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Bad match up if Jax knows what he's doing. His E blocks your basic attacks and Q. When he's trying to jump on you with his E wait for it to be over, try to time your E right before his E goes off. Usual rune page, take Shield Bash and Unflinching secondary. He scales way better than you do, so you have no chance of winning against him if you're even at any point of the game.
Olaf
Go for the Tank rune page or get Goredrinker as your mythic. Get double armor in your flex runes. Buy bramble vest first back. If you're behind max W, otherwise max Q.
Vayne
Go for the Hail of Blades rune page, and get Last Stand instead of Legend: Alacrity, get Doran's Blade first item. You'll play aggressively the first two levels, try to cheese her as much as possible. Go for the usual item set. Max W first.
Aatrox
Go for the Easy Matchup rune page, take Flash Ignite. Your main goal is to dodge his Qs, he'll win every trade if he lands them. You can use your E to dodge his second Q, but keep in mind he'll use his third Q next. You can use your BoRK to disengage before he gets to use his third Q. He'll then have no source of damage besides his basic attacks.
Fiora
Can outtrade you easily, especially if you don't have BoRK. Play mind games with your E for her W.
Ornn
Go for the Tank page or the usual one. He can use W against your E or ultimate to ignore the crowd control. Try to ult him when he's trying to ult you. Save your W for his brittle. You don't have any kill potential against this guy. He'll be to use to bomb their backline tho.
Renekton
Has alot of kill potential in lane. Play safely and look to play around your team until you get a lead. He can break your W shield if he uses the empowered W, you can go for Legend: Tenacity and Unflinching in this match up (if you do, you'll have enough time to E him if he disengages after he stuns you). Keep your ultimate until he uses his, that way you'll deal more damage.
Riven
Favorable for Riven, very reliant on how well Riven plays this match up.
Camille
Her shields make 1v1s harder to win, but it's fine. Make sure you stun her before trying to use W.
Garen
His W can mitigate your AA+Q combo, be mindful of his R and Q, so don't waste your W.
Singed
Don't overextend your trades against him. Obviously, don't chase him. Take Flash and Ghost.
Urgot
Make sure that you don't waste your W, he can put out some insane damage. His ultimate can execute you through your W shield. Try to dodge his E and NEVER be the first one to engage. Rush Bramble vest. Don't trade with him at level 1 and he'll hit a powerspike after his first item, so don't fight him if you don't have a lead.
Vladimir
Take Fleet or the usual page. You'll need that bonus movement speed and sustain from Fleet against his poke. Don't eat his empowered Qs. Try to get as much CS to get your Stridebreaker asap and grievous wounds. He'll have alot of hp but barely any armor.
Darius
Take your W first, if you're looking to trade back at level 1. You can duel him and win sometimes. Go ignite if you're not confident that you can kill him, otherwise take ghost. Your passive combined with Revitalize and Second Wind can negate his bleed. Keep your W to block his R damage. Don't push into his tower, he'll run you down and kill you.
Gnar
He pokes alot, but you outsustain his poke damage. Take Doran's Shield.
Lee Sin
He has more sustain than you, but has no kill pressure.
Nasus
Don't let him get stacks, try to freeze the lane constantly, and then abuse him early on when he tries to take any CS.
Teemo
You can negate his poison with your passive, has no kill potential if you play it right. He's pretty easy to kill if you're not afraid of him.
Cho'Gath
When he stacks his HP up, you can stomp their backline with this guy, pretty easy to deal with in lane. You can also go Flash and Ghost in this matchup.
Irelia
Wait for her to Q into a minion and E her. Don't fight her when she has 5 stacks.
Sion
Look at Cho'Gath. Take the Easy Match up page.
Sylas
Go for the usual page, get anti-heal early on. You're going to win trades early on, try to deny his CS. When he gets Lost Chapter it'll get harder to lane against him.
Viego
Look at Sylas.
Yone
Yone will have a hard time against you. When he's trying to E and Q3, E him and Q if he fights you during his E. When he E's again, you'll mitigate that damage with your passive. If his initial position from his E is nearby, try to W in that direction. I recommend going the usual rune page against him, but if you wanna ruin his life even more you can go Hail of Blades and burst him in no time.
Mordekaiser
You need to get a lead before level 6.
You beat him before level 6, he can farm safely with Q. Try to dodge his Qs. After level 6 you can't really kill him anymore, also if he buys Bramble Vest, you'll have to hug tower. Consider buying QSS after your first item.
Kennen
Take Fleet. Very bad match up, you can only kill him if he's really bad, otherwise he wins in lane and outscales you. Be sure to teleport whenever he does, try to ult him away from your team if he tries to ult.
Illaoi
Take Conqueror or HoB. You need to get a kill before level 6 so you'll be on line with her. You'll have to dodge alot of skillshots in this matchup, if she lands one E you lose a ton of hp. If she ults just run away. If your team is ahead, she won't be an issue.
Wukong
Go for the usual page, both ignite and tp work well in this match up. Don't trade with him at level 1, he outtrades you with his E. You can trade with him until level 5. Don't try to all in him at level 6, he hits a big powerspike. Freeze near your tower and do short trades. Use your W cautiously. Plated Steelcaps into this one is a must. Goredrinker can heal twice if you hit him and his clone. Try to peel your team, he'll clean up your backline if you don't focus him.
Volibear
Go for the Tank rune page in this match up. Buy Doran's Shield first item and get Second Wind, that way his passive won't be a problem. Buy Bramble Vest early on. Same thing as Wukong, freeze near your tower. Don't let him use his E on you, it'll deal alot of damage. In teamfights wait for his ult, and then ult him into his backline.
Poppy
You can go either use the Tank page or the usual page. At level 1 she'll try to walk up to trade with Q, so watch out. Don't try to trade her when she has her passive ready, wait for her to use it on a minion. Don't let her E you into a wall or you'll lose the trade very badly. Play around your team and wait until you get afew items.
Tryndamere
Go for the usual page. Don't let him stack up his fury at level 1, if he does you won't be able to trade with him. Use your W cautiously, and buy Plated Steelcaps early on. You should use your ultimate towards your side of the lane.
Akali
Take the Fleet page or HoB. You won't be able to stack up your Conqueror because of her W. Play aggressively before level 6, she'll hit a powerspike at level 6. Keep your W for her second R. Peel your teammates and ult her away from your team.
Nocturne
Go for the usual rune page. He can block your W with his spell shield. Get Plated Steelcaps first, the start building your BoRK.
Pantheon
Go for the usual page. If you bait his Q, you can try and take some CS. You outscale him. He wins short trades. Keep your W for his empowered Q. Buy some armor early to deny his lethality. Whenever he goes for a roam with his R, shove the wave and follow up with a teleport.
Lucian
Go for the Fleet page. You won't be able to trade back until you get Stridebreaker, play safe and try to get as much CS. Get Plated Steelcaps first back.
Dr. Mundo
Take the usual page. You have no kill potential against him. Your E and R don't work against his passive. Don't eat his Qs. Try to CS as much as possible.
Ryze
Go for the Fleet page. You have no kill potential until you get your Stridebreaker.
Kayle
Go for the usual page or HoB. This match up got a bit tougher because Riot removed the dash from Stridebreaker's active. Deny her from CSing. At your third wave crash it under her tower, it'll bounce back and you can freeze the lane. Until level 6 she won't be able to do much. When you get Stridebreaker she'll just have to hug tower. She'll have a powerspike around level 6-9.
Malphite
Go for the Tank page. Max your W first. Make sure to E him and use your W everytime, you'll melt his hp. Watch out in teamfights as he can ignore your ultimate with his. He'll usually play safe until he can ult in teamfights.
Jayce
Go for the Fleet page. Get your Plated Steelcaps first item. After he gets his Tear and Serrated Dirk he's gonna deal alot of damage. Stay behind your minions to avoid his E Q combo. If he uses his melee Q you can E and stop that. You can ult his melee E and if he uses melee E you can still use your W. Wait until you get Stridebreaker and you'll be able to win trades constantly.
Heimerdinger
Go for the Fleet page. You have no kill pressure against him, he'll just poke you. I'd recommend going Mercs if they have two or more AP. You can easily kill him if you get a gank. Can outscale you if they don't have any beefy teammates.
Warwick
Go for the usual page, and get ignite. He has alot of sustain early on, try to use your combo when's he's low, cause he'll heal a ton. Watch out, he can dash through you with his Q and dodge your W. Don't try to kill him without your ignite.
Rengar
Go for the usual page, and get Bone Plating instead of Second Wind. You can trade at level 1 but don't go for trades if he has alot of ferocity stacks. Rush Bramble Vest. He'll just heal off the burst with his double W, so look out. Try to stay close to your teammates, that way he won't be able to kill anyone with his R.
Quinn
Go for the Fleet page. She has a strong early game and will simply poke you down. You outscale her eventually. Get Plated Steelcaps, look for opportunities to E her. When you get your Stridebreaker she'll be an easy target. Try to shove wave and follow her with your teleport if she roams.
Yorick
Go for the usual page. Try your best to dodge his E, it'll deal a shit ton of damage. Your basic attacks can kill his ghoulies. Focus his Maiden, then Yorick. Wait for him to use his wall, and the use your E.
Lulu
Boosts your movement speed, attack speed and grants you more hp, which means your W will deal more damage. Juicy.
Yuumi
Pretty self explainatory. Meow.
Zilean
Grants you that resurrection with his ultimate, gives you sooooo much speed.
Galio
Your crowd control synergies well with his. His ultimate is a pretty good follow-up for yours.
Karma
Speeds you up, can slow them down with her empowered Q.
Kayle
Can speed you up with her W and make you go into beast mode when she uses her ult on you.
Orianna
Orianna can pair her ball with you and then use her ult when you ult the tank into their backline. Wombo combo.
Morgana
Can use her spellshield onto you, that will make you even harder to stop.
Volibear
This bear can just turn off their turret for afew seconds, giving you enough time to destroy everyone under tower.
Amumu
Amumu can engage with his Q and then ultimate their backline, giving you enough time to ult their tank into them.
Nidalee
Can heal you and grant you some attack speed.
Taric
Incredible combo if Taric uses his W on you he'll grant you bonus armor. You can just run into their tank and use your ult and then Taric can stun everyone while they're slowed. Even if things go south, his ultimate is pretty neat too.
Kennen
Same as Amumu, this guy can secure a free ultimate into their backline.
Nami
Nami is so good, she speeds you up whenever she uses any of her spells on you, she can help you slow their team up and give bonus damage on your next three basic attacks with her E, can also heal you up. If you ult their tank into the backline, it'll slowed them down long enough for her to ult them all.
Braum
Can help you catch someone up, by slowing them down. Even better if you can get to stack up his passive and stun a carry. His ultimate pairs well with yours.
Sivir
Gives you some juicy speed to get into a fight.
Wukong
You can both wreck everything together with your ultimates.
Kled
Same as Sivir, but this time he'll do the engage and you can follow him up with your R.
Yone
If Yone manages to catch some enemies with his ult, that's your free entry to ult their tank.
Jarvan IV
Can give you some attack speed with his E. His ultimate can lock in their backline, granting you the perfect chance to use your ultimate.
Soraka
She can maintain your hp in fights, can grant you some other bonuses depending on her build.
Seraphine
Can give you movement speed, heals, shields and also root enemy targets if you use your E to slow them.
Lillia
Lillia can use her ultimate on some enemies, giving you time to follow up.
Senna
Slows enemies down from afar, has a mediocre heal and a root.
Janna
Can slow enemies for you, shields you and also gives you bonus AD while shielded.
Vi
You can both punch the enemy team to death. Can shred their armor, can follow up your engage with her ultimate.
Rell
Can help you lock down their team. She can also break shields with her Q.
Synergies
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Lulu
Boosts your movement speed, attack speed and grants you more hp, which means your W will deal more damage. Juicy.
Yuumi
Pretty self explainatory. Meow.
Zilean
Grants you that resurrection with his ultimate, gives you sooooo much speed.
Galio
Your crowd control synergies well with his. His ultimate is a pretty good follow-up for yours.
Karma
Speeds you up, can slow them down with her empowered Q.
Kayle
Can speed you up with her W and make you go into beast mode when she uses her ult on you.
Orianna
Orianna can pair her ball with you and then use her ult when you ult the tank into their backline. Wombo combo.
Morgana
Can use her spellshield onto you, that will make you even harder to stop.
Volibear
This bear can just turn off their turret for afew seconds, giving you enough time to destroy everyone under tower.
Amumu
Amumu can engage with his Q and then ultimate their backline, giving you enough time to ult their tank into them.
Nidalee
Can heal you and grant you some attack speed.
Taric
Incredible combo if Taric uses his W on you he'll grant you bonus armor. You can just run into their tank and use your ult and then Taric can stun everyone while they're slowed. Even if things go south, his ultimate is pretty neat too.
Kennen
Same as Amumu, this guy can secure a free ultimate into their backline.
Nami
Nami is so good, she speeds you up whenever she uses any of her spells on you, she can help you slow their team up and give bonus damage on your next three basic attacks with her E, can also heal you up. If you ult their tank into the backline, it'll slowed them down long enough for her to ult them all.
Braum
Can help you catch someone up, by slowing them down. Even better if you can get to stack up his passive and stun a carry. His ultimate pairs well with yours.
Sivir
Gives you some juicy speed to get into a fight.
Wukong
You can both wreck everything together with your ultimates.
Kled
Same as Sivir, but this time he'll do the engage and you can follow him up with your R.
Yone
If Yone manages to catch some enemies with his ult, that's your free entry to ult their tank.
Jarvan IV
Can give you some attack speed with his E. His ultimate can lock in their backline, granting you the perfect chance to use your ultimate.
Soraka
She can maintain your hp in fights, can grant you some other bonuses depending on her build.
Seraphine
Can give you movement speed, heals, shields and also root enemy targets if you use your E to slow them.
Lillia
Lillia can use her ultimate on some enemies, giving you time to follow up.
Senna
Slows enemies down from afar, has a mediocre heal and a root.
Janna
Can slow enemies for you, shields you and also gives you bonus AD while shielded.
Vi
You can both punch the enemy team to death. Can shred their armor, can follow up your engage with her ultimate.
Rell
Can help you lock down their team. She can also break shields with her Q.
Hi! I'm doozy99 and this guide will try to teach you how to play Sett or atleast learn some new tricks. I've been playing him since release, got around 100k mastery points.
Why should you play Sett?
Well, Sett is very fun and is very satifsying to play as, has alot of play potential, can turn fights very easily, is a very flexible champion, can stomp the backline using their own tank, and he's inspired by JoJo's Bizzare Adventure. Also his Japanese voice actor is the same as Dio.
Sett works excepionally well into beefy tanks, that way you can ult them into their backline to clear everyone.
Pros & Cons
PROS + He's a very flexible champion + Great sustain from his passive + Good in teamfights + Easy to play + Doesn't require any resources + Tanky + Great in early game + Can peel for his carries + Amazing AOE damage
CONS - He's short ranged - Can be kited easily - His abilites have long cooldowns - Can't poke - Can be changed drastically, as he's played in the pro scene - Has no dashes - Has inconsistent damage - E forces you to walk up to use it to its maximum potential
Sett's Abilities
Passive - Pit Grit
- Sett alternates his basic attacks between his left and right punch.
- Your second punch is 8 times faster than your first punch, and deals more damage.
- Sett is regenerating health based on a percentage of his missing health, so don't waste your potions.
- Taking damage will store that damage as grit.
Q - Knuckle Down
- This ability resets Sett's basic attack timer.
- The next two basic attacks will be empowered.
W - Haymaker
- Takes the grit from his passive and turns into a shield and deals damage in front of him, targets that are hit in the middle of this ability will take true damage.
- You can flash while using your W.
- Use your W to block some important spells.
- Crowd control won't stop W.
E - Facebreaker
- Sett pulls enemies towards him.
- If Sett pulls atleast two enemies on opposite sides, they'll get stunned.
- Stunning someone guarantees that you will hit W's true damage.
- Flash + E will catch people by surprise.
- If you aim it diagonally, your E will have slightly bigger range.
- You can Flash to reposition yourself to use your E.
R - The Show Stopper
- Sett grabs an enemy champion and suppresses them, jumps into the air and then slams them into the ground.
- The more HP the enemy you grab, the more damage you deal in that area.
- When chasing someone down, consider using your R as it slows for 99% for 1 seconds.
- You can ignore crowd control if you time your cast right.
- If you're fighting close to your turret, you can flash behind your opponent to throw him into your turret.
- If you're running towards your turret, you can use your R on your enemy to escape.
Runes
- I'll be listing the runes that are efficient on Sett, and the reason why they work and when should you use them.
Precision
This tree is perfect for Sett. It makes him more durable and gives him sustainability.
Precision Sett's favorite Keystone. Gives him sustain and AD in extended trades.
Fleet Footwork
Good against ranged laners. It helps alot during laning phase because it gives you some healing and movement speed; Adding that to Doran's Shield, Second Wind, Revitalize and his passive, the enemy laner will just cry because you have so much sustain.
Precision
This rune is good, it gives you bonus gold and restores some of your hp after a takedown. It's extremely good in teamfights, where Sett excels.
Legend: Tenacity
I mostly use this rune in the precision tree because most champions have some sort of crowd control and it helps out before you get your boots.
Legend: Tenacity
I recommend using this rune against team with little to no crowd control.
Last Stand
Is one of the best runes on Sett. It gives you bonus damage when you're hp is low. Your big shields from W will maintain this rune active when you're low. Your passive also keeps you alive when you're low enough. This rune is even better with Sterak's Gage.
Resolve
Every rune from this tree benefitsSett in one way or another, besides Font of Life. You can pick every rune depending on the matchup.
Grasp of the Undying
I usually prefer this rune against champions with alot of max hp and in match ups where I need short trades, such as Poppy or Malphite.
Demolish
This is a good rune in match ups where you can freely proc it, such as Kayle, Nasus, Malphite.
Conditioning
Take this into lanes where you'll need to scale off of; where Second Wind and Bone Plating aren't useful.
Second Wind
This rune excels in match ups where you'll get poked alot or in lanes where Bone Plating won't help too much, such as Teemo or Volibear.
Bone Plating
Good into melee match ups that will deal a small rapid burst, like Jax or Renekton.
Overgrowth
Good into match ups where you don't really have a kill potential until one point and/or you'll just farm, like Singed and Ornn.
Revitalize
A strong rune that will increase the power of your shields and heals, and work perfectly in match ups where you'll trade alot in early game like Darius and Fiora.
Unflinching
Works well along with Legend: Tenacity, makes your more slow resistant and gives you more tenacity.
Domination
You should use this tree just for Hail of Blades, otherwise is not worth to use as a primary or secondary rune.
Taste of Blood
Once in a while it'll give you a small heal.
Eyeball Collection
Gives you bonus AD for each stack.
Ravenous Hunter
Gives you some sustainability, even though this rune got nerfed twice some patches ago.
Sorcery
I usually use this rune as a secondary one, into easier match ups to get an even bigger advantage.
Transcendence
This is a nice rune to use, it gives you Ability Haste at level 5, level 8 and at level 11, you'll be refunded 20% of your basic abilities after takedowns.
Gathering Storm
This rune helps Sett be more efficient in late game. He kind of falls off, but with this rune it'll give him the bonus AD he needs to stay on line.
For my flex runes I always get Attack Speed, Adaptive Force/Armor/Magic Resist and Armor/Magic Resist.
I usually take double defensive flex runes when I'm playing against losing matchups or against champions that can deal alot of damage like Darius, Jax, Fiora, Camille.
How do I choose my mythic item?
Every game you have to choose what mythic item will benefit you the most, here afew things you should consider when choosing your mythic item.
- If your team already has enough damage and needs some peeling OR you're against a very difficult matchup you can go for Turbo Chemtank or Frostfire Gauntlet.
- If you're looking to go for a damage build and you're going to face a ranged threat in late game AND you're winning/will win your matchup you can go for Stridebreaker.
- If you're against a duelist you can go for Trinity Force.
- If the enemy team has 3 or more tanks/bruisers that your team can't deal with you'll have to go Divine Sunderer.
- If you're playing against an all squishy team comp AND you're running Hail of Blades you can go for Eclipse or Prowler's Claw, if not just go for Goredrinker.
How to play in early game
Until level 6, Sett's one of the strongest champions in game, so you'll have to get yourself a lead until then. Before the game starts, look at each team and figure out a game plan. You can get a lead pretty easily. Pushing your wave into the enemy tower to get yourself prio, that way you can help your jungler secure the scuttle crab; Cheesing the enemy laner in a bush; Denying the enemy laner CS; Trading at level 1 with the enemy laner, forcing them to get an early recall. Be sure to stay warded, Sett is very immobile which makes him very gankable. Look to E your laner for a stun if your jungler shows up. You won't get a huge powerspike at level 6, unlike other champions. Keep this in mind depending on each match up.
How to play in mid to late game
- If you already managed to get a lead, you should look to push that lead even further. You can do that by invading the enemy jungler, taking his camps and putting deep wards, grouping up for objectives, split pushing, flanking or just roam/teleport to another lane.
- If you fell behind, you should try to get as much CS as possible. Look to play around your team. Try to play around your strongest teammate and peel for them. You have great crowd control, so you can set up some plays.
- Sett has incredible teamfights, he's pretty durable and can start some fights pretty easily with his ultimate. In teamfights you should either engage with your ultimate, or peel for your carries. If you're looking to ult someone, try to ult the enemy with the most hp into the enemy team. If you're looking to peel your carries, try to ult enemy carries away from your carries and try to keep them alive as much as possible.
Conclusion
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