Any Riot Update on Warwick?
Don't usually bother with these kinds of posts, however after reading the last patch notes I feel incline to at least ask. I started playing this game late season 4, I lived in NY and had 120 ping on a good day, so as I learned the game and decided on jungling I opted to play Warwick. Hes very easy to play and when you're bad at the game his late game scaling his one of the best in the game for low elo. I found though as I climbed that my lanes were getting wrecked harder and harder and the opponents didn't simply back to base with kills and let the game reset. Now if I play Warwick I can pretty much expect multiple lanes to lose, my jungle to be heavily warded and my champion without any real meaningful way to help bring the game back.
I kind of hoped that Warwick would fall in line with bruisers, I think Aatrox was eluded to be in that group as well. However he just doesn't really get that much from many of those bruiser items, save maybe Steraks. All in all Wawick seems to fit into multiple roles depending on build, yet for the first twenty minutes he is pretty much forced to play as a mix of all of them [assassin/bruiser/duelist]. Sounds great right? Not when he gets the weaknesses of all of them combined for most of the game. He's assassin like when he hits 6, but thanks to his lack of any meaningful damage without proper items he serves more as a brief lock down that is dependent on your laner securing the real kill potential. Unlike other assassins as well he simply throws himself into enemies with no way to safely escape if things go south, nothing in his kit allows for that 'outplay potential' I hear so much about. He gets kited to hell even with his e passive active (which is a great concept but I think much too lacking. Hes a bloodthirsty beast, make it give him increasing buffs to things like ms/as and ult cd the more hurt/longer the injured are detected. That would force people to disengage fights, make laning better and give him more presence, obviously reducing the scaling range would make sense.) And yeah as a duelist he just stands there auto attacking, sometimes getting one or two Q's off before his mana is dry and then watching the enemy realize they can just walk away whenever they want.
Warwick was the last champion to receive the oldschool Riot nerf treatment, when it was more the game state and items making champions seem bad or suffocating for play. So devourer comes out, well over tuned and right as it seems Warwick will at least see meaningful play again hes dumpstered completely, now he can't even be the constant walking buff he used to be at max w rank, which also hurt his clears for people who max w first. So whats up Riot, is this champion going to see either some buffs or get the rework treatment? Right now I can't imagine having one champion whom the enemy team knows for absolute certain gives them a free lane till at least 7 minutes is good for the game or the champion. I mean even Yi can show up lvl 2-3 and q in to an aggressive and low lane, Shyvana, while lack luster pre six can still rush in with w and get a nice e/q onto an enemy and get respectable damage in.
So will Warwick see some attention soon? Maybe a rework? One nod for no, two for yes.