Warwick, at the moment, a great jungler, easy to play, but super effective if you know what you're doing. But while his jungleing strength is very strong, there is another way in which Warwick can be played, you may have heard of it before, Warwick top lane, arguably even tankier then jungle Warwick. While it may not be as efficient as Warwick jungle, that certainly dosen't mean its not weak by any means.

Now you may be thinking, how much experience do I have with our wolfman, not to worry, I will tell you my experiences with Warwick in seasons 5-7.

I started to play Warwick back in late season 5/early season 6 when I was new to the jungle, at the time, I found him pretty fun, even calling him my main for a short amount of time, before I just got flat our bored of him when I started to play flashier jungles, like Skarner, Kha and Rengo, eventually I started to play him again a little bit, but it was usually just in a rotating game mode, he was never the same to me for the majority of season 6, Then his rework was teased.

The cinematic trailer was one of my favourite when it was released, and I was even more pleased when his spells were revealed. I thought I was going to play him in the jungle so much I could call him my jungle main again, but I was very wrong. One game where I got top, I didn't want to go Kled into Nasus, so I panicked and picked the wolfman, and I was not disappointed, I did great in lane, we lost the game, but I was amazed with how well he worked out, so I tried it out more, and eventually got where i am today with him.

At this moment, I currently sit at mastery 6 on him with one mastery 7 token and about 30k points, I know this dosen't sound like much, but that is a huge stretch from where i started with him, at only 9k points.

Warwick has some of the best wave clear in the game once he gets ahold of his titanic, you should make a constant effort to shove the wave to force your laner to farm under tower, this way you can get a heafty gold lead on them and easily dominate the lane.

If they step up to try to take cs, harass them, wether it be with autos or a Q, always punish them for trying to farm, you should be able to win most of these fights and even get a kill. If a situation arrises where you get a kill, you get a huge advantage over your laner since your dueling can become even better.

If its one of the harder matchups, and your force to farm under tower, it may seem hard to last hit at first, but with the bonus magic damage on your passive, and once you get your Tiamat or titanic, your life becomes much easier.

At level 6, try to fight them, if they out damage you, try to sustain off of minions with your passive and Q before they can heal, then go in for a kill, in tower dive situations, make sure you have the tripled bonuses from your W, then Q onto them first, and point blank ult them. After you have the kill, Use your E to survive the tower shots so you don't die.

In ranked, ask you're jungler if they are going to play Warwick, if they want to, let them, unless you have much more experience with them on him (Tell them you have the increased experience, and hopefully they hand him over.)

Also, make sure your team has some decent damage before you pick Warwick. If you have things like a Nautilus jungle and an Alistar support, Don't play Warwick, you may have a super tanky comp, but if the game gets dragged out, you won't have the damage to win fights.

If a situation rises where your laner turns out to be one of the harder matchup, tell your team in advance that you may struggle, this should result in your jungler putting early pressure on your lane opponent, or, since they know you probably will lose that matchup anyways, they would gank other lanes to try to get them ahead. If the jungler choses the second option, play passive, leaving your laner without kills while your other lanes get very far ahead should result in an easy game.

Mid game, if a skirmish breaks out and you're ahead, make sure to try to get to it, your W move speed, can get you from topside to botside in a flash. HOWEVER, if you're the only one ahead, only join topside skirmishes, since your move speed usually won't proc if your botlane is super behind, so by the time you get there, the fight will be over and you would have wasted time you could have used to farm or even get another kill in top.

In the late game, Your job is to initiate for your team, when you want to go in, activate your W to get the movepseed, the try to get a line to ult a squishy, this allows your higher damage carries to burst them without them being able to fight back. After your ult is burned, your job becomes to peel for your carries tanking skill shots with your damage reduction, and breaking through their frontline with your max damage health Q.

If you have to die to keep your teammates alive, always make the sacrifice, if they focus all their cc onto you, its give your carries free range to unleash their spells or channeled abilities without much threat to them.

Pros:
Overall decent lane phase into other melee laners.
Extremely tanky.
Excellent sustain.
Excellent dueling.
Decent ratios.
Doesn't have to build attack speed to get close to maximum attack speed.
Great engage
Cons:
Slow without W going off.
W movespeed isn't retained in combat.
Very susceptible to CC.
Easily bullied in lane.
Auto attack reliant.
Reliant on team followup.