Why does Warwick W passive not work as described?

Player3Th0mas·4/21/2018, 7:14:25 PM·51 votes·15,989 views

Warwick senses enemies below 50% health, gaining movement speed toward and attack speed against them. When they fall below 20% health, he frenzies and these bonuses triple.

  • Unless Warwick just respawned and the enemy hasn't taken any damage

This is the most frustrating one and is the only one that really should be fixed. You just respawned after a team fight, you have vision on the enemy, he's 10% HP, but since he hasn't been damaged by anything since you spawned you don't get any movement speed. I can see him being low, give me the buff ffs.

  • Unless the game decides to screw you by giving and taking away the movement speed at random, even while out of combat

So it looks like you're playing skyrim when your stamina is out and you're sprinting whenever you can. Fast slow fast slow fast slow. No consistency

  • Unless the enemy is damaged by neutral monsters and falls below 50% when there is no vision on them

Since when does "senses globally" mean "when you have vision on them"?

My point actually being: I know ww is pretty busted atm, but don't you dare nerf him without fixing these bugs first/at the same time.

39 Comments

iPooUnicorns4/21/2018, 7:22:01 PM12 votes

His W is really buggy but Riot hasn't addressed it because of how strong he already is.

Hibeki4/22/2018, 12:17:53 AM6 votes

I would be fine with making his W so much more clear and consistent if they took off some power from Q.

And I love warwick by the way, not really calling for nerfs. I liked that on release you could choose the style of maxing Q, W, or E first (I like to max W) But now its just Q every time

Hügö4/22/2018, 8:16:45 AM3 votes

I like the W movespeed when i get it in the wrong direction.

xXCairoKingXx4/22/2018, 1:47:37 AM3 votes

Would be really broken if enemy Jg finished their final camp before first back and ww knew where they are and ran them down while they had 1 hp and are in the store already. Also would kinda give up the enemy junglers whereabouts which is also kinda broken.

PiggyTheAstro4/21/2018, 8:20:26 PM2 votes

DrMundo and Warwick main here, can confirm that his W is buggy af (annoying, but the fact that Warwick is OP makes up for it)

PhantomGG4/22/2018, 6:59:07 AM1 votes

pretty sure his W glitches is the pure and only reason we don't see him in pro play

Spank the Fox4/22/2018, 7:16:28 AM1 votes

What do you mean “even while out of combat” regarding his movespeed buff? It only works out of combat. He loses the MS buff while in combat.

Summonah123694/22/2018, 12:34:31 PM1 votes

As a Warwick main this is very relatable. Especially hard to follow a blood trail trying to keep your Movement Speed up.

Humble Aatrox4/22/2018, 3:02:03 PM1 votes

Warwick has SO MANY bugs its like Mordekaiser 2.0

IAintDarius4/22/2018, 4:37:18 PM1 votes

Yeah ok but can we talk about how I'm clearly on the range line to Q someone and it just doesnt want to happen?

Wtf Jax4/22/2018, 10:52:06 PM1 votes

His w only work Out of combat.. so if u hit him while he is running he will go slower

SwiftKitten884/22/2018, 10:56:21 PM1 votes

well it would be flat out broken if he could see the enemies trails and therefore location if they got below 50 without vision on them.. we cant have that.

but yeah the re-spawning thing makes no sense if he has vision of them he should get the speed regardless of if they have been damaged or not.

ZerglingOne4/23/2018, 10:01:43 AM1 votes

Should read like this:

If Warwick is alive and the enemy takes damage at or below 50% HP. Create an invisible, untargetable, invulnerable minion with unlimited move speed at their location that follows them. While this minion lives, Warwick has increased movement speed running towards it and gets fog of war information about them.

Keskiyo5/16/2018, 10:28:15 PM1 votes

Lol damage reduction, movespeed and a fear built into one skill, what else are people going to bitch about?

Arcanine194/22/2018, 12:35:40 AM1 votes

ikr, I remember after his rework being released warwick was really good because you could tell the position of the enemy jungler by the start of the game because most of them would get below 50% hp during their first clear at some point

thecowley4/22/2018, 4:50:35 AM1 votes

W first every time. His w working in creep is what makes him such a powerful power farmer and objective clearer.

Tundra Hunter4/22/2018, 5:48:43 AM1 votes

That is a very good point!!! Even more so as they said, they want ww players to max w first, and to do so, they nerf q to the ground.... Well, we don't want to max w because it is full of bug. And it is badly described in the tooltip.

Kavren20554/22/2018, 6:11:30 AM1 votes

The middle is the worst for me