Black Cleaver

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Recipe
Cost	3000g (825g)
Sell	2100g
Code	3071

The Black Cleaver is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Black Cleaver 3000 ( 825)
		Phage 1325 ( 565) Ruby Crystal 400 Long Sword 360
		Kindlegem 850 ( 450) Ruby Crystal 400

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 400 health = 1068
• 40 attack damage = 1440
• 20% cooldown reduction = 634
  • Total Gold Value = 3140

Gold efficiency

• The base stats are 104.67% gold efficient, without its two passives.

Recommended champions

• Black Cleaver is listed as an essential item on: Garen.
• Black Cleaver is listed as an offensive item on: Hecarim, Jarvan IV, Jayce, Kha'Zix, Lee Sin, Olaf (Crystal Scar, Twisted Treeline), Pantheon, Rek'Sai, Renekton, Riven, Sion, Urgot, Vi, Wukong, Xin Zhao.

Similar items

Furor

Last Whisper

Wit's End

Notes

• Both passives trigger not only on auto-attacks but on any effect that deals physical damage, such as Urgot's Acid Hunter, 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 structures such as turrets and inhibitors, minions, or neutral monsters.
• Physical damage-over-time abilities 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.
• Last Whisper provides more raw percent-based armor piercing than the full six  Black Cleaver stacks (35% to 30%, respectively), but The Black Cleaver's armor shred benefits an entire team, while Last Whisper's only augments its wielder's damage.
• 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.
• In conjunction with The Black Cleaver at 6 stacks:
  • Jarvan IV's Dragon Strike reduces the armor of all enemies hit by 37 / 39.8 / 42.6 / 45.4 / 48.2% for 3 seconds.
  • Jayce's Transform: Mercury Cannon reduces the armor and magic resistance of the enemy hit by his first attack after cast, by 37 / 40.5 / 44 / 47.5% for 5 seconds.
  • Kayle's Holy Fervor reduces the armor of enemies hit by her autoattacks for 5 seconds per stack. This debuff stacks up to 5 times for a combined percentual armor penetration of (Max. 40.5%).
  • Renekton's Slice and Dice, when empowered by having more than 50 Fury, Dice will reduce the armor of all enemies hit by 40.5 / 44 / 47.5 / 51 / 54.5% for 4 seconds.
  • Sion's Roar of the Slayer reduces the armor of the target hit by 20% for 2.5 seconds.
  • Trundle's Subjugate reduces the armor of his target by 44% to 58% in the next 4 seconds (the effect does not apply any stacks). The armor reduction lasts for another 4 seconds after the drain completes.
  • Urgot's Noxian Corrosive Charge reduces the armor of all enemies hit by 37 / 40.5 / 44 / 47.5 / 51% for 5 seconds.
  • Vi's Denting Blows reduces the target's armor by 44% for 4 seconds after every third consecutive hit.
  • Wukong's Crushing Blow reduces the armor of the target hit by 38.4 for 3 seconds.
  • Xin Zhao's Challenge reduces the armor of targets hit by his basic attacks or Audacious Charge by 40.5% for 3 seconds. Only one target may be challenged at a given time.

Patch History

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 1263g from 1188g (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

• Recipe: The Brutalizer + Ruby Crystal
• Item cost: 3000
• Combine cost: 1188
• +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 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:

• Recipe changed: Now requires B. F. Sword + Dagger + 795g
  • Old recipe: B. F. Sword + Long Sword + 800g
  • 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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