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 Lethal Tempo 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 56.9% winrate over 18 853 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 Lethal Tempo 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 Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Stridebreaker, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Blade of The Ruined King as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Spirit Visage, Sterak's Gage and Thornmail. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 54.9% win rate over 1 993 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Press the Attack as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Revitalize with Second Wind 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 Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Stridebreaker as a third item. You want to finish the build with Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and Thornmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 55.1% win rate across 1 032 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, Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind and Revitalize as your primary rune tree, and Last Stand with Presence of Mind as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Stridebreaker as third item. The last 3 options are Sterak's Gage, Thornmail and Spirit Visage. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.2% win rate over 601 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.