diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index 6f13554d2..15fdbd4b8 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -290,6 +290,21 @@ class Router:
         }
         """
         ### ROUTING SETUP ###
+        self.routing_strategy_init(
+            routing_strategy=routing_strategy,
+            routing_strategy_args=routing_strategy_args,
+        )
+        ## COOLDOWNS ##
+        if isinstance(litellm.failure_callback, list):
+            litellm.failure_callback.append(self.deployment_callback_on_failure)
+        else:
+            litellm.failure_callback = [self.deployment_callback_on_failure]
+        print(  # noqa
+            f"Intialized router with Routing strategy: {self.routing_strategy}\n\nRouting fallbacks: {self.fallbacks}\n\nRouting context window fallbacks: {self.context_window_fallbacks}\n\nRouter Redis Caching={self.cache.redis_cache}"
+        )  # noqa
+        self.routing_strategy_args = routing_strategy_args
+
+    def routing_strategy_init(self, routing_strategy: str, routing_strategy_args: dict):
         if routing_strategy == "least-busy":
             self.leastbusy_logger = LeastBusyLoggingHandler(
                 router_cache=self.cache, model_list=self.model_list
@@ -321,15 +336,6 @@ class Router:
             )
             if isinstance(litellm.callbacks, list):
                 litellm.callbacks.append(self.lowestlatency_logger)  # type: ignore
-        ## COOLDOWNS ##
-        if isinstance(litellm.failure_callback, list):
-            litellm.failure_callback.append(self.deployment_callback_on_failure)
-        else:
-            litellm.failure_callback = [self.deployment_callback_on_failure]
-        print(  # noqa
-            f"Intialized router with Routing strategy: {self.routing_strategy}\n\nRouting fallbacks: {self.fallbacks}\n\nRouting context window fallbacks: {self.context_window_fallbacks}\n\nRouter Redis Caching={self.cache.redis_cache}"
-        )  # noqa
-        self.routing_strategy_args = routing_strategy_args
 
     def print_deployment(self, deployment: dict):
         """
@@ -2659,6 +2665,13 @@ class Router:
                     _casted_value = int(kwargs[var])
                     setattr(self, var, _casted_value)
                 else:
+                    if var == "routing_strategy":
+                        self.routing_strategy_init(
+                            routing_strategy=kwargs[var],
+                            routing_strategy_args=kwargs.get(
+                                "routing_strategy_args", {}
+                            ),
+                        )
                     setattr(self, var, kwargs[var])
             else:
                 verbose_router_logger.debug("Setting {} is not allowed".format(var))