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Warwick Build Guide by

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Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Ability Order

Warwick Passive Ability

Introduction

Hi, this is my first guide on mobafire, so dont be so rigid.

This isnt guide about as melee DPS fighter, on hit effects and so on.
This is totaly new champion, so im glad to represent you Magewick.

For sake of creativity and fun, i desire to push this guide in popular ones, to become known as diffrent,
not troll build. Dont be cocky and downvote duo item choice or rune combinations.

Give it a shoot, maybe you will be suprised how much fun this can be.

Magewick: FAQ, Math and Explanation

Big part of community dislike this way which i play .
There are some misunderstanding about this.

I will try to cover all of them.

Q1: Why build Ap on champ with one spell scaling 1-1 with AP with cooldown of 6 secs?

A1: Base cooldown of is 6 secs when max.
But with max cooldown reduction we bring to 3.6 seconds cooldown making it spamable.

is 2 spell in 1.
First is dealing damage: 16% hp(+1.0 Ap) with minimum of 275(+1.0 Ap)
Second is healing for 80% of that damage.

Its alike Nidale's is dealing damage, and is healing.
With much lower cooldown!

Q2: needs very much Ap to pass percent damage of spell, isnt that waste of gold?

A2: Thats old story... got some changes, making Magewick viable.
RIOT added Ability power scaling on Percent damage too. Read more at Patch Notes chapter.

Q3: If you go pure Ap, you will be squshy as hell, if CC-ed, you are gone. Isnt better on-hit?

Half healing is from AA(passive) in on-hit build, if CCed oh-hit dies very fast.
Unlike on-hit, Magewick got all sustain in his one cast.

If you wanna ask me something, post comment in DISCUSSION.

Runes

Since we are going mage build, we need some Ability power to make it work.

This is my rune page, the page i personally use.

We get 27 Ap, 10 magic pen, and 4 armor at Level 1.
Together with masteries we will get 34 Ap at Level 1 without items.

We got that 10 magic pen to round 30 magic pen with as its base MR for many champs. We dont need that poor mana regen runes, we got s, so we pick flat Ap.

Masteries

This is standar mage stuff in offense.

Summoner Spells

Here we have just a few really usable spells.

Earlyer i used to use /, now I am using /.

is mandatory. Suits well in Q - ignite - R combo, and its good for finishing off enemy.
Also that 5ad and 5ap cannot be bad. :)

is great initate/escape spell, used for flashing over walls, or flash ulti combo.

IF you have good coordination in team(pre-made is best shoot) you can teleport on ward in other lanes in favor of ganking. Use telepot for fast return to lane to defend tower, or some nasty backdooring.

Skill Sequence

As this is magewick guide we max Hungering Strike ASAP, because its currently only one nuking skill.

Next, we max , as we wanna zone, so mobolity is key to this build, and we put one point at lvl 8 in and max it last as we wont 1v1 in early lvls, just poke with and go back last hitting.

Of course, we max whenever possible. At levels 6, 11 and 16.

Here it goes:

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Builds Explanation

As you can see there are 5 builds.
First 3 i personally use, other 2 are for lulz.
First build is one FULL AP WARWICK, known as Magewick. Focuses on burst damage, and less on defense.

Build 1: FULL AP WARWICK

As always, we start with and 3s.
If doing well buy , if not, just skip it.
ASAP buy , to round 30 magic pen, giving true damage on .
Now we rush . First .

As game progress, needs some more damage, so we buy , upgrading into .
Let me explain you how it works.

In duel cast , then land basic attack procing .
Because strong burst, should activate.
Now just wait for cooldown come to 2 secs.
Then cast , and immediately after that cast once again.

Later on, when teamfights are bursting often, we get our .

When is on cd, this is life saver.
Just pop active, and get in stasis for 2 secs. When over, just for full hp.

As we got some resistanses, its time for a bit of health. Next item is .
As we wannna get some more damage, and cooldown we get .

Escape Magewick

Item Sequence

Second one is called Escape Magewick. Focuses on surviving and CD reduction.
Play style is same as First build, just you got a bit less ap, more deffense, with Zhonoya and Shurelya active when needed. Stacking should be easy with previus mentored items.

3rd one i made very quick, so it needs testing.
Its Magic Penetration Build.
Focus on magic pen, so magic pen runes, items(, ), spells().

With these we try to reduce magic resist to zero.
Making our spells hit for true damage.

Or even reducing magic resist to negative value.
Then our spells hit greater then true damage.
Its increased dmg(about 15% stronger then true).

4th one is when my team beg me so much to go normal build, so i included it.

Starting Items

Standard starting item for many players is .

It gives some hp, mana regen, and 15 ap.
Realy nice stats for that price.
But there is one downside. Mobility.

If your opponent is smart, he will keep distance, while poking you, and you can just end dying.
Thats bad for ranks, isnt it?

So i started using and 3 s, that was even worse.
Early game i spent all pots, and later on went out of mana.
I started thinking what is next.

Then RIOT reduced price of mana pots then i made new beginning.

and 3 s.
One mana pot give you mana for one more , which means more damage, and better healing in one cast then .

Gameplay (level by level)

Game starts, step closer to victory.
We guard blue if needed, and go to lane.
We got and 3 s, for mobility and sustain, our Ap rune page should do job in terms of damage.
Put that one point in Hingering Strike for every case.
Allways be aware of ganks, if you see unsusal actions from enemy, jungler may pop up any time.
We got and for run, we can make mistake once, not twice.

Minions had been spawn.
War begins.

Remember: Key in Magewick is in Mobility.

Level 1: First point put in for every case. Just focus on last hitting.
If enemy becomes aggresive, do combo: AA(auto attack) + + AA
It should be enought damage n sustain, in Level 1 trades. If nececary use .

Level 2: Second point put in . If our prey is low health, we can start zoning from now on.
But still focus on last hit.

Level 3: Now we got some more damgae on , and your enemy got all 3 spells. Now begins war, fight to the death. As your oponent trows some poke on you, you do 1 aa then cast and heal all damage back.

Level 4: You got another point in E. Now we can see him towerhug even in Fog of war.
If he just stays to the tower and last hit, harras even in tower range, after all you heal it back. When he is low enought, AA + + ignite, should do job.

Level 6: Now fun begins. Now our combo is then wait a 1-2 secs, then + , and immediately. Enemy team now see your damage, and respect it. So be ready for some nasty traps and ganks from 3, even 4 champs. So keep buying wards!

Level 6-8: Try to kill your opponent, or make him recall, so you can push tower and bring it down. Go recall after that and gear up.

Level 9-13: Now you got some serius damage. Start ganking other lanes(pref mid), coordinate with team, organize one big push at mid.

Level 14-18: Team fights are already bursting. Be close to team, group, dont go solo. Its all in initating while they are out-numbered.

Patch notes

Warwick got some buffs/nerfs last time.

There are some confusion, so i will try to solve it.
Before: Deals 275(+1 ap) or 20%hp. Heals for 100% damage dealt.
After: Deals 275(+1 ap) or 20%hp. Heals for 80% damage dealt.

Thats nerf for sure. Riot saw that enormous healing on magewick so they nerfed it.

Before: Deals 275(+1 ap) or 20%hp.
After: Deals 275(+1 ap) or 16%hp(+1Ap).
Or better 16% hp(+1Ap), with minimum 275 damage.

This is story. They saw that was healing too much without Ap, so they nerfed percent damage. But they added Ability Power scaling on percent damage too.
That is key moment. Warwick was nerfed. But they actualy made Magewick viable again.

Before: Ap warwick is useless, because he needs "X" ap to pass from 275(+1Ap) base dmg to 20% dmg.
Now: That "X" = 0, because scaling is added on percent damage too.

Community talks about buffs to ulti.
Lets see this.

At 18 level, base ad 110.
Before: 400 base dmg, 5 hits, scaling: 1.67 TOTAL AD
Now: 420 base dmg, 5 hits, scaling: 2.00 BONUS AD.

Before: 400 + 180 = 580
After: 420 + 0 = 420
Then they buffed passive giving dmg on hit.
Now: 420 + 48*5 + 0 = 680 Magic Damage

Conclusion: Riot nerfed , but buffed , so ulti is now stronger.