Please nerf Warwick, particularly sustain.

Linna Excel··6 votes·803 views

60% win rate, 79% ban rate. His passive is just too good in the jungle and he's got too much synergy with devourer in specific, but with on hit items in general. I'm not sure how a life steal effect goes with a werewolf either... that's a vampire thing. On top of all that, his Q takes out 1/6th of a targets max HP on a 6 second CD before any CDR while giving him more sustain.

What the crap is that all about?

That's a large amount of spike damage and sustain on a short CD skill. Against someone with 3000 HP (a tank) that's nearly 900 magic damage and 720 healing every 6 seconds before AP ratios are taken into account. How could that level of brokenness alone be allowed to persist this long? His ult is a 2 second stun that not only does a lot of base damage, but gets off a ton of on-hit effects... on-hit effects that tend to heal him like item 3153. Get that item and it's really a question if your team wants to throw the game for you or not.

Really his game play is extremely simple and easy. Point to click abilities only. He's got the ability to stay in the jungle forever with all his sustain. Sure he can't gank before 6, but a lot of junglers can't do that either. You could give a drunken idiot warwick and as long as he gets devourer and bork, his team will win.

Then there's the problem with counterplay... he's got a ton of sustain and there aren't many anti-sustain options in the game. item 3123 sucks overall. item 3165 needs you to get someone low first, WW doesn't really let you let him get low that easily and tends to build tanky after his core 2 damage items. summoner 14 has a long CD and TBH, if he ults, you are screwed by the time you come out of stun and are too far behind.

In a game that's supposed to promote skill, in this meta WW doesn't do that and desperately needs to be nerfed on some level. Also he's too well adapted to the current jungle meta with his sustain, he's got too much of it and it's too much of a liability not to pick/ban him. If you are absolute first pick and he isn't banned, you have to pick him or your team's really screwed. If your team captain doesn't ban him and doesn't pick him, your team is screwed in champ select if the other team is smart enough to grab him before you individually can do anything about it.

Riot, if you believe teams shouldn't be screwed/autowin in champ select, or if you think a champ shouldn't have a 79% ban rate, you need to do something about warwick now. To put it in context, when Soraka got to the win rate and ban rate that WW did, she was nerfed and then reworked to the point a good number of her older players didn't exactly like the new her... she's also a PITA to lane against for the other team even if her win rate still kinda sucks. Well guess what? WW is that level of toxicity right now.

2 Comments

GG Beers2 votes

Didn't read but this is OFN bro, riot has said WW is OP and is getting the bat.

JoebooLovesU1 votes

agree 100%. warwick is a game ruiner at this point. Not only is all of this true but he is maybe one of this simplest and most boring champions to play. Nothing is worse than being forced to play a boring no skill champion because he is simply to good and you don't want the other team to have him. Please fix asap.

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