Sett How to Play: Tips & Power Spikes

When Sett Top gets stronger, in the order it happens in a typical ranked game: ability unlocks from the most common skill order, item spikes at the median minute players finish them, and the game length Sett wins most.

1. 13.0 min
   First item at 13.0 min

   Stridebreaker is done — Sett's first real damage or durability spike.
2. 21.1 min
   Two items at 21.1 min

   ›Stridebreaker + Black Cleaver: the window to group and take objectives.
3. 25 min
   Strongest in games of about 25 minutes

   Sett wins 52.7% of games that end around this point.
4. 27.1 min
   Three-item core at 27.1 min

   ››Stridebreaker + Black Cleaver + Overlord's Bloodmail completes Sett's core build.

Item timings are medians: half of players finish later. Fall behind in farm and every item spike moves back with it.

Sett is a lane bully: trade early and often, push the advantage, and turn the gold lead into the first item spike. On average Sett Top is 93 gold ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes and ahead in 52% of games. A 1,000-gold lead at 15 turns into a 67% win rate; a 1,000-gold deficit leaves 34%. Sett averages 1.77 solo kills by 15 minutes.

Sett win rate by gold at 15

• 1,000+ gold ahead67.1%
• Ahead61.7%
• Behind38.5%
• 1,000+ gold behind34.0%

Lane matchups that decide the plan

Respect these lanes

Heimerdinger−1,063 gold at 15

Illaoi−735 gold at 15

Aatrox−729 gold at 15

Press these lanes

Shen+1,100 gold at 15

Dr. Mundo+640 gold at 15

Zaahen+628 gold at 15

What Sett does better or worse than other champions after laning, from this patch's ranked games — percentiles where 100 is the highest of every champion.