Sett vs Master Yi Counter Pick

Master Yi arrives with the higher movement profile — 355 base move speed against 340, plus Highlander’s attack speed burst and slow immunity — and he wants the fight to stay mobile. Sett’s kit exists to stop that. Facebreaker stuns anything standing on both sides of him, and hard crowd control is the one thing Highlander does not clear, since it removes slows only. The Show Stopper then lifts Master Yi and slams him, a long stretch of not attacking for a champion whose damage is basic-attack throughput.

The stat gap is real: 640 base health and 2,425 at level 18 for Yi, against 670 and 2,608 for Sett, with comparable armor curves of 109.5 and 112.9. Alpha Strike grants brief untargetability and Meditate restores health with damage reduction, so both are worth baiting before Facebreaker is spent. Wuju Style adds true damage on hit, which ignores armor entirely, meaning health and healing reduction serve Sett better than raw plating. Yi also pays mana and carries no shield, while Pit Grit hands Sett extra healing when he falls behind, which lengthens his runway in a drawn-out duel.

The measured outcome supports the reading: 58.8% over 204 games on patch 16.13.1. Difficulty favors Sett as well, 2 against 4, and the 50 extra units of attack range Yi carries rarely survive a landed stun.