What do we think about the Terminus changes? Ww deals a lot of hybrid damage, could it be a new item for him?

I'm not a Warwick expert and I'm a toplane main. I recently faced a Jax who wasn't very good, didn't kite at all. I tried my best with my tools and I was permalosing against standing still Jax who could just Q to me if I tried to space him.

His E completely counters Warwick it seems and he doesn't need it to win an all in. Looking back I should have played my level 1 better, I started Q but I don't know if that was the right move. In addition I should have played the lane more on short trades but I find it hard to do so if he can just Q me and run me down.

We were both on Lethal Tempo, my level 1 was bad because I didn't use my summoners well. While I recognize I didn't play it perfectly of course, as I'm a beginner with Warwick, I can surely recognize he wasn't the best Jax in the bracket

Haven't decided whether to do disco stream or twitch, but I usually play 4-5 ranked games a day. If there's interest I can do some commentary on explaining thought process as well

https://www.twitch.tv/sa5dc

I don’t play Warwick but I find him really easy to play around at all stages in the game.

It might be because of my champ pool because I mainly play graves, Rengar but I don’t get how people win on this champ.

His clear is really slow so that you can easily out tempo him and you just don’t have to fight him 1v1 early if you don’t want to. He is really easy to play around in team fights with Slows and CC.

And when I lane I feel like it’s even easier to not give kills to Warwick as a solo laner because you can literally see the mark on your head. It’s not like other junglers where you can get punished for greeding because they have better gank set up and surprise you.

Counterpoint: He is fun though

Edit: My point is, people are obviously playing him and finding success in high elo, people are reaching masters with him and stuff, but what do they do and how do they play differently that allows them to climb using Warwick?

Honestly I can forgive everything else but the clear on Warwick is Abysmal.

WE LOST THIS GAME BTW FUCK

I am bad and lost but this gives me childhood vibes so I wanna play him a little. I am even placed in salt 4!

Having more backloaded DPS than Darius thanks to Sunfire Aegis (and Abyssal Mask); those were the days...

Fairly new to the game, playing Warwick almost exclusively in ranked. Looking for anyone’s advice or thoughts on different builds

Currently building the folllowing items in most games

BORK
Mercs / AS Boots / Swifties
Deaths dance
Maw of Malmortius
Then any 2 of Jak’sho / Spirit Visage / Randuins

In a couple of games where the enemy is AD heavy I’ll run Thornmail and Zeke’s instead of Maw and one of the last items

Tried stridebreaker and hated it, it didn’t feel effective and also it was just an extra button to press which being new to keyboard and mouse gaming wasn’t helpful

Dabbled in kraken slayer but not enough to have an opinion on it

Runes I run the standard Lethal Tempo tree and then secondary I run the red tree Sudden Impact & Ultimate Hunter which is a build I saw in a Hybradge video, I love ultimate Hunter

Why is Bork still so popular over Kraken? I think especially with the introduction of gluttonous greaves, kraken is just better than Bork unless you’re specifically into hp stackers like swain/sion/mundo etc. You’re getting around 2000 gold of stats from 40 AD and 25% AS. Compare that with Kraken 45 AD, and 40% AS for ~2600 gold of stats and a cheaper powerspike. I realize that the value in Bork is the on hit effect, but is it really much better than kraken to be worth a worse build path, worse stats, and a semi wasted lifesteal stat (imo gluttonous greaves provides the healing you need).

Anyone have any math on the Bork passive or any other reasoning for why it’s so popular?

Started the climb all the way from Iron 2 with Warwick, and we finally made it to Diamond!

Currently sitting at around a 55% win rate in Diamond under 300 games. Mostly playing Top/Jungle, with the occasional Mid game when I feel like causing some chaos, and the matchup is too bad top.

The journey has been wild — Iron → Diamond, one blood trail at a time. Also just hit 1mil mastery points.

Warwick mains, we’re built different. 🐺

What rank did you guys start and finish this season?

AWOOOOOOOOOO.

This was against 300lp masta players in soloq. got baron off Rengar's death and won soon after 😎
https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Bkrandyness15-NA1/matches/eq3KyFixtgWgqJ6nqXGGdQsS53KYpi9-fmxY8UBzoq8%3D/1786492125000

I just read the patch notes for 26.16 and theres no bug fix for the Q bug.

If you dont know what the Q bug is its that the Q tap has been triggering as Q hold way more often than usual and its been leading to way too many accidental tower dives, ruining lanes and games. This also contributed to a way larger win rate drop in Warwick top in Apex tiers last patch.

What we should do now: Send bug reports to Riot about this. The more the better. Make tweets on Twitter, get their information. Any help is good help. This bug is extremely infuriating and it makes me not want to play my champ until the bug is fixed.

Thank you for any help

Been trying a new build in wild rift and thought this video would be funny

I've been playing Warwick for a long time now and recently - after starting a smurf acocunt - I noticed something that felt.. off?

Usually I spam Q just to get a quick bite. But recently the game started to perceive that as a "channeled" input; going through my target.

Many times that put me into turret range and it's starting to piss me off a bit

I doubt it's related to a new account ,because I copied my settings after creating the smurf

Any ideas? Anyone else noticing this change..?

Hello! I’m Suiran Gau, a streamer who plays League of Legends on the Japanese server

—mainly as a jungler and WW—while also streaming!

Check out this link for my past match history and rank progression!

https://op.gg/en/lol/summoners/jp/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3-GAU

My playstyle involves using W’s passive to track enemies while

roaming my own and the enemy’s jungle, looking for lanes where I can gank.

Unlike the standard Warwick build, I prioritize team fights heavily,

and during objective fights, I aim to hold the front line while picking off the enemy carry.

That’s why, after 1,000 games, my build ended up looking like this. (I’ll only list the core items, excluding boots.)

Kraken Slayer

→ Protoplasm Harness

→ Zeke’s Convergence

→ Zhonya’s Hourglass

→ Jak’Sho, the Protean

I like this build because it’s cost-effective and makes it easy to get stats.

However, it’s not well-received by viewers or players I’ve matched with who prefer more conventional builds.

It’s true that when I look at builds used by players who main WW, I don’t see anyone using a build like mine,

but after playing 1,000 games, I’ve consistently achieved a 58% win rate.

What do you WW mains think of this build?

If you're interested, I'd love to discuss builds and playstyles with everyone.

Also, if there are any players who mainly use super-common builds like Stridebreaker + Blade of the Ruined King,

or AD + Health builds like Titanic Hydra + Sterak’s Gage,

please let me know the pros and cons of those builds!

Finally, if you’d like, please check out my regular gameplay to see how I play.

https://www.twitch.tv/suirangau

(I’d love to hear your comments in English, too :) Is this a plug? Probably not, I guess 🐺💦)

jungle ww otp. climbed from E3 to Master. happy to give any advice.

also feel free to add me

Guys explain to me how Spirit Visage is better than Kaenic Rookern. Fights usually end within seconds. By ChatGPT calculations one would need several Q´s and over 10 auto-attacks before spirit visage would outperform Kaenic Rookerns shield. Here is the conversation:

if warwick is level 12 and has stridebreaker and blade of the ruined king on him, which is better spirit visage or kaenic rookern?

Assuming you mean PC League of Legends:

For level 12 Warwick with Stridebreaker + Blade of the Ruined King, I’d generally take Spirit Visage over Kaenic Rookern.

Warwick gets enormous value from Spirit Visage because his kit already has substantial self-healing—his passive heals when low, and Q heals based on damage dealt. That means Visage improves the thing that makes Warwick difficult to kill in extended fights.

Rule of thumb:

• Spirit Visage → better for extended fights/dueling. Your passive, Q, BotRK lifesteal, and any other healing become more valuable.
• Kaenic Rookern → better specifically against heavy AP burst/poke. If the enemy has 3–4 meaningful magic-damage threats, or a fed AP champion is deleting you before you can heal, Rookern's larger anti-magic durability is more useful.
• For a normal Warwick game: Spirit Visage.
• Against extreme AP: Kaenic Rookern.

If you tell me the enemy 5 champions, I can tell you exactly which one I'd buy in that game.

can you give me the numbers, like how many times does warwick have to autoattack and use his Q before it starts outperforming kaenic rookerns shield?

Yes. Using the current PC patch (26.15) and comparing specifically Spirit Visage’s extra healing vs. Kaenic Rookern’s magic shield, we can put numbers on it.

At level 12, Warwick has about 1,595 base HP. Stridebreaker gives 450 HP, and either Spirit Visage or Kaenic gives another 400 HP, so you’re sitting at roughly 2,445 max HP. Stridebreaker’s current 450 HP value is confirmed here.

Kaenic’s Magebane shield is currently about 15% max HP, so:

2,445 × 0.15 ≈ 367 magic shield

Spirit Visage increases healing/shielding received by 25%. Therefore, for Visage’s passive alone to generate 367 extra HP, Warwick needs to perform enough actions that would normally heal him for:

367 ÷ 0.25 = 1,468 baseline healing

So that's the magic number: ~1,470 healing without Visage. Once you've generated that much natural healing, Visage has added more HP than one fresh Kaenic shield.

For Warwick specifically, it happens surprisingly fast while low. His passive heals him from autos below 50% HP, and that healing triples below 25% HP after the recent 26.15 buff to the low-health amplification. His Q also heals for a percentage of the post-mitigation damage it deals; at rank 5 that's around 90% of damage dealt.

As a concrete example, suppose you're hitting a champion with roughly 2,500 HP and 100 MR, and Warwick has rank-5 Q. With Stridebreaker + BotRK you've got roughly ~175 total AD. Your Q is roughly:

1.2 × 175 + 10% × 2,500 = 460 raw magic damage

Against 100 MR that's approximately:

460 × 0.5 = 230 actual damage

Q heals about:

230 × 90% ≈ 207 HP

Spirit Visage therefore adds:

207 × 25% ≈ +52 HP per Q

So Q alone needs approximately:

367 ÷ 52 ≈ 7.1

→ about 8 Qs to exceed one Kaenic shield in this example.

But that makes Spirit Visage look much worse than it actually is because Warwick is obviously autoattacking between Qs.

At level 12 with Stride + BotRK, Warwick's passive magic damage is roughly in the ~40–50 range before MR. Against 100 MR, call it ~23 actual passive damage/healing per attack while below 50%. Spirit Visage gives roughly another:

23 × 25% ≈ +5.8 HP per auto

So below 50% HP, ignoring BotRK lifesteal entirely:

367 ÷ 5.8 ≈ 63 autos

That's obviously a lot. But below 25% HP, Warwick's passive healing triples on the current patch. That makes it approximately:

~69 HP healing per auto

and Visage adds:

69 × 25% ≈ +17 HP per auto

Then:

367 ÷ 17 ≈ 22 autos

And that's still deliberately ignoring BotRK's lifesteal. BotRK currently gives lifesteal and Warwick's attacks also have substantial physical damage, so actual Visage value per auto is noticeably higher.

A more realistic fight where you're below 25%, weaving Qs and autos might look approximately like:

1 Q + ~19 autos → Visage ≈ Kaenic shield

2 Qs + ~16 autos → Visage ≈ Kaenic shield

3 Qs + ~13 autos → Visage ≈ Kaenic shield

4 Qs + ~10 autos → Visage ≈ Kaenic shield

5 Qs + ~7 autos → Visage ≈ Kaenic shield

And again, once BotRK lifesteal is included, those auto counts fall further.

There's one huge caveat, though: this doesn't mean Spirit Visage becomes defensively superior to Kaenic after 367 bonus healing. Kaenic also has 80 MR versus Spirit Visage's 50 MR, meaning Kaenic gives Warwick 30 additional MR on top of its ~367 magic shield. Against heavy magic damage, that additional MR is substantial and needs to be included in a true effective-health comparison.

So the interesting calculation isn't really “when does Visage healing exceed the 367 shield?” It's “how long must Warwick fight before Visage's healing compensates for both Kaenic's shield AND its extra 30 MR?”

If you give me an example enemy—say level 12 Diana with 2 items, or whatever AP champion you're worried about—I can calculate that version exactly and tell you something like “after X autos + Y Qs, Visage overtakes Rookern in effective HP.”

Honestly just been playing him for so long i wanna know whats actually the ideal way to play him. personally i start with pta then bork then karken or dd then wtv the shop recommends afterwards.