CertainlyT is reworking Warwick :^)

Oh, Jesus Christ.

WW now has: -3 slows -a dash -a blink -a global ult -is resourceless -three hit mechanic -triple passive -two shields -transforms -has a modified AA -has a revive on cooldown ability -a minigame

I can't wait.

As someone who played Morde before CerT got his hands on him, I'm not too happy with his work. People cite Cait and Graves as successes, but Cait's changes were fairly tame comparatively and Graves became a menace for quite a while before the live balance team managed to wrangle him down to sane levels of power. Even now he's still a very strong champ, just not completely broken like before. And lets not forget that CerT's champion designs are generally overloaded or possess mechanics that, while new and interesting, can be horrible to play against.

With that in mind, let's look at Warwicks Q now:

Active: Warwick swipes at the target enemy, dealing magic damage and healing himself for 80% of the damage dealt. Against enemy champions, Hungering Strike's base damage changes to a percentage of its target's maximum health if it's higher than the flat damage.

A fairly straightforward, easy to understand ability. Simple, yet effective. Now let's give it a CertainlyT upgrade:

Passive: Warwick's auto attacks on enemy champions reduce the cooldown of this ability by one second. If an enemy champion is below 32.7% of their maximum health, this ability does true damage. Any unit swiped will gain the Scent debuff for five seconds.

Scent allows Warwick to move quicker in the direction of a unit affected by the debuff. His base movement speed is increased 150% + 1% every 30 AD + 1.28% every 90 AP as long as he is moving toward a target affected with scent. Warwick and his allies will have true vision of the unit with the debuff for the duration.

Active: Warwick swipes at the target enemy, dealing magic damage and healing himself for 80% of the damage dealt. Unless it's Tuesday, then the percentage is increased to 130%. Against enemy champions, Hungering Strike's base damage changes to a percentage of its target's maximum health in addition to the flat damage. If the enemy champion is using a skin, the target will also take 48/49/50/51/72 + 144% base AD physical damage for four and a half seconds as a bleed effect.

If a bleeding enemy is attacked by an ally, Warwick can re-activate this ability to leap to the target, gaining a permanent 1% bonus to his attack speed as he does so. If a target is leaped on, they are stunned, rooted, and silenced for 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 seconds. If the player playing Warwick hasn't eaten for eight hours, the duration is increased to 5 seconds.

If an enemy champion is killed by this ability, the mana cost is completely refunded. If an enemy champion is not killed by this ability, only half the cost is refunded instead.

I feel the same way, Warwick was my first main (I started playing during the preseason 5) and I also got my first pentakill with him, but I had to stop playing him because he is so boring and has such a low impact on his damage (right click, press q and w and hope for the best). CertainlyT is also one of my favorite champion designers, I just love playing (against) his champs.

Really it' like flipping a coin. CertainlyT is the definition of awesome but impractical.

I like CertainlyT's reworks. Caitlyn and Graves were pretty decent reworks. Graves is a little OP, but thats not design really, just really overtuned numbers for the most part. I don't like his champion designs overall though. I like they push the boundaries of the game, but sometimes he kind of pushes them to make some strange hump in the boundaries without breaking them, making some strange champion that feels like it's not designed for League but yet still is.

Anyways, I hope Warwick kind of "transforms" more and more into his inner beast over the course of a match with his rework. Start off pretty human and wolfish (like he is now) and slowly become more and more of a bloody, blood hungry wolf that becomes the apex hunter.

Great. So WW will trade his suppression for 355 MS, 2 dashes, a blink, a shield, 2 burst heals, 2 stuns, a 90% slow, 100 free AD, 30% hybrid pen, and %max hp true damage.

And then we'll all get to complain about it for 3 years while Riot tries to convince us it's balanced and the new Freelo WW players tell everyone else to build a Zhonya's and git gud.

Only thing is: I kinda like WW not for his kit (I mean, the only cool thing is the e, even though it's cool enough by itself) I just hope he will expand more on the "beast" within him. Also I wouldn't want his E and passive to be totally removed, I like them and WW wouldn't feel the same withouth them. But I trust in riot's work, I mean, they might not be balanced, but all the champs he worked on can be incredibly fun to play (frustrating for the enemy, but fun to play for sure).

Ew. CertainlyT is my most hated designer. I hope he doesn't ruin WW or make him too absurd with every ability in the game. I for one wish CertainlyT would be fired from League.

When somebody is being reworked by any of these guys lately I'm extremely hesitant to believe it can end positively. The only update for the mages so far I have a positive opinion on is Vlad. The rest, I have no faith. Hell, look at how Shen is these days! GP's been nerfed to the point of near impracticality, very few of us can use him well because of all the changes, and most of the people I play with are concerned that things are going to keep going in the wrong direction.

With that said, I look forward to the WW rework since it'll likely destroy his win rate significantly, and he's annoying.

Name the last champion CertainlyT touched that isn't/wasn't broken or overbearing

Rip ww you had a good life.

I actually okay with most of his designs, hes not the one that creates the numbers for the champion, he just designs them (So I think). But either way, the champion might come off OP at first , but thats cause they overload them with ridiculous numbers. But the designs for his champions are pretty cool imo.