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Black Cleaver (League of Legends)Black Cleaver (League of Legends)
Black Cleaver (Wild Rift)Black Cleaver (Wild Rift)

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

Recipe

Black Cleaver item
Black Cleaver
3000 Gold 3000 (400 Gold 400)
Phage item
1100 Gold 1100 (350 Gold 350)

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

Fervor Gold Value

Gold efficiency

  • Black Cleaver's Black Cleaver's base stats are 133.06% gold efficient.
  • While Fervor is active, Black Cleaver Black Cleaver becomes 141.06% gold efficient.

Obsidian Cleaver is a legendary item in League of Legends icon League of Legends. Can only be forged by Ornn Ornn.

Recipe

Obsidian Cleaver item
3000 Gold 3000 (Special)
Black Cleaver item
Black Cleaver
3000 Gold 3000 (400 Gold 400)
Phage item
1100 Gold 1100 (350 Gold 350)

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

Gold efficiency

Similar items

Notes

  • Carve will also trigger on 0 physical damage dealt by basic attacks.
  • Fervor can grant the bonus movement speed from Command Hallucinate clones.
  • Carve stacks will transfer to Command Hallucinate clones.
  • Carve by itself is not blocked by Spell Shield spell shield.
  • Carve triggers on most cases of physical damage being dealt, including pets and effects that apply multiple instances of the damage type.
    • On-hit effects, which are different from on-hit abilities, do not apply an additional stack of Carve.
      • The only exception is Runaan's Hurricane Runaan's Hurricane.
        • Note that the item exclusions will sometimes not apply the Carve stack. However, if they are triggered by Guinsoo's Rageblade Guinsoo's Rageblade, then they will always apply it. Runaan's Hurricane Runaan's Hurricane will also apply an additional stack of Carve to the primary target because it deals them 0 physical damage on-hit.
  • The first instance of physical damage dealt does not benefit from Carve's armor reduction.
    • The damage dealt is calculated first, and then the armor reduction debuff is applied afterwards.
    • This means that every instance of physical damage dealt benefits only from the armor reduction of the previous stacks.
  • Based on the effect, multiple instances of physical damage applied at the same will only apply one stack.(bug)

Map-Specific Differences

Arena icon Arena differences edit
  • Ability haste changed to 25.

Strategy

  • Black Cleaver Black Cleaver is usually purchased on physical damage dealers, mainly juggernauts, because they can apply the stacks quickly and survive long enough to benefit from the armor reduction.

Old icons

Trivia

  • 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 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 Berserker's Axe.
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Passive Maximum Stacks

Patch History

V14.4
V14.2
  • New Unique Passive - Fervor: Dealing physical damage grants you 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
  • Removed Unique Passive - Rage: Basic attacks on-hit grant (Melee role 20 / Ranged role 10) bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
V14.1
  • New:
    • Recipe: Phage Phage + Kindlegem Kindlegem + Long Sword Long Sword + 750 Gold 750 = 3000 Gold 3000.
    • Stats: 400 health, 55 attack damage, 20 ability haste.
    • Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack inflicts 4% armor reduction, up to 24% at 6 stacks.
    • Unique Passive - Rage: Basic attacks on-hit grant (Melee role 20 / Ranged role 10) bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
    • Limited to 1 Anti-Armor item.
    • Ornn's Ornn's Masterwork Masterwork item: Obsidian Cleaver Obsidian Cleaver.
      • Stats: 600 health, 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste.
  • Old:
    • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem Kindlegem + Long Sword Long Sword + 850 Gold 850 = 3100 Gold 3100.
    • Stats: 400 health, 50 attack damage, 30 ability haste.
    • Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack inflicts 5% armor reduction, up to 30% at 6 stacks.
    • Unique Passive - 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.
    • Limited to 1 Black Cleaver.
V13.1b
  • Attack damage increased to 50 from 45.
  • Health increased to 400 from 350.
V12.14
  • Bug Fix: Bonus damage tracker now properly takes into account damage absorbed by shields.
V12.13
  • Now calculates and tracks the additional damage dealt due to applying Carve's armor reduction in the tooltip.
V12.8
  • Bug Fix: Titanic Hydra's 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 Gold 3100 from 3300 Gold 3300.
    • Combine cost reduced to 850 Gold 850 from 1050 Gold 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.
V10.23
  • Updated icon.
  • New:
    • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem Kindlegem + Long Sword Long Sword + 1050 Gold 1050 = 3300 Gold 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 Phage + Kindlegem Kindlegem + 950 Gold 950 = 3000 Gold 3000.
    • Stats: 400 health, 40 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.
    • Unique Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them, Armor penetration icon reducing their Armor icon armor by 4% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times for a maximum of 24%.
    • Unique Passive - Rage: Dealing physical damage grants (Melee role 20 / Ranged role 10) movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant (Melee role 60 / Ranged role 30) movement speed for 2 seconds instead.
    • Ornn's Ornn's Masterwork Masterwork item: Obsidian Cleaver Obsidian Cleaver.
      • Stats: 550 health, 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.
V9.19
  • Renamed Black Cleaver from The Black Cleaver.
  • Obsidian Cleaver Obsidian Cleaver
    • Renamed Obsidian Cleaver from The Obsidian Cleaver.
V9.1
  • The Obsidian Cleaver The Obsidian Cleaver
    • Total cost reduced to 3000 Gold 3000 from 4000 Gold 4000.
      • Combine cost reduced to 0 Gold 0 from 1000 Gold 1000.
    • Can now only be obtained if Ornn 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 The Obsidian Cleaver.
    • Recipe: The Black Cleaver The Black Cleaver + 1000 Gold 1000 = 4000 Gold 4000.
    • Stats: 550 health, 60 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 (Melee role 20 / Ranged role 10) movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant (Melee role 60 / Ranged role 30) movement speed for 2 seconds instead.
    • Only available while Ornn Ornn is on your team. Limited to one Master Craftsman Master Craftsman item.
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
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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