Black Cleaver

• The Black Cleaver
• The Obsidian Cleaver

		"You belong in a museum!" This article or section may contain obsolete information, but exists here for historical purposes.

Template:Item data The Black CleaverThe Black Cleaver was an advanced item in League of Legends for [[File:-Template-Item data The Black Cleaver OriginalSquare.png|20xpx|border|link=Template:Item data The Black Cleaver/LoL|Template:Item data The Black Cleaver]] [[Template:Item data The Black Cleaver/LoL|Template:Item data The Black Cleaver]].

Recipe

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Cost Analysis

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Gold efficiency

• The Black Cleaver's is 100% gold efficient without its two passives.

		"You belong in a museum!" This article or section may contain obsolete information, but exists here for historical purposes.

Template:Item data The Obsidian CleaverThe Obsidian Cleaver was an advanced item in League of Legends for [[File:-Template-Item data The Obsidian Cleaver OriginalSquare.png|20xpx|border|link=Template:Item data The Obsidian Cleaver/LoL|Template:Item data The Obsidian Cleaver]] [[Template:Item data The Obsidian Cleaver/LoL|Template:Item data The Obsidian Cleaver]]. Only available while Ornn is on your team. Limited to one Master Craftsman item.

Recipe

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Cost Analysis

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Gold efficiency

• The Obsidian Cleaver's is 136.67% gold efficient without its two passives.
• The raw stats gained from upgrading The Black Cleaver into The Obsidian Cleaver are 110% gold efficient (150 health and 20 attack damage for 1000).

Similar items

Frozen Mallet

Last Whisper

Sterak's Gage

Titanic Hydra

Trinity Force

Wit's End

Notes

Black Cleaver's Rage.

• Both passives trigger on both basic attacks and on any abilities that deals physical damage, such as Urgot's Purge, Garen's Judgment and Pantheon's Heartseeker Strike.
• On-hit effects do not apply an additional armor shred stack.
  • Auto-attacks with Tiamat and Ravenous Hydra will apply stacks to nearby champions, but a champion attacked directly can't receive additional stacks.
• The armor reduction stacks from The Black Cleaver apply only to enemy champions. They will not affect minions, neutral monsters or structures such as turrets and inhibitors.
• Physical damage over time abilities, such as Darius' Hemorrhage, will apply one stack on every tick.
• Pets that deal physical damage will apply stacks, even if they don't apply on-hit effects or spell effects.
• 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.
• Armor reduction and penetration effects stack, allowing an attacking character to benefit simultaneously from  Black Cleaver shred, penetration runes, other items such as Last Whisper, and champion abilities that circumvent armor.
• When combined, The Black Cleaver and The Obsidian Cleaver will apply 2 stacks per instance of physical damage, instead of 1. This is because the unique passives are not named and they are not the same item. However, the two items share the same maximum stacks.
• Multiple instances of physical damage applied at the same time (e.g. Zed's Razor Shuriken with his shadow) will only apply one stack.

Strategy

• Building multiple Black Cleavers can be viable: with Transcendence and 40% CDR, The Black Cleaver grants 64 AD and 400 health, and is now worth:
  • 40 attack damage = 1400
  • 400 health = 1066.66
  • 20% cooldown reduction = 24 attack damage = 840
    • Total Gold Value = 3306.66
• In conjunction with The Black Cleaver at 6 stacks:
  • Kog'Maw's Caustic Spittle reduces the armor of the enemy it hits by 39.2 / 40.72 / 42.24 / 43.76 / 45.28% for 4 seconds.
  • Darius' Apprehend ignores enemy armor when combined with Black Cleaver by 27.8 / 31.6 / 35.4 / 39.2 / 43% for 6 seconds.
  • Garen's Judgment reduces the armor of enemy champions by 43% after they get hit by it four times.
  • Jarvan IV's Dragon Strike reduces the armor of all enemies hit by 31.6 / 34.64 / 37.68 / 40.72 / 43.76% for 3 seconds.
  • Jayce's Transform Mercury Cannon reduces the armor of the enemy hit by his first attack after cast, by % for 5 seconds.
  • Kayle's Holy Fervor reduces the armor of enemies hit by her autoattacks by % for 5 seconds.
  • Renekton's Dice, when empowered by having more than 50 Fury, Dice will reduce the armor of all enemies hit by 35.4 / 39.2 / 43 / 46.8 / 50.6% for 4 seconds.
  • Sion's Roar of the Slayer reduces the armor of the target hit by 39.2% for 2.5 seconds.
  • Trundle's Subjugate reduces the armor of his target by 39.2% to 54.4% in the next 4 seconds (the effect does not apply any stacks). The armor reduction lasts for another 4 seconds after the drain completes.
  • Vi's Denting Blows reduces the target's armor by 39.2% for 4 seconds after every third consecutive hit.
  • Wukong's Crushing Blow reduces the armor of the target hit by 31.6 / 35.4 / 39.2 / 43 / 46.8% for 3 seconds.

Old Icon

The Black Cleaver

Trivia

Patch History

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.

V7.9

• 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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