This is a pretty strong spell during laning phase, but not so much during team-fights. Most supports will almost always try to CC you as soon as you try to ult anyone, making this more of a gap closer than a CC or damage spell. It's possible to get some really good Flash ults on a carry though, and this can sometimes win you a team-fight or even a game. In lane, you should use it every time your jungler ganks

Levels 1-5

Your main focus is to farm. Warwick's early levels are very weak in fights, so just try to farm as much as you can without dying. However, if getting a last-hit requires you to walk right next to your enemy while he has 5 enemy minions surrounding near you and none of your minions are near him, just let the minion die. If you don't and try to get the last-hit, chances are your enemy will engage on you and you won't be able to counter-attack at all because of the large number of enemy minions near you, and you'll just have to run while letting him get free damage on you.

When your enemy attacks you, Q him and use one of your Crystalline Flask pots. You should be able to stay on relatively high HP and not go OOM straight away.

Don't be afraid to recall if you get very low, even if you're only level 3 when it happens. Recalling is better than dying, or staying on the lane while zoned out for 3 minutes. At lower Elos people are always too hesitant to recall, because they seem to think it means their enemy is winning. If you're very low or your the wave is pushed to the enemy tower while your ward's run out, you always recall. Recalling will make you lose out on XP, but that isn't always bad. If you go back and get items, then go back onto the lane, you now have an item advantage over your enemy ( and probably a mana + HP advantage too ) until they go back. If they don't go back soon you'll probably be able to kill them because of your advantages, so they'll need to go back and lose the same XP you lost when you recalled.

If your enemy gets over-confident and tries to fight you on your side of the lane where you have much more minions than him, fight him. Warwick's early-game is bad, but not so horrible that he can't win fights while he has such an advantage. What's more, Eternal Thirst and Hungering Strike will cause the fight to last LONGER than it would against anyone other than Warwick, so the longer you stay alive, the longer your enemy gets hit by your minions. When fighting your enemy, always auto-attack once then cast Hungering Strike at the very moment the auto-attack hits, to reset your auto-attack animation. And remember to consume a Crystalline Flask pot when you begin a fight, you lose nothing if it doesn't end up being useful, as you'll get it back when you recall.

Level 6

At level 6 you actually get kill potential ( only ******s / dc'ers die to a pre-6 WW ). Warwick's fighting becomes quite good at this point too. When you get into a fight, consume Crystalline Flask, activate Hunters Call, auto-attack once, then cast Hungering Strike at the end of the auto-attack, as I explained before, then keep on auto-attacking. It's natural for you to be losing the fight at the start if you haven't reached Bilgewater Cutlass or at least Vampiric Scepter yet.

But Warwick has the ability to essentially "pause" a 1v1 for nearly 2 seconds, by casting Infinite Duress. He can't move, but neither can his enemy. During the "pause", Warwick regains HP from his ult and his enemy LOSES HP from his ult, and both fighters take minion damage. What's important about this being a "pause" spell rather than simply a damage + sustain spell is that it gives time for Warwick's Hungering Strike to come off of cooldown, and Hungering Strike is one of the best spells for fighting in the game.

So when you / your enemy's / you and your enemy's HP bar reaches ~30% ( BEFORE you get so low that your enemy tries to Ignite you to finish you off ), this is when you reveal to your enemy that the fight is not as close as it appeared to be. Activate Infinite Duress, and watch as your HP bar slowly increases while your enemy's slowly decreases. Once Infinite Duress is over, cast Ignite on them and use Hungering Strike, which probably came off of cooldown while you were casting Infinite Duress, then auto-attack if necessary because they're not dead yet. IF they're so low that the Ignite is sure to kill them, but they're dangerously close to killing you, you can simply Flash away and wait for them to die.

Alternatively to all this, if you don't think you can win a fight, just keep on laning as usual, be careful not to die, farm up, and get your core items, at which point losing becomes an impossibility, as I'm about to explain.

( You can also go gank mid lane with your ultimate if you see a good opportunity )

Levels 7-13

Warwick is a godly fighter here for various reasons. One being he usually finishes his early-game core items here ( reaches Bilgewater Cutlass ), meaning he's very tanky and has a lot of sustain. At this point he can recover around 40 HP per auto-attack, meaning it's hard to poke him out of the lane. Additionally, Hungering Strike has a few levels in it / is maxed, so it hits like a truck and heals more than an instant Health Potion.

Here you want to start playing more aggressively, poking your enemy with auto-attacks every time they get in your range, and even just walking up to them to auto-attack them, if they're not surrounded by a lot of minions. You shouldn't be afraid of fighting them AT ALL because each of your auto-attacks heals for a 3rd or more of the damage their own auto-attacks do. Even if you initially seem lower than them in HP, remember Infinite Duress followed by Hungering Strike instantly turns any fight in your favour. What's more, with x2 Doran's Blade and Bilgewater Cutlass, your ult heals you for even more than it did at level 6, and does more damage too, as it scales with AD. The result is that it's extremely hard for an enemy to judge whether or not they're winning a fight as chances are, they've never seen this type of Lanewick before, and don't know just how much Infinite Duress followed by Hungering Strike can change the tide of a fight.

And this is why despite being a champion that relies on auto-attacks to win fights, but has no CC that forces an enemy to take your auto-attacks ( like Mocking Shout ), this type of Lanewick is viable. People will let you auto-attack them repeatedly instead of running from you because it looks like they're winning the fight. Then you reveal your trap card and they're dead, or suddenly you have nearly 500 more HP than them.

No one realizes BotRK Lanewick is one of the strongest fighters in the game, and that's why he's so strong. If they did, they wouldn't fight me, and if they didn't fight me, I wouldn't get kills because Warwick can only truly hurt enemies in sustained fights, not pokes. So my only source of gold in-come during laning phase would be CS, something Warwick is comparatively bad at getting compared to many other champions. But thanks to people's own stupidity, I am able to earn various 1v1 kills during laning phase on a champion who, in theory, should have low kill potential.






Resistances (armor, magic resist) synergize well with all tanky champions, due to mitigating damage. The higher a champion's HP, the more damage they have to take, which means the more damage they're mitigating through resistances; the tankier your champion, the more they benefit from resistances.

Resistances have a special synergy with Warwick because while he doesn't innately have super high HP like someone such as Cho'Gath, his sustain replaces HP. For example, if you have 3000 HP, and regenerate 30 HP before dying, you essentially had 3030 HP. In Warwick's case, if you have 3000 HP, and regenerate 1000 HP before dying, you essentially had 4000 HP.

This is why I don't recommend building Warmog's Armor on Warwick. He already has a large total HP pool without it simply by sustaining. Every tanky item I buy is one with resistances.

And it's also why I build Blade of the Ruined King and in some games Bloodthirster. I build a lot of resistances, so the higher my sustain, the better my resistances are.

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