How to win lane as Graves against Sett · 54.55% win rate over 44 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Graves | Level 1 Sett only has his passive punches and no W store yet, so your single-ability poke and longer effective shell range win the opening exchange. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | At 2 he can pick up W to bank your damage into a true smash, but you both have only two abilities, so the trade is a genuine coinflip on who commits first. |
| Level 3 | Sett | Sett's E pull-stun comes online and his W is loaded, letting him lock you in melee and out-grit your shells before your own kit is fully stocked. |
| Levels 4-5 | Sett | Through 4-5 a fed Sett still wins the stand-still smash war — his W true damage and passive punches out-DPS your armor stacking if you brawl flat-footed. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | His R suppress-slam can flip any even trade into a kill, but your E escape and Smoke Screen vision-cut can answer it — whoever lands their cooldown first takes the window. |
| First item | Sett | His Bami's/Sunfire grit timing matches your first-item duel spike, so the all-in stays a knife-edge until your Eclipse burst fully outscales his store. |
| Two+ items | Graves | You out-tempo him as a mobile carry — two E charges, Smoke Screen's nearsight and roams beat a Sett who only scales into a slow frontline. |
Sett owns the very first all-in the moment his W is up — Haymaker banks the damage he takes into a true-damage smash, so unloading point-blank shells into his face just loads his gun, and his passive alternating punches out-auto you in a stand-still brawl. Don't sit on top of him before both E charges are stocked; last-hit at the edge of your Q cone and only step in when his W is empty or on cooldown. The one thing you must never eat is a raw E pull-stun into his combo — hold an E charge to dash out of the Facebreaker rather than burning both to chase.
The full Graves vs Sett report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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