Warwick, The Blood Hunter aka The Original Hunter

Dand The Lion·4/25/2016, 3:31:19 AM·2 votes·693 views

So, I understand this guy doesn't have the lowest winrate nor the lowest pick rate, but I just feel as junglers go he lacks a lot. He is an all in champ with no escape, but if building take he does little damage. I see this as an issue to the jungling community because he is the starting jungler. He is what introduced us to our beloved jungle. Even Riot back in season 4 never thought Warwick would become popular. Along side other junglers there are just way better options, and along other hunters he is the joke. No escapes, no built in tenacity, no real defenses, but I think those can be easily fixed for our Original Hunter here. Also, a visual update wouldn't be bad, but here we go. I wanted to keep Warwick feeling the same, but with a touch up here and there to make him somewhat viable.

New Passive: Blood Bounty -Cooldown for this is 4 minutes, but he may change targets after 90 seconds. -Warwick places a bounty on target enemy champion. His auto attacks against marked champion heals him for a proportion of the damage dealt, and if he is successful in killing his target he gains an additional 150 gold.

Q: Hungering Strike -I enjoy his q and don't think it needs changes, but if I were to give it one I would make it reduce targets armor or magic resist for a short duration.

W: Hunter's Call Passive- Warwick's consecutive auto attacks against the same target grants 4 on-hit damage as magic damage stacking up to 3 times for a total of 12 and healing him for the same. (The passives initial on-hit damage increases by 1 per rank so starting at max rank it be 8-24) Active- It remains the same, but now doubles the W's passive damage and healing.

E: Blood Scent

  • Remains the same, but now passively grants 5% tenacity per rank.

R: Infinite Duress

  • Remains the same

Okay, those are my ideas, and now time to explain why. I believe giving Warwick this new passive gives him more sustain in fights, and motivates Warwick players to go out and gank their bounty. With adjusting his original passive to his W I think it gives a more versatile skill leveling. Now you really have to decide what you want to max first and last. With giving him tenacity it makes it a bit harder to kite him, which was needed as he has no cc or gap closers besides his ult.

There you go and thank you for reading please provide feedback down below whether you agree or not.

1 Comments

3lue4/25/2016, 6:00:48 AM1 votes

This rework would give newer players a lead in towards higher macro play junglers, such as Kindred or Skarner, which I think is a wonderful inclusion, especially because the current jungle is all about macro play.