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Cost Analysis

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Gold efficiency


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Notes

  • Both passives trigger not only on auto-attacks but on any effect that deals physical damage, such as Urgot's Urgot's Acid Hunter Acid Hunter, Garen's Garen's Judgment Judgment, Darius' Darius' Hemorrhage Hemorrhage and Pantheon's Pantheon's Heartseeker Strike Heartseeker Strike.
  • On-hit effects do not apply an additional armor shred stack.
    • Auto-attacks with Tiamat Tiamat and Ravenous Hydra 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 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 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 Black Cleaver shred, penetration runes, other items such as Last Whisper Last Whisper, and champion abilities that circumvent armor.
  • In conjunction with The Black Cleaver The Black Cleaver at 6 stacks:
    • Jarvan IV's Jarvan IV's Dragon Strike Dragon Strike reduces the armor of all enemies hit by 37 / 39.8 / 42.6 / 45.4 / 48.2% for 3 seconds.
    • Jayce's Jayce's Transform: Mercury Cannon 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 Kayle's Holy Fervor 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 Renekton's Slice and Dice 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 Sion's Roar of the Slayer Roar of the Slayer reduces the armor of the target hit by 20% for 2.5 seconds.
    • Trundle's Trundle's Subjugate 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 Urgot's Noxian Corrosive Charge Noxian Corrosive Charge reduces the armor of all enemies hit by 38.4 / 39.8 / 41.2 / 42.6 / 44% for 5 seconds.
    • Vi's Vi's Denting Blows Denting Blows reduces the target's armor by 44% for 4 seconds after every third consecutive hit.
    • Wukong's Wukong's Crushing Blow Crushing Blow reduces the armor of the target hit by 37 / 40.5 / 44 / 47.5 / 51% for 3 seconds.
    • Xin Zhao's Xin Zhao's Challenge Challenge reduces the armor of targets hit by his basic attacks or Audacious Charge Audacious Charge by 40.5% for 3 seconds. Only one target may be challenged at a given time.

Patch History

V6.16
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where an enemy hit with multiple shells from Graves' Graves' basic attacks only applied a single stack of The Black Cleaver.
V6.9
  • Total cost reduced to 3100 Gold 3100 from 3500 Gold 3500.
  • Combine cost reduced to 750 Gold 750 from 1150 Gold 1150.
  • Attack damage reduced to 50 from 55.
V5.22
V5.8
  • New item icon.
  • New recipe: Kindlegem Kindlegem + Phage Phage + 825 Gold 825 = 3000 Gold 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 Gold 1263 from 1188 Gold 1188 (total cost remains the same due to Ruby Crystal's 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 The Brutalizer + Ruby Crystal Ruby Crystal + 1188 Gold 1188 = 3000 Gold 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
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 B. F. Sword + Dagger Dagger + 795 Gold 795 = ??? Gold ???
    • Old recipe: B. F B. F. Sword + Long Sword Long Sword + 800 Gold 800 = ??? Gold ???
    • 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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