Talk:Warwick/@comment-24823977-20141007181455/@comment-7760473-20141008124453

I was sharing my long time experience with Warwick, that's all.

The damage from BotRK is lower than you immagine, the life shredding is on actual health, not maximum, that means the lower it gets, the worse your damage is, also your main targets, carries AD and AP, usually have low health. ADCs rarely go over 2000hp, but at 60-70% they'll build a Guardian Angel as defensive item, that means at 110-130 armor and 2000hp they'll get about 70 damage from your first hit of BotRK, which looks a lot, but if you think how that value goes down very fast and how much damage less you deal with your whole kit without magic penetration giving up at same time a very useful tank item, then I think what to choose is easy.

Don't take me wrong, I'm not saying BotRK is a bad item at all, I like it, on an ADC or a bruiser attacking an enemy bruiser/tank with 3.5k+ hp is just amazing, but if you consider the kind of targets you have to focus on with Warwick, then it becomes much less useful and too expensive. You want and have to survive enemy focus.

About the slow, if the enemy team has a Thresh, a Leona, a Braum or even a Soraka, BotRK's active means nothing, you have no chance to make a good use of it after Infinite Duress, instead if you get Frozen Mallet, Mercury's Tread and Ghost, you need only to land a single AA to screw their carry, which is not that hard in a teamfight. Also don't understimate the defensive power when it comes to cover your carries as well. Mallet simply makes you tankier and versatile for your team.

Last note and I promise I'm done: going for Frozen Mallet gives you enough health to focus on Frozen Heart over Randuin's Omen or Sunfire Cape, with Spirit Visage you get a sweet 30% CDR, 40% using an elisir, it feels so good on Warwick and no more mana troubles still being annoying huge, just try.