Warwick — League Classic (Season 3)

Classic builds

Era-accurate Season 3 (2013) builds.In-game values and the live meta may differ before the July 29 launch.Why?

League Classic is a curated recreation of old League and is still being balanced ahead of the July 29 launch, so in-game values and the live meta may differ. We’ll update builds as the mode settles.

AD On-Hit Jungle

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Items

Starting

Hunter's Machete
Health Potionx5

Boots

Berserker's Greavesdefault: attack speed
Mercury's Treadsvs heavy CC

Core build path

Spirit of the Elder Lizardthe era AD jungle item
Wit's Endattack speed, MR, on-hit magic
Blade of the Ruined King%HP on-hit, lifesteal, a slow
Spirit Visageamplifies all his healing

Situational

Buy these only when the game calls for it. They are not part of the core path.

hybrid sustain and a slow

Hextech Gunbladespell vamp for Q and R

HP and a sticky slow

Frozen Mallet

vs heavy AD or attack speed

Frozen Heart
Randuin's Omen

more damage

Iceborn GauntletSpellblade on Hungering Strike

survivability or reset

Guardian Angel

Summoner spells

Smite
FlashorGhost

Max order

R at 6/11/16. W at 1 for the first clear, early E point at 3; W maxed last.

Ability leveling order from level 1 to 18
Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		1		2	3		4	5
W	1													2	3		4	5
E			1						2	3		4	5
R						1					2					3

Runes

Marks

9/9

9× Greater Mark of Attack Speed

Seals

9/9

9× Greater Seal of Armor

Glyphs

9/9

9× Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction

Quintessences

3/3

3× Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage

Masteries

21/9/0

Offense / Defense / Utility

Offense

4/42/2
4/4
3/31/1
2/2
1/13/3
1/1

Defense

4/4
3/31/3
1/1

Utility

Notes

The original point-and-click, you're dead. Warwick's whole game is Infinite Duress: catch someone out, suppress them for two full seconds while your team collapses, and heal to full off the on-hit strikes. Blood Scent means no low-health enemy ever escapes. He is a weak pre-6 ganker but an unkillable duelist and one of the safest scaling junglers in the game, since Eternal Thirst plus Spirit Visage keeps him topped up through almost anything. Beat him by warding the suppress and putting a QSS on the carry he wants.

Not hand-checked yet, so treat these values as provisional. Source: Season 3 MOBAFire community guides (pre-2017 rework, 2013), AD on-hit jungle build.

AP Jungle

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Items

Starting

Hunter's Machete
Health Potionx5

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoesdefault: magic penetration
Mercury's Treadsvs heavy CC

Core build path

Spirit of the Spectral Wraithera AP jungle item: vamp, CDR
Nashor's ToothAP and attack speed to clear
Hextech Gunbladespell vamp for Q and R
Rabadon's Deathcapturns Hungering Strike into a nuke

Situational

Buy these only when the game calls for it. They are not part of the core path.

burst to pair with the suppress

Deathfire Grasp

to keep targets in range

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

vs magic resist stacking

Void Staff

more healing amp and MR

Spirit Visage

vs heavy AD, or to survive

Zhonya's Hourglass

Summoner spells

Smite
Flash

Max order

R at 6/11/16. W at 1 for the first clear, early E point at 3; W maxed last.

Ability leveling order from level 1 to 18
Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		1		2	3		4	5
W	1													2	3		4	5
E			1						2	3		4	5
R						1					2					3

Runes

Marks

9/9

9× Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

Seals

9/9

9× Greater Seal of Armor

Glyphs

9/9

9× Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist

Quintessences

3/3

3× Greater Quintessence of Ability Power

Masteries

21/0/9

Offense / Defense / Utility

Offense

4/4
4/4
3/31/1
3/31/1
4/4
1/1

Defense

Utility

1/13/33/3
1/3
1/1

Notes

Pure cheese that worked because nobody expected the dog to do magic damage. Ult someone, Hungering Strike for a percent-health chunk plus a big heal, and a squishy is often just gone, and Hextech Gunblade means he is back to full immediately. Weaker sustained damage than the on-hit build and it folds to magic resist, but the burst-and-full-heal pattern out of Infinite Duress is genuinely nasty. Always the niche pick: the AD on-hit build was the meta one.

Not hand-checked yet, so treat these values as provisional. Source: Season 3 MOBAFire community guides (pre-2017 rework, 2013), off-meta AP jungle build.

Abilities

Passive
Eternal Thirst
Each of Warwick's basic attacks deals bonus magic damage and heals him for that amount, stealing more and more with each successive attack against the same target. His baseline sustain, and the reason healing amplification from Spirit Visage is so strong on him.
Q
Hungering Strike
Cooldown 10/9/8/7/6sCost 70/80/90/100/110 ManaRange 400
Warwick lunges and bites a single target for magic damage equal to a flat amount plus a percentage of their maximum health (capped against monsters), healing himself for the damage dealt. It scales with ability power, which is what the AP build is built on. His sustain, his dueling tool, and his best damage.
W
Hunters Call
Cooldown 24/22/20/18/16sCost 35 ManaRange 1250
Warwick howls, granting himself and nearby allied champions bonus attack speed for a few seconds. His clear-speed and DPS steroid, and the reason the first point goes here at level 1.
E
Blood Scent
Cost No CostRange 1600
Toggle. Warwick senses nearby low-health enemy champions, revealing them, and gains bonus movement speed while moving toward a revealed target. The hunt: kept off while clearing so it does not reveal him, switched on to gank and chase.
R
Infinite Duress
Cooldown 90/80/70sCost 100/125/150 ManaRange 700
Warwick leaps to a target champion and suppresses them for a couple of seconds, striking them several times. Every strike applies on-hit effects and Eternal Thirst's healing, and the ability deals magic damage scaling with ability power. He is immune to crowd control during the leap. Point-and-click lockdown that heals him to full, and the whole reason he is picked.

Base data from Data Dragon 3.13.24, not yet hand-checked. Old-patch ddragon values are unreliable and League Classic may differ.

Base stats

Health: 428; +98 / lvl
Health regen: 7.05; +0.8 / lvl
Mana: 190; +30 / lvl
Mana regen: 7.1; +0.6 / lvl
Attack damage: 56.76; +3.375 / lvl
Attack speed: 0.679; +2.88% / lvl
Armor: 16; +3.5 / lvl
Magic resist: 30; +1.25 / lvl
Move speed: 345
Attack range: 125