I'll just jump right into it, and go through all his things in detail.

You can overview his abilities here:
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Warwick

Passive: No scaling other than level scaling, scales incredibly poorly. Only scaling is with attack speed.


Hungering Strike: It's ok, and has innate scaling since it goes by percent health. It's just that... compare it to Mundo's cleaver. Mundo's cleaver at level 1 is doing about the same percent damage as Hungering strike at level 5, with a slow, and at range, at lower cooldown than max rank hungering strike at all ranks, and its minimum flat damage is strictly higher... and its max damage vs monsters is more than double! Hrrm hrrm, so if you wanted a high sustain, tanky type jungler who's great at chasing people down... why would you ever take Warwick over Mundo?


Hunter's Call: Very good, and has utility to help his team. I don't think anything needs to be changed. Scales innately with attack damage and on-hit effects.


Blood Scent: A real nice ability! Great range, great effect, difficult to truly master and with interesting counterplay since enemy can see the buff. At lower ranks, though, the speed buff is just too small. This is WW's only means of securing kills, and considering the hoops you have to go through to utilize it, it could probably stand to have the same speed buff at all ranks, even if this requires a nerf to its rather huge radius. Also, it doesn't work on stealth champs when they are stealthed. I think a compromise that would be fair to stealth champs is to make it work like similar abilities in dota/hon: it would reveal their LOCATION, but not their model. So you could follow them, but not target them until they actually get out of stealth or you use some means of revealing them.


Infinite Duress: This is where WW's kit really falls down, in my opinion. Infinite Duress just has so many problems... It basically has all the downfalls of Malzahar's ults with none of the great power to justify it.

If you read the tooltip, the skill sounds pretty awesome, right? You do FIVE attacks! Holy ****, 5x AD scaling omgwtfbbq. PLUS magic damage. AND you get 30% lifesteal? Hoo boy, how amazing!

Then you use it and do no damage, and you realize.... you don't do any attacks at all during the ult. You just apply on hit effects 5 times and do the ults magic damage which is, at most, a 2.0 AD ratio. And that lifesteal? It does nothing for you, since you're doing magic damage. It's just a holdover from when the ult used to do physical damage, and they never ****ing bothered to change it to spellvamp. For gods sake, Riven can lock someone down longer and do more damage with just her Q and E.

So those are his abilities. They have problems numberswise, as I've listed. You could of course fix them with just numbers tweaks, but I think this would be doing a disservice to Warwick and Warwick players, as it wouldn't fix the fundamental issues with WW's kit.

What are these issues? The issue is with his damage types and his scaling. WW's skills and passive all do magic damage, but not enough to justify building him like a mage. Thus, he never gets spell penetration, and his ability damage languishes. Meanwhile, he only has two abilities that scale with his own gear: his Q, which scales ONLY with AP, and his ult, which scales ONLY with AD, yet does only magic damage! In other words... Warwick is like a hybrid, except instead of benefitting greatly from both AP and AD, he benefits hardly at all from either.

What is the net result of this? All Warwicks, when they aren't building pure tank, build on-hit. This doesn't help his Q at all, but it does synergyze with Hunter's Call and his ult. But wait, even though his ult benefits from on-hit effects, it doesn't scale at ALL with attack speed, which all on-hit items have! In fact, the more attack speed you have, the WORSE your ult becomes compared to just autoattacking. After all, at the attackspeed cap you lose almost five autos in that 1.8 second suppression... which probably does more damage than your ult, which only has a 2.0 AD ratio and not spectacular base damage, ALL magic to boot!

So overall, if you REALLY want to fix WW, make his abilities scale in such a way that WW has something to build towards. Nowadays, it'd honestly be better for him, metawise, if all his kit just did physical damage again, because armor pen items are so good, and his ult would completely apply black cleaver stacks.

An easy way to fix the reverse scaling of his ult, and give it some oomph and have it synergyze with Hunter's Call instead of just wasting his buff duration would be to just have him autoattack while doing his ult in addition to his ult stuff. Give that ult an AA reset too, and bam, Warwick has some bite again.

first post tl;dr
Warwick's passive and Q kind of suck, his E kind of sucks at low level, his ult sucks the big one to the point of being pretty much broken.

second post tl;dr
Warwick's has nothing to build for, damagewise, because his abilities have ****ty scaling, scale on totally different things, and actually scale negatively relative to just autoattacking. Also, his damage is split types but he can't justify building hybrid items.

My buddy constantly plays ww and while his ganks are sub-par till lvl 6, he is still one of the few junglers that can do it without smite which is a rather large plus (yes, I am aware it would be harder, but still.)

WW's only "useless" ability is his Scent, the upside is that it costs nothing and is toggleable.

His passive scales with AS, Magic Penetration, and Spirit Visage.

His Q scales with AP, CDR, Magic Penetration, and Spirit Visage.

His W scales with CDR.

His E scales with nothing.

His R scales with AD, CDR, On-Hit, and Spirit Visage.

Easy (good sustain): Build tanky. Spirit of the Golem (Jungle), Spirit Visage, and Frozen Mallet being good choices.

Medium (good dps): Build AS/On-hit: Spirit of the Elder Lizard (Jungle), Blade of the Ruined King, and Zephyr being good choices

Hard (good burst): Build AP. Spirit of the Spectral Wraith (Jungle), Malady, and Liandry's Torment being good choices.

WW is the easiest AD jungler and Nunu is the easiest AP jungler. Both of them can play relatively the same way, but WW has an easier time with AA enhancers and Nunu has an easier time with ability enhancers. Both can do the tanky job well enough.

I know Warwick isn't that popular, but surely some more people have thoughts?