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Warwick Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 13,768 gamesUpdated

52.1%win rate0.6%pick3.9%ban

Who counters Warwick

Every Top matchup for Warwick, ranked →

How to build Warwick

Plated Steelcaps→Blade of The Ruined King→Stridebreaker→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Blade of The Ruined King → Stridebreaker → Death's Dance

57.4% win rate 8% of games 634 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveRevitalizeSecond Wind43% of games
SpellsFlashBarrierFlash + Barrier84%
Skills
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Jaws of the Beast
14578
Blood Hunt
29101213
Primal Howl
314151718
Infinite Duress
61116
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Warwick build →
52.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.2% over 34,446 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.1% over 13,768 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.5%at Emerald+
0.6%pick rate
3.9%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
54.4%under 22 min
50.7%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Warwick champion portraitT WarwickvsIrelia champion portraitT Irelia
8 / 6 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Stridebreaker→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

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Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Warwick champion portraitT WarwickvsSett champion portraitT Sett
1 / 2 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Serpent's Fang

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEER
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Warwick champion portraitT WarwickvsK'Sante champion portraitT K'Sante
3 / 4 / 9

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Zeke's Convergence→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 52.1% win rate · 43% of games · 5,745 games
PrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveRevitalizeSecond Wind
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.4% win rate · 14% of games · 1,914 games
PrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveSecond WindRevitalize
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier84%52.6%11,888 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite6%48.7%872 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps53%Mercury's Treads28%Boots of Swiftness8%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 53.0% win rate

Warwick build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Stridebreaker1st
  2. Blade of The Ruined King2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path58.2% win rate385 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Warwick →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 13,954 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
52% · 53.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
28% · 52.2% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
8% · 57.0% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 42.7% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
3% · 53.4% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
2% · 49.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blade of The Ruined King+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 37.9% win rate · 533 games
  2. Stridebreaker›Blade of The Ruined King+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 48.6% win rate · 475 games
  3. Kraken Slayer›Experimental Hexplate+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 52.8% win rate · 265 games
  4. Stridebreaker›Blade of The Ruined King+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 47.3% win rate · 243 games
  5. Blade of The Ruined King+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 36.5% win rate · 233 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Warwick against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Warwick's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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