Talk:The Black Cleaver/@comment-1120494-20121209203316/@comment-142.204.74.247-20121210151525

lol wut? Less efficient? Dude, look at all the things you get for the new black cleaver. HP, damage, CDR, flat armor pen, and percent based armor pen. You get 5 different good stats for an AD bruiser, and it gets strong late game.

The old black cleaver may have given slightly more AD and attack speed, while costing slightly less, but it only reduces a maximum of 45 armor. The new black cleaver penetrates about as much armor for less armored targets, while using their skills as well. Its only one more stack needed, and you don't need to just auto attack to get those stacks on too, so it accrues those stacks way faster. As for armor, it helps bruisers finally do something to tanks because before they would have to get last whisper to even register damage on slightly tanky enemies.