| Black Cleaver | |
|---|---|
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| Passive | |
| UNIQUE - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack inflicts 6% armor reduction, up to 30% at 5 stacks. | |
| UNIQUE - Fervor: Dealing physical damage grants you 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. | |
| Statistics | |
HP | 400 |
AD | 40 |
AH | 20 |
| Additional Information | |
| Limitations | Limited to 1 Fatality item. |
| Map Availability | ALL |
| Tier | Legendary |
| Item Code | 3071 |
| Recipe | |
 +  +  + 225  | |
| Total Cost: 3000 | |
| Sold For: 2100 | |
| ExternalLinks | |
| Game Info Wiki | wiki.leagueoflegends.com |
Notes[]
- Both passives trigger on both basic attacks and on any abilities that deals physical damage.
- Physical damage over time abilities will apply one stack on every tick.
- On-hit effects, which is different from on-hit abilities, do not apply an additional armor shred stack.
- The armor reduction stacks from The Black Cleaver apply only to enemy champions. They will not affect minions, neutral monsters or structures such as turrets and inhibitors.
- Pets that deal physical damage will apply stacks, even if they don't apply on-hit effects or spell effects.
- The very first instance of physical damage does not get the benefit of the armor reduction. The physical damage dealt is calculated first, and the debuff is applied after. This means the full benefit of the reduction is seen on the seventh hit, after all six stacks have been applied.
- Armor reduction and penetration effects stack.
- Multiple instances of physical damage applied at the same time will only apply one stack.
Ornn can upgrade this Item to a Mastwerwok Item:
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HP: 400 (+125) with a total of 525
AD: 40 (+9.52) with a total of 49.52- AH: 20 (+10.67) with a total of 30.67
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Patch History[]
- Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 Gold ⇒ Phage + Kindlegem + Pickaxe + 225 Gold
- Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 40
We're softening some of Black Cleaver's stacking rules, which will make the item much stronger for some champions who used to be able to apply two stacks at once.
- Black Cleaver no longer prevents champions from applying two stacks for basic attacks and abilities that apply after on-hit effects (e.g. Senna).
We want Black Cleaver to be a core component of most fighter builds. One key tenet of fighter combat patterns is target agnosticism, which is one factor that differentiates them from assassins. Not only do we like when they're good at hitting the front line, we also want them to be a little bit cooperative, which allows some of their combat power to come from team fighting and not just side lane 1v1s.
- Armor Reduction: 5% ⇒ 6%
- Max Armor Reduction: 25% ⇒ 30%
Black Cleaver is currently a bit underwhelming compared to other fighter itemization options in the game. And while we don't think it needs to be the default fighter item (League of Cleavers anyone?), we want to make sure it still feels worth picking up for the champions that appreciate it. To that end, we're giving Black Cleaver quite a few minor buffs that should make the item feel better for its users.
- Item Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 gold ⇒ Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 gold
- Carve Armor Reduction per Stack: 4% ⇒ 5%
- Maximum Carve Stacks: 6 ⇒ 5
- Maximum Armor Reduction: 24% ⇒ 25%
- Fervor Bonus Movement Speed: 20 (melee) / 10 (ranged) ⇒ 20 for all champions
- Fervor Proc Conditions: On dealing Physical Damage that bypasses shields/invulnerability ⇒ All physical damage, even if mitigated.
- Total Cost: 3100 ⇒ 3000 gold
- Item Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 850 Gold ⇒ Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 Gold
- Health: 400 (unchanged)
- Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 55
- Ability Haste: 30 ⇒ 20
- Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion reduces their armor by 5%, stacking up to 6 times. ⇒ Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion reduces their armor by 4%, stacking up to 6 times.
- Passive - Rage: Attacking a unit grants 20 Move Speed for 2 seconds. (Note: there is no longer a movement speed correlation between Rage and the number of Carve stacks acquired.)
- Attack Damage: 45 ⇒ 50
- Health: 350 ⇒ 400
Even with our changes to Black Cleaver’s functionality in patch 11.5, it hasn’t been a popular pick this season. We’re sharpening one of its unique points to better compete with its alternatives.
Adjusting Black Cleaver to be better suited for longer fights while packing it with more punch for its cost.
Patch 10.23
Now deals missing health damage against fully stacked targets. No longer grants movement speed on-hit.
Black Cleaver did many things decently well, but we want it to do fewer things better. Moved its movement-speed-granting effects to more movement based items and replaced with an execution effect on targets you've fully shredded.
Base Stats
Effects
We've removed "The" from some item names and descriptions!
- Black Cleaver
- Black Spear
- Bloodthirster
- Dark Seal
- Hex Core mk1 and mk2
- Lightbringer
- Obsidian Cleaver
v7.4
Builds out of Kindlegem instead of Caulfield’s Warhammer. Health up, attack damage down.
While The Black Cleaver is meant for fighters like Darius and skirmishers like Fiora, it packs so much offensive power that glass cannon champs are buying into it as well. We’re shaking up Cleaver’s build path and stat offerings to better align with the extended fights its intended users thrive in. Swapping Caulfield’s Warhammer for a Kindlegem works out well for champs who need to live long enough to cycle through several rounds of spellcasts, versus champs who want to down their target in one go.
Fun fact: this is basically the version of Black Cleaver we had between patches 5.8 to 5.22, with a few gold numbers moved around. Though the change to Warhammer made sense in the 2016 pre-season, a lot’s changed about the game since then and the old version’s a better fit for where we are today.
v6.9
Cost reduced. -5 AD.
For those keeping up with recent top lane trends, builds have skewed toward the tankier end for the majority of 2016. Black Cleaver is a natural ‘release valve’ to help counter these champions, providing necessary shred and sticking to run down even the beefiest defenders. When we noticed that its primary users (Renekton, Gnar, Riven to namfew) weren’t in the best spot performance wise, it made sense to bring the item that binds them together down to the price-points of other important spikes.
v5.8
New build path, much more health, much, much more armor shred stacking, but no more flat armor penetration. More cleaver-y, if that makes sense.
- "We're going to be blunt - when The Black Cleaver's good, it's good at many things: blowing up squishies via flat armor penetration and busting down tanks with its stacking armor shred. Because of this, we've had to tune the item accordingly, making it pretty mediocre at both of its aforementioned jobs.
- No longer!
- Well, sort of. One of our goals with a revisit to The Black Cleaver was to basically choose one of those paths and go sprinting down it. There are already a bevy of options when it comes to blowing up squishies, so tank busting became the name of the game for the new Black Cleaver. The design here should make sense for anyone who wants sustained, tank busting combat patterns, so we won't dwell too much on that. Go try it out! "
- [NEW] RECIPE :
The Brutalizer + Ruby Crystal + 1263 gold⇒ Phage + Kindlegem + 825 gold - TOTAL COST : 3000 gold (unchanged). In case you couldn't do the math.
- [REMOVED] ARMOR PENETRATION :
10⇒ 0 - HEALTH :
200⇒ 400 - ATTACK DAMAGE :
50⇒ 40 - COOLDOWN REDUCTION :
10%⇒ 20% - ARMOR SHRED DURATION :
4 seconds⇒ 6 seconds - ARMOR SHRED MAXIMUM STACKS :
5⇒ 6 - DAMAGE :
46⇒ 52 - [NEW] UNIQUE PASSIVE : Rage - Dealing physical damage grants 20 movement speed for 2 seconds. Killing any unit or receiving an assist on a champion that has any amount of Black Cleaver armor shred grants 60 movement speed for 2 seconds instead.
- Can no longer apply more than one stack of Armor Shred in a single basic attack
- Health reduced to 200 from 300
- Maximum stacks increased to 5 from 4
- Armor reduction per stack reduced to 5% from 6%
- Fixed a bug where spells were applying more reduction than intended
- Armor Reduction per stack reduced to 6.25% from 7.5% (Maximum reduction is now 25% from 30%)
- Flat Armor Penetration reduced to 10 from 15 and is now UNIQUE
- Now builds from The Brutalizer and Ruby Crystal
- Now grants +250 Health, +10% Cooldown Reduction, and +15 Armor Penetration
- No longer grants Attack Speed
- Attack Damage reduced from 55 to 50
- Passive changed to "Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion reduces their Armor by 7.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 4 times." and is no longer Unique
- Cost increased from 2,865 (795) to 3,000 (1,188)
- No longer shreads
Dragon's or 
Baron Nashor's armor
- Now appears in the attack speed tab
- Damage reduced to 55 from 75
- Now adds 30% increased attack speed
- Unique passive - Now shreads 15 armor per stack from 12, but has a maximum of 3 stacks from 5
- Damage reduced from 80 to 75
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