Talk:Black Cleaver/@comment-5211662-20150528074722

Most of time, I buy this item not for the armor shred, but for the health and cooldown reduction. If I were to just buy an armor shred/penetration item, Last Whisper would be a much better option. However, the enormous amount of health and CDR from this item makes it a very worthy alternative... especially since I no longer have to buy Frozen Heart on manaless champions just to have an 20% cooldown reduction item (and thus, have to waste gold on mana). Not to mention the Phage passive. These are the actual reasons to buy the new Black Cleaver, on my opinion, the armor shred is just a bonus.