Talk:The Black Cleaver/@comment-4659726-20121212195745/@comment-3323227-20121213060349

Riot is hitting BC pretty hard kinda like you suggested but I don't think it is necessary. My approach is simple and allows the item to do what it was intended to do without the abuse cases.

My suggested Change to Black Cleaver:

+250 health +50 attack damage

Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion reduces their armor by 3.75%. Abilities apply 2 stacks and basic attacks apply 1. Lasts for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 8 times.

Unique Passive: +10% cooldown reduction +15 armor penetration There simple as that.

Stacking the item allows you to get off the passive faster but becomes extremely cost inefficient to stack since you will not get additional armor pen or CDR.

The addition of it requiring 8 stacks for the same effect as before but allowing physical damage abilities to apply 2 makes it more effective on AD casters than AD carries.

These are the only changes I think are unnecessary.

Lastly I think RIOT should undo the defense stat nerfs.

Increasing the costs of all defensive stats and reducing the amount each item gives while also making penetration stack against it better was too much. The pen change is fine so long as the defense stats remained the same as they were in season 2.