Black Cleaver

For the removed Masterwork item, see Obsidian Cleaver.

Black Cleaver edit
Stats
+40 attack damage
+20 ability haste
+400 health
+40 (+9.52) attack damage
+20 (+10.67) ability haste
+400 (+125) health
+49.52 attack damage
+30.67 ability haste
+525 health
Passive
Unique – Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack inflicts 6% armor reduction, up to 30% at 5 stacks.
Unique – Fervor: Dealing physical damage grants you 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Fatality item.
Recipe
+  +  +  225
Cost	3000
Sell	2100
ID	3071
Availability
SR 5v5
SR 5v5
HA ARAM
HA ARAM
Nexus Blitz
Nexus Blitz
Arena
Arena
Menu
Fighter Assassin Attack Damage Armor Penetration Health & Regeneration Ability Haste Movement
Keywords
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Black Cleaver is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Black Cleaver 3000 ( 225)
		Phage 1100 ( 350) Ruby Crystal 400 Long Sword 350
		Kindlegem 800 ( 150) Ruby Crystal 400 Glowing Mote 250
		Pickaxe 875

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 40 attack damage =  1400
• 20 ability haste =  1000
• 400 health =  1066.67
• Total Gold Value =  3466.67

Fervor Gold Value

• 20 movement speed = 240
  • Total Gold Value = 3706.67

Gold efficiency

• Black Cleaver's base stats are 115.56% gold efficient.
• While Fervor is active, Black Cleaver becomes 123.56% gold efficient.

Similar items

Lord Dominik's Regards

Mortal Reminder

Serylda's Grudge

Spear of Shojin

Sterak's Gage

Titanic Hydra

Trinity Force

Sundered Sky

Hullbreaker

Stridebreaker

Experimental Hexplate

Overlord's Bloodmail

Notes

• Carve will also trigger on 0 physical damage dealt by basic attacks.
• Fervor can grant the bonus movement speed from clones.
• Carve stacks will transfer to clones.
• Carve by itself is not blocked by spell shield.
• Carve triggers on most cases of physical damage being dealt, including pets and effects that apply multiple instances of the damage type.
  • On-hit effects, which are different from on-hit abilities, do not apply an additional stack of Carve.
    • The only exception is Runaan's Hurricane.
    • Note that the item exclusions will sometimes not apply the Carve stack. However, if they are triggered by Guinsoo's Rageblade, then they will always apply it. Runaan's Hurricane will also apply an additional stack of Carve to the primary target because it deals them 0 physical damage on-hit.
• The first instance of physical damage dealt does not benefit from Carve's armor reduction.
  • The damage dealt is calculated first, and then the armor reduction debuff is applied afterwards.
  • This means that every instance of physical damage dealt benefits only from the armor reduction of the previous stacks.
• Some effects where multiple instances of physical damage are applied at the same may only apply one Carve stack, due to their implementation.^(note) Some examples are provided below:
  • Zed's Razor Shurikens thrown by him and his Shadows and Illaoi's Tentacle attacks, only apply one stack.
    • Eclipse's Ever Rising Moon will not apply a Carve stack if triggered in these ways.
  • Graves' Basic Attack, Xayah's Bladecaller and Kled's Pocket Pistol apply a stack for each instance of damage.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• Attack damage changed to 40.
• Health changed to 350.

Old icons

1st version

2nd version

Trivia

1/2

• The icons to the right feature the old indicator used to represent the target's armor was reduced.
• In the now-removed official League of Legends forums, the first icon of Black Cleaver was used to represent the "Item Discussion" section.
• Black Cleaver and Obsidian Cleaver are among a number of items that had the word "The" removed from their names in patch V9.19. They were previously known as The Black Cleaver and The Obsidan Cleaver respectively.
• The icon of Black Cleaver is reused for the Teamfight Tactics item Berserker's Axe.

Media

Armor Reduced indicator

Maximum Stacks indicator

Sound Effects

Passive Maximum Stacks

• ▶️   Passive SFX
• ▶️   Passive SFX
• ▶️   Passive SFX

Patch History

V14.19

• New Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Pickaxe + 225 = 3000.
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 = 3000.
• Attack damage reduced to 40 from 55.

V14.16

• Removed: No longer has a 0.01-second internal delay between applying stacks.

V14.11

• Can no longer be upgraded to Obsidian Cleaver.

V14.10

• Carve armor reduction per stack increased to 6% from 5%.
  • Carve maximum armor reduction increased to 30% from 25%.

V14.4

• New Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 = 3000.
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 = 3000.
• Carve armor reduction per stack increased to 5% from 4%.
• Carve maximum stacks reduced to 5 from 6.
• New Effect: Fervor can now trigger on mitigated damage.

V14.2

• New Unique Passive - Fervor: Dealing physical damage grants you 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
• Removed Unique Passive - Rage: Basic attacks on-hit grant ( 20 / 10) bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.

V14.1

• New:
  • Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 = 3000.
  • Stats: 400 health, 55 attack damage, 20 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack inflicts 4% armor reduction, up to 24% at 6 stacks.
  • Unique Passive - Rage: Basic attacks on-hit grant ( 20 / 10) bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
  • Limited to 1 Fatality item.
  • Ornn's Masterwork item: Obsidian Cleaver.
    • Stats: 600 health, 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 850 = 3100.
  • Stats: 400 health, 50 attack damage, 30 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack inflicts 5% armor reduction, up to 30% at 6 stacks.
  • Unique Passive - Rage: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion grants 3 bonus movement speed per stack of Carve on them for 2 seconds, up to 18.
  • Limited to 1 Black Cleaver.

V13.1b

• Attack damage increased to 50 from 45.
• Health increased to 400 from 350.

V12.14

• Bug Fix: Bonus damage tracker now properly takes into account damage absorbed by shields.

V12.13

• Now calculates and tracks the additional damage dealt due to applying Carve's armor reduction in the tooltip.

V12.8

• Bug Fix: Titanic Hydra's Cleave and certain other on-hit effects from items and Champion passives no longer apply an additional stack of Carve on basic attacks if Black Cleaver's effect was acquired later (in a higher buff slot) than the on-hit effect.

V12.3

• Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
• Ability haste increased to 30 from 25.
• Health reduced to 350 from 450.

V11.13

• Health increased to 450 from 400.
• Bonus movement speed per stack reduced to 3 from 5.
  • Maximum bonus movement speed reduced to 18 from 30.

V11.12

• Bug Fix: Now properly appears in the movement tab of the in-game shop.

V11.11

• Armor reduction per Carve stack increased to 5% from 4%.
  • Maximum armor reduction increased to 30% from 24%.

V11.5

• Total cost reduced to 3100 from 3300.
  • Combine cost reduced to 850 from 1050.
• Health increased to 400 from 300.
• New Unique Passive - Rage: Dealing physical damage to a champion grants 5 bonus movement speed per stack of Carve on them for 2 seconds, up to 30.
• Removed Unique Passive - Butcher: Basic attacks on-hit and abilities that deal physical damage against fully Shredded enemies deal bonus physical damage equal to 5% of their missing health. This is reduced to 2% of their missing health for damage over time effects, which may only deal the bonus damage every 0.5 seconds.
  • Butcher dealt default damage.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• New:
  • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 1050 = 3300.
  • Stats: 300 health, 40 attack damage, 25 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion reduces their armor by 4% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times for a maximum of 24%. Enemies with 6 stacks are Shredded.
  • Unique Passive - Butcher: Basic attacks (on-hit) and damaging abilities against fully Shredded enemies deal bonus physical damage equal to 5% of their missing health, reduced to 2% of their missing health for damage over time effects (0.5 second cooldown).
  • Limited to 1 Black Cleaver.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + 950 = 3000.
  • Stats: 400 health, 40 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.
  • Unique Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them,  reducing their  armor by 4% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times for a maximum of 24%.
  • Unique Passive - Rage: Dealing physical damage grants ( 20 / 10) movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant ( 60 / 30) movement speed for 2 seconds instead.
  • Ornn's Masterwork item: Obsidian Cleaver.
    • Stats: 550 health, 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.

V9.19

• Renamed Black Cleaver from The Black Cleaver.
• Obsidian Cleaver
  • Renamed Obsidian Cleaver from The Obsidian Cleaver.

V9.1

• The Obsidian Cleaver
  • Total cost reduced to 3000 from 4000.
    • Combine cost reduced to 0 from 1000.
  • Can now only be obtained if Ornn forges the item (for himself or for another ally).

V8.20

• Bug Fix: Now correctly stacks on decoys.

V7.17

• Added to recipe from The Obsidian Cleaver.
  • Recipe: The Black Cleaver + 1000 = 4000.
  • Stats: 550 health, 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.
  • Unique Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them, reducing their armor by 4% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times for a maximum of 24%.
  • Unique Passive - Rage: Dealing physical damage grants ( 20 / 10) movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant ( 60 / 30) movement speed for 2 seconds instead.
  • Only available while Ornn is on your team. Limited to one Master Craftsman item.

V7.13

• Undocumented: An ability cannot add more than one stack in an instant.

V7.9

• Armor reduction per stack reduced to 4% from 5%.
  • Maximum armor reduction reduced to 24% from 30%.

V7.4

• New Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + 950 = 3000
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + 750 = 3100
• Health increased to 400 from 300.
• Attack damage reduced to 40 from 50.

V6.16

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where an enemy hit with multiple shells from Graves' basic attacks only applied a single stack of The Black Cleaver.

V6.9

• Total cost reduced to 3100 from 3500.
• Combine cost reduced to 750 from 1150.
• Attack damage reduced to 50 from 55.

V5.22

• New Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + 1150 = 3500.
  • Old Recipe: Kindlegem + Phage + 825 = 3000
• Attack damage increased to 55 from 40.
• Health reduced to 300 from 400.

V5.8

• New item icon.
• New recipe: Kindlegem + Phage + 825 = 3000
  • Old recipe: Ruby Crystal + The Brutalizer + 1263 = 3000
• Health increased to 400 from 200.
• Attack damage reduced to 40 from 50.
• Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 10%.
• No longer grants + 10 Armor Penetration.
• Revised Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them, reducing their armor by 5% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times.
  • The passive is now unique.
• New Unique Passive: Rage: Dealing physical damage grants 20 movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds instead. This movement speed is halved for ranged champions.

V4.3

• Combine cost increased to 1263 from 1188 (total cost remains the same due to Ruby Crystal's price being reduced).

V3.9

• Can no longer apply more than one stack of Armor Shred in a single basic attack.

V3.01

• Health reduced to 200 from 250.
• Maximum stacks increased to 5 from 4.
• Armor reduction per stack reduced to 5% from 6.25%.
• Fixed a bug where spells were applying more reduction than intended.

V1.0.0.153

• Armor reduction per stack reduced to 6.25% from 7.5% (Maximum reduction is now 25% from 30%).
• Flat armor penetration reduced to 10 from 15 and is now Unique.

V1.0.0.152 Rework

• New recipe: The Brutalizer + Ruby Crystal + 1188 = 3000.
• +250 health
• +50 attack damage
• +10% cooldown reduction
• +15 armor penetration
• Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion reduces their armor by 7.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 4 times.

V1.0.0.130

• No longer shreds Dragon and Baron Nashor's armor.

V1.0.0.109

• Fixed a bug where it didn't appear in the attack speed tab.

V1.0.0.108

• New recipe: B. F. Sword + Dagger + 795 = ???
  • Old recipe: B. F. Sword + Long Sword + 800 = ???
  • Damage reduced to 55 from 75.
  • Now adds 30% increased attack speed.
  • Unique passive: Now shreds 15 armor per stack from 12 but has a maximum of 3 stacks from 5.

May 15, 2009 Patch

• Attack damage reduced to 75 from 80.

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