@Riot - If the point of Warwick's rework was to make him viable and easy to learn...
I've been playing Warwick on the PBE, and he's viable, but he's not particularly what I'd call a starter champ. He's a bit too complex to be that. He's got way too many secondary effects and bells and whistles to be even remotely simple. Ivern has a simpler kit than Warwick, just saying; all of his abilities are self explanatory and one button press always does one thing.
For Warwick, Q is tricky, and the whole lunge aspect of it is clunky, in the same sense that Taliyah's old W was. It's super awkward to hold the button and lunge, and I've been having difficulty executing it. This is not a problem that should exist on what is supposed to be a simple, "baby's first jungler" champion.
W is fine for what it does, but I have some issues. For starters, there's a TON of UI clutter when the Blood Scent passive goes off. It's one thing to have like 5 different blood trails going out at once, it's another thing entirely to have that jagged red effect covering most of the screen, and it comes off as overwhelming and can cause you to miss things at the edge of your vision. Additionally, W doesn't do what it says it does when you activate it. The passive first of all sets the stage by stating that it's global. The active states that it briefly senses all champions, and then you get a blood scent of the nearest champ, regardless of HP. This is a lie. I was in the base, and I cast W, and there was no blood scent, despite what the words were telling me. If there is a range limit to the activated portion of W, please indicate such, and don't mislead it as being global like the passive.
E is pretty much fine as it is, I like it.
R is where things get awkward. First of all, the wording is just complicated and needs to be rewritten. "Warwick leaps 2.5 seconds worth of movement speed in a direction, suppressing the first champion he collides with for 1.5 seconds" This is overly complicated and is not a valid measure of distance for players who can't do fluid algebra in the middle of a game. 2.5 Seconds of movement? Really? And how do we know how fast we go in 2.5 seconds, and then how do we apply that to leap distance? This desperately needs to be simplified for clarity's sake. For instance, write it like this, I'm sure you have people that can work out the math for you so that it comes out the same: "Warwick leaps 100(+30% Move Speed) units in a direction, suppressing the first champion he collides with for 1.5 seconds" I had several issues with executing this ability as well, as the leap mechanic is a bit clumsy and it's difficult to gauge how far he can go or if you're going to just waste the ult trying to leap over a small wall. Furthermore, there is absolutely no mention that this ability is channeled. None whatsoever. This is a problem, and again, needs to be clarified for new players. I started inputting movement commands after I leaped at an enemy, and the whole Suppression canceled. If I'm using my dodgy ult to leap at an enemy, I want to suppress them without accidentally canceling it and putting it back on a long as hell cooldown. It's fine for champions like Miss Fortune, who are at a range, but for Warwick, it makes him more complicated and problematic if you end up blowing one of your best CCs because you input a move command and then you're stuck in the face of an enemy who will blast you for messing up. It wouldn't break him to make him Suppress the enemy without it being a channeled ability, especially since the ability can be intercepted.
Overall, Warwick plays decently, but again, I cannot stress enough that his kit is too complicated to call him a starter champion anymore. He's not the starter jungler, because he's got too much stuff and it's just a busy kit. Yi is a prime example of what Warwick should be - he's simple, one button does one action, and he's pretty straightforward. Warwick is overly complicated and way too nuanced and requires a lot of learning to master. So in this sense, you failed to remake him as a simple starter champ, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's bad on the whole.
