Talk:The Black Cleaver/@comment-46.61.90.209-20121128212731/@comment-5266525-20121204124440

There's a problem when an item is ludicrously effective at low-level play and near-useless at high-level play, as this apparently was. They've given entire reworks to champions who were too difficult to balance for all skill levels (eg. Xin, Eve) so it makes sense they'd remake this.

@5.83.71.124 - Bruisers already have so many options as it is. If they did your suggestion, AD casters would still yet waste their gold on useless attack speed and the end result is they're still left in the dust. The Black Cleaver was already an extremely polarizing item because it was good at low levels and bad at high ones. It's no wonder they reworked the item.