games and wins 49.0%, against 52.0% for Conqueror · Precision + Resolve. Instead: Conqueror or Press the Attack.
• Facebreaker with nothing on the other side. Your E only stuns when there are enemies on both sides of you; otherwise it only slows. Instead: put the champion on one side and a minion or another enemy on the other, then cast it.
• Grabbing the wrong target with the ultimate. Your ultimate hurts every enemy around the landing spot, harder the more bonus health the champion you carry has. Instead: grab their tank and drop them onto their carries, rather than wasting it on a fragile target your fists can kill.

With Gankademy

These are the figures of Gankademy’s Sett page: the draft compares your options against your lane opponent and imports your rune page in one click. The draft · The coaches · What it reads.

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