How to beat Warwick

Common role: Jungle

The best counter to Warwick in Jungle is Maokai: 55.3% win rate over 138 ranked games on patch 26.17.

A healing jungle diver who sniffs out low-health prey and suppresses your carry.

What makes Warwick dangerous

Warwick heals off all the damage he deals, sees a blood trail toward low-health enemies, and his ultimate is a leap that suppresses a target (a full lockdown) for a guaranteed pick. He's a strong early ganker and a durable diver who latches onto a carry and won't let go.

How to play against Warwick

• 1Don't sit at low health near him — his passive tracks and heals off wounded targets, and he ganks lanes that are already low.
• 2Buy Grievous Wounds — Warwick lives entirely off his lifesteal. Anti-heal turns his dives into losing fights.
• 3Save a QSS or a Flash for his ultimate suppression. If you can't cleanse it, position so he can't reach your carry with the leap.
• 4He's kiteable — his engage is his R leap or walking. Slows and peel keep him off your backline in extended fights.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Healing is hard-countered by Grievous Wounds.
• ✓Ultimate suppression is removed by QSS/Quicksilver.
• ✓Predictable dives onto low-health targets.
• ✓Kiteable outside his R leap.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Warwick's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  Eternal Hunger

  Warwick's basic attacks deal bonus magic damage. If Warwick is below 50% health, he heals the same amount. If Warwick is below 25% health, this healing triples.

  Strong: heals off all his damage and senses low-health prey. Weak: Grievous Wounds cuts the heal — anti-heal makes his dives losing trades.

• Q
  Jaws of the Beast

  Warwick lunges forward and bites his target, dealing damage based on their maximum health and healing for damage dealt.

• W
  Blood Hunt

  Warwick senses enemies below 50% health, gaining Move Speed toward and attack speed against them. When they fall below 25% health, he frenzies and these bonuses triple.

• E
  Primal Howl

  Warwick gains damage reduction for 2.5 seconds. At the end, or if re-activated, he howls, causing nearby enemies to flee for 1 second.

• R
  Infinite Duress

  Warwick leaps in a direction (scaling with his bonus Move Speed), suppressing the first champion he collides with for 1.5 seconds.

  Strong: a leap that suppresses a target — a full lockdown for a guaranteed kill. Weak: QSS/Quicksilver breaks the suppression; position so the leap can't reach your carry.

Itemization

Warwick is AD with heavy self-healing. Grievous Wounds is essential, a QSS/Quicksilver Sash breaks his ultimate suppression, and armor plus slows kite his dives. Don't walk around low on HP near him.

This guide covers Warwick's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.