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]]. Can only be forged by Ornn. 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 worth 1100 (150 health and 20 attack damage).

Similar items

Frozen Mallet

Last Whisper

Sterak's Gage

Titanic Hydra

Trinity Force

Wit's End

Notes

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• Both passives trigger on both basic attacks and on any abilities that deals physical damage (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.
• 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

• The 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. Other than the shred effect they can also very nicely benefit from the bonus movement per hit which allows them to stick to their targets.
• 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

Old Icon

The Black Cleaver

Trivia

• The Cleave icon is also used in Jarvan IV's Dragon Strike.

Patch History

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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