Warwick vs Cassiopeia — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Warwick against Cassiopeia · 53.81% win rate over 210 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Winnable despite the lane — Cassiopeia owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Warwick's 2, yet the win rate favours Warwick: survive their windows and the game is yours. Warwick wins 53.81% of games vs Cassiopeia in top lane (210 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1WarwickLevel 1 is yours since your Q sustain beats Cassiopeia before her poison zone is online.
Level 2Even / skillLevel 2 is skill-based as she starts layering Q poison and you look to close range.
Level 3WarwickLevel 3 favours you because you can still walk her down before W grounding is impactful.
Levels 4-5CassiopeiaLevels 4-5 flip to Cassiopeia — W Miasma grounds your dash and her poison out-DPSes you.
Level 6CassiopeiaLevel 6 is Cassiopeia's: R Petrifying Gaze face-stuns and cancels your Infinite Duress.
First itemCassiopeiaAt first item she leads with sustained poison DPS that melts you before you close.
Two+ itemsCassiopeiaWith 2+ items Cassiopeia dominates — grounding, R stun and poison keep you off her entirely.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1 is yours with Q sustain, and level 2 is skill-based, but from level 3 Cassiopeia's W grounding and Q poison start zoning you — close distance through the wave early before she can control the space.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Warwick vs Cassiopeia report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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