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Black Cleaver

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Black Cleaver has been changed in 26 League of Legends patches. 5 buffs, 4 nerfs, 16 adjustments. Most recently nerfed in Patch 14.19.

Cost: 3000g
Attack Damage: 40
Ability Haste: 20
Health: 400
Recipe:
UNIQUE Passive - Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack inflicts 6% armor reduction, up to 30% at 5 stacks.
UNIQUE Passive - Fervor: Dealing physical damage grants you 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
Patch 14.19nerf

General

  • New Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Pickaxe + 225 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Attack damage reduced to 40 from 55.
Patch 14.16nerf

We're softening some of Black Cleaver's stacking rules, which will make the item much stronger for some champions who used to be able to apply two stacks at once.

General

  • Removed: No longer has a 0.01-second internal delay between applying stacks.
Patch 14.10buff

We want Black Cleaver to be a core component of most fighter builds. One key tenet of fighter combat patterns is target agnosticism, which is one factor that differentiates them from assassins. Not only do we like when they're good at hitting the front line, we also want them to be a little bit cooperative, which allows some of their combat power to come from team fighting and not just side lane 1v1s.

General

  • Carve armor reduction per stack increased to 6% from 5%.
  • Carve maximum armor reduction increased to 30% from 25%.
Patch 14.4change

General

  • New Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Carve armor reduction per stack increased to 5% from 4%.
  • Carve maximum stacks reduced to 5 from 6.
  • New Effect: Fervor can now trigger on mitigated damage.
Patch 14.2change

General

  • 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 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
Patch 14.1change

General

  • New:
  • Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 gold = 3000 gold.
  • 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 20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
  • Limited to 1 Fatality item.
  • Living Forge item: Obsidian Cleaver.
  • Stats: 600 health, 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste.
  • Old:
  • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 850 gold = 3100 gold.
  • 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.
Patch 13.1bbuff

General

  • Attack damage increased to 50 from 45.
  • Health increased to 400 from 350.
Patch 12.14change

General

  • Bug Fix: Bonus damage tracker now properly takes into account damage absorbed by shields.
Patch 12.13change

General

  • Now calculates and tracks the additional damage dealt due to applying Carve's armor reduction in the tooltip.
Patch 12.8change

General

  • Bug Fix: Titanic Hydra 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.
Patch 12.3change

General

  • Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
  • Ability haste increased to 30 from 25.
  • Health reduced to 350 from 450.
Patch 11.13change

General

  • 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.
Patch 11.12change

General

  • Bug Fix: Now properly appears in the movement tab of the in-game shop.
Patch 11.11buff

Even with our changes to Black Cleaver’s functionality in Patch 11.5, it hasn’t been a popular pick this season. We’re sharpening one of its unique points to better compete with its alternatives.

General

  • Armor reduction per Carve stack increased to 5% from 4%.
  • Maximum armor reduction increased to 30% from 24%.
Patch 11.5buff

Adjusting Black Cleaver to be better suited for longer fights while packing it with more punch for its cost.

General

  • Total cost reduced to 3100 gold from 3300 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 850 gold from 1050 gold.
  • 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.
Patch 10.23buff

Now deals missing health damage against fully stacked targets. No longer grants movement speed on-hit.

General

  • Updated icon.
  • New:
  • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 1050 gold = 3300 gold.
  • 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 + Kindlegem + 950 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Stats: 400 health, 40 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 20 movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds instead.
  • Living Forge item: Obsidian Cleaver.
  • Stats: 550 health, 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.
Patch 9.19change

General

  • Renamed Black Cleaver from The Black Cleaver.
Patch 7.9nerf

General

  • Armor reduction per stack reduced to 4% from 5%.
  • Maximum armor reduction reduced to 24% from 30%.
Patch 7.4change

General

  • New Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + 950 gold = 3000 gold
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + 750 gold = 3100 gold
  • Health increased to 400 from 300.
  • Attack damage reduced to 40 from 50.
Patch 6.16change

General

  • 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.
Patch 6.9change

General

  • Combine cost reduced to 750 gold from 1150 gold.
  • Total cost reduced to 3100 gold from 3500 gold.
  • Attack damage reduced to 50 from 55.
Patch 5.8change

General

  • New item icon
  • New recipe: Kindlegem + Phage + 825 gold = 3000 gold
  • Old recipe: Ruby Crystal + The Brutalizer + 1263 gold = 3000 gold
  • 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.
Patch 3.9change

General

  • Can no longer apply more than one stack of armor shred in a single basic attack.
Patch 3.1change

General

  • Health reduced to 200 from 300
  • Maximum stacks increased to 5 from 4
  • Armor reduction per stack reduced to 5% from 6%
  • Fixed a bug where spells were applying more reduction than intended
Patch 1.0.0.153nerf

General

  • 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.
Patch 1.0.0.108new

Black Cleaver added to League of Legends

General

  • New recipe: B. F. Sword + Dagger + 795 gold.
  • Total cost remains the same.
  • Attack damage reduced to 55 from 75.
  • Now adds 30% increased attack speed.
  • Unique Passive
  • Armor shred per stack increased to 15 from 12.
  • Maximum of stacks reduced to 3 from 5.