Black Cleaver

For the removed Masterwork item, see Obsidian Cleaver.

For the Wild Rift item, see Black Cleaver.

Black Cleaver edit
Stats
+45 attack damage
+30 ability haste
+350 health
Passive
Unique – Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack reduces the target's armor by 5%, up to 30% at 6 stacks.
Unique – 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.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Black Cleaver.
Recipe
+  +  +  850
Cost	3100
Sell	2170
ID	3071
Availability
SR
HA
Menu
Fighter Assassin Attack Damage On-Hit Effects 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 3100 ( 850)
		Caulfield's Warhammer 1100 ( 400) Long Sword 350 Long Sword 350
		Kindlegem 800 ( 400) Ruby Crystal 400
		Long Sword 350

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 45 attack damage =  1575
• 30 ability haste =  800
• 350 health =  933.33
• Total Gold Value =  3308.33

Gold efficiency

• Black Cleaver's base stats are 106.72% gold efficient.

Similar items

Last Whisper

Sterak's Gage

Titanic Hydra

Trinity Force

Wit's End

Notes

• Carve and Rage will also trigger on 0 physical damage dealt by basic attacks.
• Rage tracks the bonus movement speed from each enemy champion individually, and grants the currently highest value of them.
• Rage can grant the bonus movement speed from clones afflicted by Carve.
• Carve stacks will transfer to clones.
• Carve is not blocked by spell shield.
• Carve triggers on most cases of physical damage being dealt (including pets), such as Urgot's Purge and Garen's Judgment, and the stacks are applied for every tick of damage.
  • On-hit effects, which are different from on-hit abilities, do not apply an additional armor shred stack (excluding Recurve Bow and Runaan's Hurricane).
    • An intentional exception to this is Senna's Absolution's innate bonus damage on-hit; she generates 2 stacks of Carve with every attack to offset her low attack speed.
    • Note that the excluded on-hits will sometimes not apply the armor shred. If they're triggered by Guinsoo's Rageblade they will however always apply it. Runaan's Hurricane will also apply the shred to the main target since it deals them 0 physical damage on-hit.
• The very first instance of physical damage does not get the benefit of the armor reduction. The physical damage dealt is calculated first, and the debuff is applied after. This means the full benefit of the reduction is seen on the seventh hit, after all six stacks have been applied.
• Based on the effect, multiple instances of physical damage applied at the same will only apply one stack. ^(bug)
  • Zed's Razor Shurikens thrown by him and his Shadows and Illaoi's Tentacle attacks, only apply one stack.
  • Graves' Basic Attack, Xayah's Bladecaller and Kled's Pocket Pistol apply multiple stacks.

Strategy

• Black Cleaver is usually used on juggernauts ( Illaoi, Darius, Garen) because they can easily apply stacks and survive long enough to benefit from the penetration.
• Armor reduction and penetration effects stack, allowing an attacking character to benefit simultaneously from Black Cleaver's shred, penetration runes, other items such as Last Whisper, and champion abilities that circumvent armor.

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

Patch History

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.

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. Only available while Ornn is on your team.

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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