There are only a few champions left in League of Legends who desperately need visual updates and reworks: Urgot, Galio and the big-bad wolf himself, Warwick. After what feels like years of waiting, we are finally getting a new version of the simplest jungler in the game. A story-filled blog post on the League site, called “ Engineering The Nightmare,” teases an entirely new Warwick, one that’s augmented far beyond a simple werewolf.
In the story, Singed takes a man who has done bad things in his life and experiments on him. The man screams and pleads for the alchemist of Zaun to stop the pain, but Singed just works harder. After a mechanical hand pops out of the test subject, blood vessels and ligaments are ripped and reattached and all sorts of terrible experiments take place. Finally, it looks like the subject has died. Singed dumps him outside, only to come back to his lab the next day and see that it’s trashed.
According to the lab schematics in the story, Warwick is now a half-mechanical monster created by metallurgy with retractable claws, a hex-tech augment in his spine and tubes and spikes to inflict massive amounts of pain. Compared to other revamped champions, Warwick is going to have the most drastic change from his old self. No longer a victim of alchemy of his own doing, now he is a puppet in Singed’s and Zaun’s plans.
Expect more updates on Warwick and his rework in the coming weeks.
