Talk:VPBE/@comment-3308937-20150415074419

Riot Gizmo on Black Cleaver changes:

"There are a number of reasons for this, so I'll just try to ramble on it for a little bit and hopefully hit all the major points. Flat penetration is a stat that works best versus low armor targets, and thus, ends up primarily being bought on assassins and diving fighters who access the opposing squishies easily. When Black Cleaver builds out of Brutalizer and keeps the flat pen, it creates a weird item that can't make up it's mind about whether it's supposed to be for shredding tanks or for blowing up squishies and honestly has just always ended up being good at both because well, the item just naturally covers all your bases in terms of opposing armor values. Because of this, we've had to historically undertune the item and it's just left it in a somewhat unsustainable spot. So with this new version, we're trying to really double down on the tank busting aspects of it, and in order to do so, the flat pen just had to go. For whatever it's worth, we also toyed with the idea of still building out of Brutalizer and just losing the flat pen on upgrade, but ultimately, that didn't feel clean and the Phage stat line and unique passive felt like a natural fit for the types of characters we wanted to enable with this item (heavy midline AD fighters like Darius, Garen, Olaf, etc)."