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Reworked Warwick - How To Eat Flashes

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Blue Smite : Cinderhulk

Ninja's Tabi / Mercury's Treads

Titanic Hydra

Dead Man's Plate

Spirit Visage

Blade of the Ruined King

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Sorry this took so long to respond to, I've been crazy busy IRL. I've seen Cinderhulk work really well on Warwick! When do you end up getting BotRK? I've been editing my build lately for WW, and will be updating the guide. I've faced some great WW's with similar builds to this though. So tanky!

Cinderhulk > Boots > Titanic > BOTRK > Dead mans plate/Spirit Visage > Banshees Veil/ Randuins Omen is my build right now. I get it because Bortk and titanic are more than enough damage for an off-tank, so my basics already hurt, and I heal for a lot. I also like the chase potential with dead mans and bortk active together, especially when coming from fountain. I get spirit because of healing and health and MR, and I get Cinderhulk because I think hes more on the tank side then the assassin side.

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Yeah I know BotRK works great as the only damage item on him. I love the active as well. Yesterday I went 19/2/9 trying a new build I've been working on though, not really that tanky at first, however! I'm going to try your build out later today if I can :) looks promising!

its worked wonders for me a i play warwick kind of peely in the late game. I still do a ton of damage though, so it should bring you similar results depending on your playstyle.

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8/0/7 they surrendered at 20, did tons of dmg without even completing hydra. I like it :D I'll definitely use this when I need to go tanky. Mind if I add it to the build sometime with credit to you?

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I tried it once yesterday in a ranked game, but it was the worst example lol, gonna try it again soon.

please, i would love it if you added it with credit to me, im making a darius guide right now :P. also my summoner name is Warwick the OP LOL

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Strange that you're saying to go Warriors enchantment and then Blade of the Ruined King. Are you prioritizing early game burst over sustain and attack speed? In which case you lack enough burst in your build to do a whole lot because you follow up Blade of the Ruined King with tank items.

Mixing damage and attack speed like this works, but it is less optimal than going full attack speed or full burst. If you really want a build like this then you might want a TriForce for more burst damage and attack speed as well as all the other stats it gives you. You could take that instead of Frozen Mallet because you don't really need to slow people. Like it is useful don't get me wrong, but it isn't a necessity because how fast you are. Maybe if you went mostly attack speed I'd say Frozen Mallet would be good. It also isn't quite as useful late game so you might want to build that earlier if you still choose to build it after reading this.

I won't be down voting your guide right now. May in future, but going to give you a chance to respond with your viewpoint first.

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Honestly I never get to the last item of my build so I haven't had a chance to experiment much at all. (which is why in the notes section I mention you can switch mallet for anything else) I tried Gauntlet and I liked that, the slow isn't just for me though I am a really team oriented player. Slowing an ADC is a death sentence to them. (If you aren't already ulting them to death) I'd also like to mention that psychologically being slowed is more stressful than other forms of CC. You aren't just sitting there deciding on your next move, you're stressing about how slow you are on top of clicking where to move.

Warrior enchantment gives the best damage IMO for the early game (which is what it's meant for) and BotRK goes amazingly with WW's ultimate, plus the active is to die for. (ha) Not to mention with BotRK and Spirit Visage you can nearly heal yourself to full HP (from near death) with your ultimate.

Not sure if you have seen them already, but try watching the plays.tv clips I posted and check how much damage I'm doing. I see no need for much else, but that last item can definitely be switched out, I am still not sure what I'd choose for its place though because again the game is usually over before that point for me, so I'll have to experiment more.

I appreciate the input though on the last item and I'll make sure to find something that fits better than Mallet. I'd probably go with something other than Tri-Force though, as I don't really like it on many champions, plus it's kind of awkward as a last item. Just my opinion though :P

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I didn't recommend as a last item. Just as an item to grab in general. I'd probably take that after jungle item or after second offensive item if you are going for a damage build. You could grab Warriors, Ghostblade, and Tri-Force if you really want to burst people down fast. Ghostblade and Triforce will ensure your escape as well thanks to all the movement speed buffs.

Warriors works now thanks to the rework, but the reason I feel you are using it wrong is because of the rest of your build. I feel if you're going to grab AD early on for then your goal should be quickly bursting people in a few hits, mostly with abilities. To do this you grab a lot of burst or AD items, not attack speed items. I'd recommend Bloodrazor and Ruined King together instead of Warriors because that allows you to damage people very fast and the attack speed goes great with the slow active on Ruined King.

However I will say that although your build probably does give you good damage results, that doesn't necessarily mean it is giving you the best damage results. Just something to think about. I myself test tons of different combinations, normally against bots, to see how each thing works and what works best. Then if I like it I try it out in Ranked.

Going damage is great if you get lethality from Ghostblade and then the burst from something like Trinity Force, there's a lot of other items to choose from including Iceborn Gauntlet if you want to go mix of AD and Armor early on. However, I feel like if you want to burst people you should just play because his kit is similar to 's except he does burst far better. is strongest when he has on-hit abilities and defensive stats.

By similar I mean they both have a fear, they both have a "chase" style of kill securing that relies on speed to gap close, they both have a long distance ult, 's takes way less skill to use and doesn't require speed scaling for the radius, they both are great basic attackers with a built in sustain ability on their basic attacks, and they both have a defensive ability of some sort. Just throwing recommendation out there because I personally love both champions because of their similarities and different strength focuses. When I feel like bursting people insanely fast I choose and rush warriors and ghostblade, then statik shiv.

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The build fits my playstyle, I've always had a weird playstyle and weird builds but I figure if it works for me it'll work for someone else. I don't play him as a full damage champion, and I can explain why.

If you are using a full damage build you will die, it's just true, without your ult you are a sitting duck in a teamfight. You NEED to be tanky to survive.

Warrior = better early game damage than Bloodrazor would give. Getting a longsword or two on your first back is INSANE. Hitting people fast doesn't matter if you don't do **** for damage, and with your W passive you already have more attack speed than most anyways at that point of the game.

BotRK = Sustain, Active Slow + Damage, and works AMAZING with his ultimate as it applies on-hit effects.

The rest is tankiness because again, I don't want to be a useless member of the team. I abhor when junglers build in attempt to solo carry the game because if it goes wrong you are going to see a Defeat screen far more often than you would building bruiser.

Long story short, I get where you're coming from but by all means I think you are wrong, I hope you don't take that the wrong way. I've also played a lot of Nocturne too, and even him I don't EVER get more than about 2 damage items. You just die after you ult if the enemy team has half a brain. Melee + squishy is not a good combo even if you have a fear/ult. Unless you plan on NEVER grouping, which good luck.

You can downvote me if you want to, again I'm used to my builds not being for everyone. I don't build to burst, never said I did, I just said I have burst, which is true. I'd also like to mention my current winrate with reworked Warwick is 82%. I will be mentioning you in the guide though, I hope you don't mind!

TLDR; I no build for dmg, build for teamfight and win game.

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Building for team fight on requires attack speed and defensive stats, not AD. Only time you build AD is if you're building assassin or bruiser and in both cases your build isn't optimal.

As for , he isn't the type that dies easily. Unless the team has tons of CC ready just for him he will easily get out alive especially if he has . And once he's out he can go back in safely. What you have to keep in mind is if you are out of sight you are mostly out of mind. ESPECIALLY in any elo below Diamond. What this means is the enemy will be using most of their abilities before you go in if you know how to play . Not to mention your spell shield to block 1 potential CC ability or ultimate. After that there's not a whole lot let they can do which is why you focus their ADC who relies on basic attacks instead of abilities. Once he's dead you just go around 3 shotting everyone with basic attacks while your team keeps you alive. And if your team doesn't try to keep you alive all you have to worry about is CC, which means you have around 8 or more seconds to kill and get out. Which is plenty of time when you can kill people in about 2 seconds of basic attacks.

The most important thing to keep in mind is "out of sight out of mind" when you are playing a roaming champion like while building burst. If enemy is team fighting your team then you can easily jump on them, blinding their whole team and keeping them in the dark while you kill one of their carries. A lot of players don't realize just how blinding their ultimate.

Thing is, if you go full damage/burst on you can then get penta kills easily because you can kill people so fast that they lack time to even hurt you. Your spell shield protects you from instinct CC reactions, your fear ability lets you keep the harder to kill people off you while you sweep up the squishies. I got Mastery 7 by building on-hit and for team fighting, but I recently switched to burst and win almost every ranked game because of it.

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Lasoor, how much time do you actually have on new Warwick? He doesn't work well as an assassin and attack speed without damage is pretty much pointless. Just getting attacks out without anything behind them means nothing, new Warwick has great scaling and works well few damage items. Plus he has to stay in fights since he doesn't have an escape so he NEEDS tankiness.

Looking at your op.gg and looking you up on the client, you have only 1 game on reworked Warwick, and have barely been playing for the last month. So do you have another account you play on or are you just talking out of your ***? Plus you're Bronze 1 on your account that you linked. Seems to me like you just wanted to get a guide out as fast as possible without actually putting time into learning the new Warwick.

I'm not surprised damage would work on Nocturne for you though seeing how low your MMR is.

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I didn't say to do "assassin and attack speed without damage". No clue where you got that from.

I have multiple accounts I play on. And my guide was up for around 2 months as top guide before the rework, I simply remade it for the reworked version.

I don't see where you're getting all these assumptions from.

As for , even the top guide says to go full lethality and damage. I am good at both on-hit and assassin burst. And the top guide was made by a mobafire administrator who was Diamond.

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Pentas in what elo? Wanna join me for a high elo (Diamond) game sometime and try it out? I have a master tier friend who would totally group up for the cause. You're very wrong at a lot of things here. Not to mention you have only played one game of Warwick after his rework and you lost it.

"you can then get penta kills easily because you can kill people so fast that they lack time to even hurt you."

You'd have to be brain dead to have a reaction time this slow to be perfectly honest.

You need to try learning something new instead of pretending you're the smartest player in all of League of Legends.

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I have played probably around 50 or more games with new and won most of them. And getting penta kills is an accomplishment, not something you can do every time and especially not something you can do as easily in Diamond. That's just obvious and fact you make me state that just goes to show you're looking for stupid reasons to lengthen a debate with me.

It's pretty funny that you are getting so defensive though when I have even said things you said you agreed with. Learn to take criticism.

Just going to point out that you instantly turned this from a conversation about builds into you getting defensive and acting elitist. Didn't even down vote your guide or insult you and you're going to act that immature. Nice.

And it's funny you're the one acting elitist when you're unranked and you lost 5 games in a row using your build giving you only a 58% win rate out of 12 games. Those being normal games, so even easier games to win. Not to mention the 3 recent games you won with him you got carried. Which I know because the damage charts, the kdas, and the other information given to me by op.gg. You don't even know how to play . Yet you make a guide on him and then try to act all high and mighty when the guide's flaws are called out.

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Where are your 50 or more games with new Warwick, buddy? You're really offended here right now.

I'm unranked, yet I've won all of my placements so far.

My "5 games in a row" I lost are due to intentional feeders in three of them. The Tristana and the Soraka and Yasuo. Good try though. Not to mention one of them is an ARAM. Losing games outside of that is just bound to happen. Again, if you're SO damned good, PLAY WITH ME. I want to SEE it instead of you spewing **** about how good you are.

Why the hell would I top damage charts if I don't build to do damage? What? You're so delusional it's insane.

Again, PROVE TO ME you played "50 or more games with new Warwick" and PROVE TO ME that you are a good player by queuing with me in a high mmr game. I already know you won't accept to either of these.

Where am I acting elitist? Anyone can see that you're the one trying to act elitist here.

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First of all, you're the one acting high and mighty or more skilled than me. Not the other way around. I never even brought up skill, as this was always about optimizing not skill. As for damage, I never said you don't build damage, I said you didn't deal damage. Funny you say you're top damage charts when the evidence saying otherwise is right on op.gg

You're acting elitist by trying to claim what I say is false because you were a higher elo than me. That is elitism. Instead of actually backing your side with evidence that your build strategy is better you decided to make it a debate about skill. I really don't care which of us is more skilled. That's irrelevant. I personally know my game knowledge and map awareness to be my strengths that cause my high win rates rather than my champion mechanics. Hence why I favor champions that require less mechanics.

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I don't think you have a second account is all, I think you're bsing and that's what I am calling out. I'm not acting high and mighty by asking for proof. When did I say you are wrong because you're bronze? Where? Quote me on it. When did I say I top damage charts? When?

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I mean I have more than a second account. I have 6 accounts. But think what you want.

And my proof in how you're acting is found in your text.

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If you have 6 accounts why would you link your Bronze 1 account that has 1 game played on reworked Warwick and what seems like no knowledge on how the reworked Warwick plays? Link the op.gg of your other accounts?

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https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=lasoor
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Muguen
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=zzgodwick
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=awk1983
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Nellsaaav
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=slimberic

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Quote me on it. I read through what I wrote, nothing of the sort is found there. You are just lying repeatedly now. Just asking for proof. This guide was meant for nothing but to help people, I have nothing to gain from it at all. I have no reason to fight with you but you are LYING about many things right now and are not giving any evidence to any other suggestion.

Again, PROVE I SAID THAT, PROVE YOU HAVE "6 ACCOUNTS" if you don't you're lying.

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That was your response to me taking my time writing a descriptive paragraph on how to play burst without being killed easily. You decided to turn it into who is better rather than continue discussing champions.

Here's my 6 accounts that you for some reason find hard to believe:

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=lasoor
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Muguen
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=zzgodwick
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=awk1983
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Nellsaaav
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=slimberic

Seems to me like the liar here is you.

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There is not a single point in that entire thing you quoted where I said you're wrong because you're in Bronze. Maybe you should take a reading comprehension class. I was asking what elo you're getting pentas in because getting pentas in low MMR is significantly easier. On my smurf account I'd go as Tryndamere jungle and I'd gotten two pentas in bronze/low silver. This is while being baked off my ***. I suggested you queuing with a friend and I so you can try it (your build) in an elo that is respected and has people that know how to CS and ward and kite. I was still discussing THE BUILD. Not insulting you at all. You getting insulted is because your self-esteem is trash which isn't my problem. What stopped you from going on a lovely adventure with your build in a non silver/bronze game?

Thank you for linking your accounts, that wasn't so hard now as it?

Now I want you to check your damage done compared to your team as Warwick. I clicked through MANY of them and there is not one I found where you weren't lowest on the list. Why did you bring this up earlier if you aren't even doing it?

I never said I am better than you, I said you should try LEARNING SOMETHING NEW. I took from what you said, I never said anything insulting to you and you took it insulting and decided to go on a rampage instead of taking my information as valid as well.

I'm done arguing with you, this isn't worth my time at all. I suggest a therapist though as it's very obvious you need one with how much you roam this website putting others down just to pretend you mean something.

I mean that in all honesty, there are free therapists you can get if you can't afford one. Good day, sir.

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I don't build damage, I build tanky and on-hit. Hence not doing damage and instead having the role of tanking damage. Looking at damage in your case was relevant because you were building damage items and saying you kill people fast. Triumph.gg shows me mostly at a platinum level for while it shows you at a gold level.

And I have played at higher elos with my Gold - Plat friends and I fit right in with them. Only Bronze on main account because I don't play enough ranked on it.

And you were clearly making the claim that I am wrong because my elo.

Don't even pretend I'm the one putting others down. That clearly was you who made this hostile. I didn't even down vote your guide despite your friend going on my guide and claiming I did. You're the ones who made this hostile. I saw it as friendly until you replied calling me bad or a liar.

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It shows me as Diamond 4 and you plat 3/2...

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Please don't waste your time on this hypocrite... whichever guide he fits not to his style he will go, and try his best to decrease your faith in your own guide... he almost made me do that and he managed to do it... until I realized that it was MY guide and MY point of view on the reworked warwick... let him dislike your guide and bless him "Good riddance". - He won't stop until he'll make you feel insecure of your own build. it's apparently a new thing for him to realise that there are guides that disagree with his theory and so he must go in and repulse whoever made it.. big waste of time.

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If you put a guide up on this website then expect people to disagree in your comments section or even down vote it. That is the entire reason the comments and vote system exist. To share your opinion on the guide. If I disagree with someone's guide then that is my right. I gave him a vast amount of information on why I feel his way is wrong and didn't even down vote his guide so I am in no way being unreasonable.

And if the only reason you didn't listen to my advice is because it was your guide, not mine, then I feel sorry for you. Because you even came to agree with what I said so now you're just hurting yourself because of your pride.

Not to mention you down voted my guide solely because I down voted yours, when I actually had in depth reasons to do so and convinced you that I was right in doing so. Yet your vote remains on my guide. So the hypocrite here is you, I don't see how I have been "hypocritical" in any way. If you look at my guide comments I am very informative in my responses and respectful regardless of the opinions stated. I also admit when I am wrong and fix mistakes I have made. Such as when I at one point said to take sunfire cape with cinderhulk. My mistake was pointed out and I thanked the person who down voted for pointing that out and fixed it which resulted in him changing his vote.

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If a person is clearly telling you "this is MY playstyle", at that moment you need to be quiet and quit your nonsense excuse for an arguement, they want it that way, stop trying to fix the world because just like you have "your right" to disagree, so does others, and I didn't even mention my downvote on your guide, whilst I downvoted your guide has a pretty obvious reason : If you're going to rely on "I disagree with this guie" as Downgrade worthy, it goes both-ways, since our guides are different and because you find it worthy to disagree with mine, I am practically relying on YOUR rule, that you can dislike guides if you disagree with them ; stop with your manipulation and your pitiful arguements.

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Not to mention you literally came here and to my guide looking for a fight yet you claim I'm the one trying to argue.

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You literally said "eye for an eye" and provided no reasons relating to the guide itself. My down vote on your guide had reasons relating to it simply being a bad way of playing. There is a difference between "preference" and "optimal". I make that distinction clear in all of my guides. Masteries are partly optimization and game play preference as are build TYPES. But the items going into those build types have to do with optimization. What is truly best. My comments are entirely based on what works best as are my guides. If you don't like someone pointing out that your guide doesn't work then don't make guides.

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Nonetheless, the only reason I came up to agreement with your comments is because I was insecure, frustrated, annoyed, and mostly infuriated of your nonsenseful comments, I was forced to say something that will make you leave my comment section and depart from my career ; check my guide again and see I didn't change a single thing.

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Shows your average on as Gold 3. Simple math.

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For my ranked score it says Diamond IV, again, get some therapy I'm dead serious you need it.
I'm not responding to you anymore.

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That's going off of 1 game though... since it only shows 1 ranked game for for you. That's why I factored in the normal games too. I mean you could be bronze skill and do really good in a game and have it say you did Gold that game. Does that mean you're gold? No it means you had a good game. That's why you need to take an average, the more games you do with a champion the better idea you'll get on how good you are with it.

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This guide is actually pretty good, I didn't really understand the ability promotion order but it's still very good!

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Thanks so much! I appreciate it :)

Yeah I'll make it more accurate in a bit haha I wrote the details in the notes but I still gotta update the actual thing.

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