Support Warwick build with runes and items. Support Warwick guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Warwick build in League of Legends Patch 25.17!
Even though Warwick is not typical support, you are gonna support your team very effectively. With heals, shields and buffs:
Heal summoner spell.
Guardian and Font of Life runes.
Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari and Moonstone Renewer and other items.
Warwick has +5% Healing in ARAM, which makes all healing effects (Redemption or Font of Life included) extra efficient!
Playstyle
🛡️ Play safe, stay in the back and play like support, so you can stay and heal more.
⚔️ Sometimes, you can go in and play more aggressively when the opportunity is right.
💖 Focus on healing and shielding to keep allies alive.
✨ Use Redemption, Locket, and Heal on cooldown for healing.
How to play
General
Your first rush is Redemption.
Your second rush can be Locket of the Iron Solari (vs AoE), Moonstone Renewer (sustain).
Also, Echoes of Helia is pretty good because you can proc it consistently with Font of Life (slow/cc).
Rush second Locket if your team already doing teamfights or when an enemy team has champions with super aoe damage (example: like Fiddle's ult). Otherwise, get Moonstone Renewer #2. The third item should be whatever you did not buy - Locket of the Iron Solari or Moonstone Renewer. That's your core.
Another decent item if you have carry/strong bruiser/strong tank is Knight's Vow.
Try to use summoner spell Heal on cooldown. With Moonstone Renewer, ideally there should be at least two people for maximum healing effect.
Later in the game, for maximum support - you can sell boots for sixth item.
You can get items like Ardent Censer (some auto attackers needed) or Staff of Flowing Water. It will be triggered often enough that it will be worth.
Interesting item is Cryptbloom. If you want to go full healing, you can get it like #4+ item.
Runes
With Cosmic Insight rune from Inspiration tree:
Redemption and Locked of the Iron Solari has 81.92 sec cooldown (down from 90 sec).
Shurelya's Battlesong has 68.12 sec cooldown (down from 75 sec).
Guardian is important rune. It is going to provide tons of shielding. Remember that you need to be close to your allies to proc it.
You can also manipulate it - for example, you can stick to one ally, or avoid some spells that's gonna only waste it.
You will be triggering Font of Life effect, which will heal your allies. It also chains off Moonstone Renewer!
Font of Life total healing is not properly calculated in a post-game lobby. Value is bigger in the game vs. what's displayed in statistics. You heal more!
Another important rule is Cosmic Insight, it reduces cooldown for your active items (so more heals/shielding) and Heal summoner spell.
Redemption
Try to use Redemption on cooldown, when your allies are missing some health. It is best to use when they are grouped. Especially if you already have Moonstone Renewer, it is best to wait (or ping) until they group together, so you can have them all healed.
Remember that you can use Redemption for the damage. However, in general, it is not worth it. Keep it to heal your team!
Be careful when using Redemption while you are dead, and you are about to be respawned. The camera will go to your position, and you can cast it in the spawning pool by mistake. Watch out for bad timing!
Damage
Even though you are not building damage, you still have plenty!
You deal on-hit damage with your Eternal Hunger (Passive).
Your Jaws of the Beast (Q) deals target's maximum health.
You get tons Attack Speed thanks to Blood Hunt (W).
Peel
You can be a pretty good peeler. Enemy going after your carry? Stay close to your allies and fear them with Primal Howl (E).
You can keep Infinite Duress (R) to protect your carry.
Tips and Tricks
Sustain
You heal from your Eternal Hunger (Passive) (while below 50% of maximum health) as well as with Jaws of the Beast (Q). Use it for sustain and while low.
If you are not planning on going in or peeling, you can use Primal Howl (E) damage reduction to reduce poke damage.
Jaws of the Beast (Q)
You can hold Jaws of the Beast (Q) to stick to your target. During that, you get displacement immunity and you can follow them through dashes, blinks, Flashes and portals!
You can use Jaws of the Beast (Q) to close the gap between you and your target. Just Q minion, hold it and you will leap behind.
You can use Jaws of the Beast (Q) to escape - use it on minion or target further down to escape.
You appear behind your target if you hold Jaws of the Beast (Q) fully. Hold only halfway to stay next to them instead.
Spam Jaws of the Beast (Q) even if you are about to die - it has a slight delay and can sometimes still trigger mid-death animation for a 1-for-1 trade.
Blood Hunt (W)
Press Blood Hunt (W) before a fight to gain bonus attack speed against the first enemy in range, regardless of their HP.
You can use Blood Hunt (W) to detect enemies hiding in the bush or even invisible ones that try to sneak on you, your team or your Nexus!
Your team can't see your blood trail, so ping enemies to inform your team.
Primal Howl (E)
Press Primal Howl (E) in the middle of a fight and let it run out automatically unless you want to fear a key target.
Use Primal Howl (E) right before enemy crowd control hits to reduce incoming damage - it will still fear enemies even if you are CC’d.
Release Primal Howl (E) early to fear enemies into your team or to cancel someone’s escape.
Infinite Duress (R)
You can keep and use Infinite Duress (R) for escape.
R gives you crowd control immunity during leap.
R leap distance scales with your movement speed.
After landing Infinite Duress (R), all enemies around your target are automatically feared if Primal Howl (E) is active.
Hover over the ulted target and hold Jaws of the Beast (Q) - when Infinite Duress (R) ends, you’ll follow any flash or dash the enemy makes.
Warwick combos
Primal Howl (E) + Infinite Duress (R) Combo - land R while E is active to fear surrounding enemies and reduce incoming damage.
Main combo: Blood Hunt (W) + Primal Howl (E) + optionally Flash + hold Jaws of the Beast (Q) + Primal Howl (E) + Infinite Duress (R) - locks target in CC for 2.5s and guarantees your R hit.
Riot
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.