Warwick·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Warwick Top build, you should take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Revitalize and Second Wind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Stridebreaker. For your last 3 items, you should build Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 56.0% winrate over 4 629 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Warwick Top build would be to take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Revitalize with Second Wind in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Blade of The Ruined King, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Stridebreaker as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and Thornmail. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 57.7% win rate over 1 771 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Second Wind and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Last Stand with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Stridebreaker as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Hullbreaker as a third item. You want to finish the build with Warmog's Armor, Dead Man's Plate and Thornmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 58.0% win rate across 1 088 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Warwick Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Revitalize with Second Wind as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Hullbreaker as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Kraken Slayer as third item. The last 3 options are Stridebreaker, Kaenic Rookern and Titanic Hydra. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 58.7% win rate over 796 matches played.

Situational Warwick Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Warwick build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.