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Sett Counters, Build and Runes — Top Lane Matchups · Patch 26.20

the Boss

Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (1,410 games).

Sett, the Boss, stores damage he takes as Grit for Haymaker and carries one champion through the air with The Show Stopper. Counted Master+ Setts mostly ran Conqueror, and Stridebreaker opened both leading paths. Shen, Olaf, Camille and Jax were his toughest top lane matchups. He edged out Darius, Renekton and Yone.

FighterTank

Patch 26.18 · Top · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 1,410 games · Preview sample

League of LegendsPatch 26.18TopRanked Solo/DuoMaster+EUW · KR · NA1,410 gamesPreview sample

Role snapshot (Top)

BTier

Win Rate: 50.0%
Pick Rate: 2.2%
Ban Rate: 0.4%

1,410

Games

Moderate

Confidence

Most common path

144 games

55.6%Win Rate

Start

Flash

Ignite

Highest win rate path

94 games

59.6%Win Rate

Start

Flash

Ignite

Runes

Patch 26.18

This exact page: taken in 25.5% of games·49.7% win rate over 360 games.

Primary

Precision

Conqueror

Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.

Triumph

Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health and grant an additional 20 gold.

Legend: Alacrity

Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.

Last Stand

Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.

Secondary

Resolve

Shield Bash

Whenever you gain a shield, your next basic attack against a champion deals bonus adaptive damage.

Second Wind

After taking damage from an enemy champion heal back some missing health over time.

Shards

Attack Speed
Adaptive Force
Health

Other keystones taken

Press the Attack16.2% taken · 52.0% win229 games
Fleet Footwork3.9% taken · 49.1% win55 games
Grasp of the Undying3.5% taken · 49.0% win49 games

Tree pairs

Precision + Resolve91.1% taken · 50.3% win1,285 games
Resolve + Precision3.7% taken · 46.2% win52 games
Precision + Inspiration1.2% taken · 52.9% win17 games

Skill Order

Which ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Sett's most common path.

Knuckle Down

Sett's next two attacks deal additional damage based off of the target's max health.

Cooldown 9/8/7/6/5s · No cost

Haymaker

Sett passively stores damage he takes as Grit.

Cooldown 18/16.5/15/13.5/12s · No cost

Facebreaker

Sett pulls in all enemies on opposite sides of him, dealing damage and stunning them.

Cooldown 16/14.5/13/11.5/10s · No cost

The 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.

Cooldown 120/100/80s · No cost

Max Order

QWE

Max Q first, then W, then E. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).

Level-up Order

QKnuckle Down
WHaymaker
EFacebreaker
RThe Show Stopper

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
QKnuckle Down			Q	Q	Q		Q		Q
WHaymaker	W							W		W		W	W
EFacebreaker		E												E	E		E	E
RThe Show Stopper						R					R					R

Matchup map (Top)

How Sett performs against enemy top laners

Levels 1 – 18 · Master+40%60%Sett's win rate

≥ 60%Very favorable

55 – 60%Favorable

50 – 55%Even

45 – 50%Unfavorable

40 – 45%Hard

< 40%Very hard

Conditional build matrix

Recommended items by enemy team composition

Master+ · Patch 26.18

Mythic / CoreFirst major item

Core 2Second item

Core 3Third item

BootsBoot slot

SituationalPick as needed

Scaling — minute 10–30

SettTop average

Gold

102030

Damage to champions

102030

Counter plan — how to beat Sett

Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Build percentage damage — flat penetration falls off against the stats it stacks
Punish the cooldown — Sett is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 2/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average

Ability details

P
Pit 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.
Passive — never cast
Q
Knuckle 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.
No costCooldown 9/8/7/6/5sRange 0
W
Haymaker
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.
No costCooldown 18/16.5/15/13.5/12sRange 25000
E
Facebreaker
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.
No costCooldown 16/14.5/13/11.5/10sRange 490
R
The 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.
No costCooldown 120/100/80sRange 400

Sett balance history

Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Sett in 2 patches. The latest is patch 25.17, published 2025-08-26.

Patch 25.172025-08-26
EFacebreaker
- Bonus Monster Damage100to125-250 (based on level)
Why, in Riot's words
Sett jungle is a lot closer to viable than people realize but still needs a bit of a push to reach true viability. Have fun!
Patch 25.142025-07-15
Base Stats
- Armor Growth5.2to4.7
Why, in Riot's words
Sett has been quite potent and popular, particularly in average skill brackets. In this patch we're going for a simple and what should be unfeelable change around his armor growth, which is quite high for a champion who stacks a lot of health and buys little to no armor.

Sett skins (12)

Riot's data lists 12 looks for Sett with their own art, the base skin included and 66 chroma variants.

ARAM performance

EstimateB

Win Rate: 48.8%; ▲ 0.8%
Pick Rate: 7.6%; ▲ 2.7%
Ban Rate: 1.7%; ▲ 3.4%

Damage dealt: 101.7%
Damage taken: 101.4%
Healing: 102.7%
Shielding: 105.8%
Ability Haste: +13

Best ARAM build

Patch timeline

Riot’s notes

This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.

26.1950.9% over 446 games · small sample+0.1
26.1850.5% over 734 games · small sample+0.6
26.1746.0% over 224 games · small sample—

Sett's base stats against all 173 champions

Sett's base health of 670 is the 8th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 2 others).

Stat	Sett	Rank	Median
Base health	670	=8th	620
Health per level	114	=14th	104
Base armor	33	=52nd	30
Armor per level	4.7	=42nd	4.6
Base magic resist	28	=160th	32
Magic resist per level	2.05	=4th	1.55
Base attack damage	60	=72nd	59
Base attack speed	0.625	=117th	0.656
Attack speed per level	1.75%	=143rd	2.5%
Move speed	340	=37th	335
Attack range	125	=129th	175

Sett at level 1 and level 18

Sett reaches 2608 health at level 18 — 670 at level 1 plus 17 × 114, the 10th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20.
Sett reaches 112.9 armor at level 18 — 33 at level 1 plus 17 × 4.7, the 48th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20, shared with 1.
Sett reaches 62.85 magic resist at level 18 — 28 at level 1 plus 17 × 2.05, the 78th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20, shared with 6.

Stat	Level 1	Per level	Level 18	Rank at 18
Health	670	+114	2608	10th of 173
Armor	33	+4.7	112.9	=48th of 173
Magic resist	28	+2.05	62.85	=78th of 173

Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.

Quick answers about Sett

How does Sett do against Shen?: Sett won 32.4% of 34 counted Master+ games against Shen. Shen is one of the opponents that beat Sett. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Olaf?: Sett won 40.9% of 44 counted Master+ games against Olaf. Olaf is one of the opponents that beat Sett. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Camille?: Sett won 44.2% of 52 counted Master+ games against Camille. Camille is one of the opponents that beat Sett. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Jax?: Sett won 45.2% of 42 counted Master+ games against Jax. Jax is one of the opponents that beat Sett. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Gnar?: Sett won 38.2% of 34 counted Master+ games against Gnar. Gnar is one of the opponents that beat Sett. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Darius?: Sett won 59.2% of 49 counted Master+ games against Darius. It is a matchup Sett wins more often than not. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Renekton?: Sett won 58.5% of 41 counted Master+ games against Renekton. It is a matchup Sett wins more often than not. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
How does Sett do against Yone?: Sett won 56.8% of 44 counted Master+ games against Yone. It is a matchup Sett wins more often than not. A small sample — read it as a lean, not a rule.
What class is Sett?: Riot classes Sett as Fighter and Tank. This site files the champion under Top.
How hard is Sett to play?: Riot rates Sett's difficulty 2 out of 10.
What resource does Sett use?: Sett's abilities cost nothing to cast. Riot's data names Sett's bar Grit, but no ability spends it.
What is Sett's attack range?: 125 units — the lowest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 44 others).
What are Sett's abilities?: Passive — Pit Grit, Q — Knuckle Down, W — Haymaker, E — Facebreaker and R — The Show Stopper.
How many skins does Sett have?: Riot's data lists 12 skins with their own art, the base look included, plus 66 chroma variants.
How much health does Sett have at level 18?: 2608 — 670 at level 1 plus 17 × 114 per level, Riot's own values, before items and runes.
What is Sett's ultimate cooldown?: The Show Stopper (R): 120/100/80 seconds by rank, before ability haste, in Riot's Data Dragon 16.20.1.
When did Riot last change Sett?: Patch 25.17, published 26 August 2025 — the latest of 2 patches that change Sett in Riot's notes from 25.S1.1 to 26.20.

Sett at a glance

Sett, the Boss, is a Fighter and Tank champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 2/10 for difficulty, 8/10 for attack, 5/10 for defense and 1/10 for magic. Sett casts every ability without a cost and has 12 skins with their own art. Sett's base health of 670 is the 8th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 2 others).

Attack8/10
Defense5/10
Magic1/10
Difficulty2/10

Sett's story

A leader of Ionia's growing criminal underworld, Sett rose to prominence in the wake of the war with Noxus. Though he began as a humble challenger in the fighting pits of Navori, he quickly gained notoriety for his savage strength, and his ability to take seemingly endless amounts of punishment. Now, having climbed through the ranks of local combatants, Sett has muscled to the top, reigning over the pits he once fought in.

— Riot Games, Data Dragon 16.20.1. League of Legends Universe

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Methodology

Data window: Preview sample — a one-time snapshot of 65,406 ranked games (Master+, EUW/KR/NA, patch 26.18), counted by GamGem while our Riot production key is under review. Figures will update daily once it is approved. Counted 26–27 Sept 2026; patches 26.18 (35,477) · 26.19 (18,580) · 26.17 (11,048) · 26.16 (293) · 26.15 (8); by server EUW 22,382 · KR 21,922 · NA 21,065 · EUNE 20 · TR 17. 642 games without a result — remakes ended by vote in their first minutes, and games recorded with no winner — were not counted.
Rank aggregation: Master, Grandmaster and Challenger, pooled — the three ladders the count read its players from. Splitting further leaves samples too small to separate a real effect from noise.
Role assignment: A champion is filed under every lane that holds at least a tenth of its counted games — the position the match itself reports, not the champion’s class. Its headline win rate is across all of them; each lane’s own win rate and games are counted too, and a lane’s tier list ranks by them.
Counters: The two champions in the same position on opposite teams, over that pairing’s own counted games — ranked on the edge pulled toward zero by its sample size, printed raw.
Minimum sample: None — no figure is hidden for being thin. Every rate prints its games, and the confidence band is its 95% margin: Very High within ±1.5 points, High ±2.5, Moderate ±3.1 (1,000 games), Low wider.
Why a build is not a cause: An item is counted when the match ENDS with it, so late items show long games and an item bought when already ahead shows games that were being won. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying the item caused the win.
Where the numbers come from: Names, classes, abilities, items and runes are Riot Data Dragon. Win, pick and ban rates, builds, keystones, spells and matchups are counted by GamGem from Riot's ranked match records. An estimate, not a count: this panel is not in the preview sample, and is labelled so.