Warwick
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Good (7.5/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Paid Relics
Warwick is a highly effective champion who scales rapidly through combat and spell damage. Players disagree about his signature relic, Cruel Experiments. Some consider it essential for his optimal spellslinger playstyle, while others argue the health reduction severely weakens his already fragile units. His base deck is widely considered weak, requiring significant constellation investment to reach his full potential.
Spellslinger
Accelerates his game plan by providing immediate board-wide buffs and Impact, synergizing with his need for rapid scaling.
Ensures consistent access to his discounted champion spell, which is the primary engine for his board control and damage.
Provides crucial spell damage amplification for his pings and grants Tough, which significantly improves his survivability against incidental damage.
Strategy
Warwick functions best as a spellcaster rather than a pure combat unit. This build focuses on repeatedly casting his discounted champion spell to control the board and scale his units' attack power rapidly before committing to a final, decisive strike.
Husk Swarm
Allows generated Husks to attack, turning them into active threats that scale rapidly with Warwick's inherent buffs.
Ensures Warwick absorbs essential keywords like Quick Attack, Fury, and Overwhelm from fallen units, including his own Husks.
Generates additional Husks upon securing kills, providing a continuous stream of stats and keywords for the board.
Strategy
This build transforms Warwick into an engine for keyword accumulation and board presence. By generating and sacrificing Husks, Warwick and his allies quickly build massive stats and acquire a diverse array of powerful keywords to overwhelm the opponent.
Aggressive Overwhelm
Provides the necessary Overwhelm keyword to the entire board, allowing Warwick to convert his massive attack scaling into direct Nexus damage.
Discounts Warwick's cost when Plunder is triggered, enabling a much faster deployment.
Triggers Plunder immediately at the start of the game, ensuring Packed Powder is always active for an early summon.
Strategy
Designed to close out games quickly, this setup compensates for Warwick's lack of innate Overwhelm. By deploying Warwick early and granting Overwhelm to his scaled units, this build bypasses enemy blockers to deliver lethal Nexus damage.
Accessible Caster
Amplifies the damage of all spells and skills, making his pings significantly more lethal.
Provides a steady stream of fleeting champion spells every round for continuous board control and scaling.
Allows Warwick to scale his own stats rapidly whenever he takes incidental damage during combat.
Strategy
A highly effective setup for newer accounts utilizing only rare relics. This build mimics his premium spellslinger playstyle by generating constant champion spells and amplifying their damage, while using combat damage to scale Warwick into a massive threat.
Other Relic Options
Creates an incredibly powerful loop at 6-stars, leveraging his built-in healing to trigger multiple rallies and end games in a single turn.
Highly effective for duplicating key followers like Chempunk Shredder, maintaining a persistent board presence that scales with his powers.
Synergizes with his frequent damage instances to plant numerous puffcaps, though battles often end before the traps become lethal.
Provides valuable removal and synergizes with his attack-scaling mechanics, allowing for efficient board clears.
Constellation
Warwick's constellation path provides massive scaling potential, but his base deck is notably weak, making these upgrades mandatory for higher-difficulty adventures. The Shadow Isles regeneration node is particularly valuable for sustaining his aggressive playstyle.
Eternal Hunger
Allies Have +1|+0 for every 7 times you've dealt damage this game.
Primal Howl
+1 Starting Mana. Round Start: Create a Blood Hunt, or if you already have one, reduce its cost by 1.
Eternal Hunger II
Allies Have +1|+0 for every 5 times you've dealt damage this game.Review
Provides necessary early-game ramping and creates viable targets for Warwick's buffs, establishing a baseline board presence.
Wounded Prey
When an enemy with 2+ Health is summoned deal 1 to it.Review
This upgrade is highly inefficient. The damage instances do not stack to eliminate units with 2 Health, as the ability checks the target's health after each individual ping, severely limiting its utility.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Eternal Hunger III
Allies Have +1|+0 for every 3 times you've dealt damage this game. When an ally kills a unit, heal it fully and grant it +0|+3 and ImpactReview
Delivers a massive power spike by accelerating his attack buffs and providing full healing upon securing kills. This transforms him into a highly resilient threat, though the mechanics function primarily as a generic stat increase rather than a unique thematic enhancement.
Gameplay Tips
- Embrace the Spellslinger Role
Despite his appearance as a melee brawler, Warwick excels when played as a spellcaster. Prioritize drafting spells and powers that deal direct damage to accelerate his scaling and control the board before committing to a final attack.
- Leverage the Perfection Power
The 'Perfection' adventure power sets all skill and spell damage to a minimum of 4. This creates a devastating synergy with Warwick's inherent low-damage pings, allowing him to effortlessly clear even the most challenging enemy boards.
- Avoid Stat-Normalizing Mutators
Warwick relies heavily on accumulating stats over the course of a game. Avoid adventures or nodes with the 'Small Stuff' mutator (which sets summoned units to 1/1), as this will instantly erase all of his hard-earned buffs.
- Strategic Self-Harm
Warwick's champion spell, Blood Hunt, can uniquely target your own Nexus. This provides a controlled method to intentionally lower your health, which is highly useful for completing specific quests that require winning a game at 3 Health or less.