Black Cleaver

Black Cleaver

Legendary 3,000 gold Sells for 2,100 gold

Stats

Health 400
Attack Damage 40

Build Path

Built from

Best win rate champions

Top 20 champions with the highest win rate using this item

# Champion Role Win Rate Pick Rate
1 Top 55.7% 31.6%
2 Jungle 55.6% 25.1%
3 Jungle 55.5% 31.4%
4 ADC 55.5% 9.0%
5 Jungle 55.1% 16.4%
6 Top 54.9% 29.0%
7 Support 54.8% 81.6%
8 Jungle 54.8% 30.1%
9 Top 54.8% 10.8%
10
Vi Vi
Jungle 54.4% 41.1%
11 ADC 54.2% 66.4%
12 Top 54.1% 9.7%
13 Top 53.6% 59.6%
14 Jungle 53.5% 33.9%
15 Jungle 53.3% 47.7%
16 Jungle 53.3% 28.1%
17 Top 53.2% 22.4%
18 Top 53.1% 38.5%
19 Jungle 53.1% 14.0%
20 Top 53.0% 93.4%

Patch History

V14.19
  • New Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Pickaxe + 225 = 3000. Old Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 = 3000.
  • Attack damage reduced to 40 from 55.
V14.16
  • Removed: No longer has a 0.01-second internal delay between applying stacks.
V14.11
  • Can no longer be upgraded to Obsidian Cleaver.
V14.10
  • Carve armor reduction per stack increased to 6% from 5%. Carve maximum armor reduction increased to 30% from 25%.
V14.4
  • New Recipe: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 = 3000. Old Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 = 3000.
  • 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.
V14.2
  • New Unique Passive - Fervor: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical damage grants you Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)20 bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
  • Removed Unique Passive - Rage: Basic attacks on-hit grant Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)( 20 / 10) bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
V14.1
  • New: Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 = 3000. Stats: 400 health, 55 attack damage, 20 ability haste. Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical 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 Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)( 20 / 10) bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. Limited to 1 Fatality item. Ornn's Masterwork item: Obsidian Cleaver. Stats: 600 health, 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste.
  • Old: Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 850 = 3100. Stats: 400 health, 50 attack damage, 30 ability haste. Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical 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 Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical damage to an enemy champion grants Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)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 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 from 3300. Combine cost reduced to 850 from 1050.
  • Health increased to 400 from 300.
  • New Unique Passive - Rage: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical damage to a champion grants Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)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 Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical damage against fully Shredded enemies deal Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangebonus physical damage equal to Champions killed with Comeuppance (R)5% of their missing health. This is reduced to Champions killed with Comeuppance (R)2% of their missing health for damage over time effects, which may only deal the bonus damage every 0.5 seconds. Butcher dealt default damage.
V10.23
  • Updated icon.
  • New: Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 1050 = 3300. Stats: 300 health, 40 attack damage, 25 ability haste. Unique Passive - Carve: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical 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 Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangebonus physical damage equal to Champions killed with Comeuppance (R)5% of their missing health, reduced to Champions killed with Comeuppance (R)2% of their missing health for damage over time effects (0.5 second cooldown). Limited to 1 Black Cleaver.
  • Old: Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + 950 = 3000. Stats: 400 health, 40 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction. Unique Passive: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical 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 Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)( 20 / 10) movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)( 60 / 30) movement speed for 2 seconds instead. Ornn's Masterwork item: Obsidian Cleaver. Stats: 550 health, 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction.
V9.19
  • Renamed Black Cleaver from The Black Cleaver.
  • Obsidian Cleaver Renamed Obsidian Cleaver from The Obsidian Cleaver.
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. Recipe: The Black Cleaver + 1000 = 4000. Stats: 550 health, 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction. Unique Passive: Dealing Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical 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 Champions killed from outside standard Attack rangephysical damage grants Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)( 20 / 10) movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant Champions killed 5s before or after using Chronobreak (R)( 60 / 30) movement speed for 2 seconds instead. Only available while Ornn is on your team. Limited to one 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
  • 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.
  • Attack damage reduced to 75 from 80.

Item stats

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Build path

The components this item is built from, and the items it can be upgraded into, taken from the game's recipe data for the current patch.

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Best win rate champions

The champions with the highest win rate when they buy this item on the current patch, with their main role and the share of their games where they build it (pick rate).

A high win rate with a low pick rate often means a niche build that works in specific games, or simply a small sample. The safest reads are the lines where both figures are high: the item is both common and effective on that champion.

Patch history

Changes made to this item, patch by patch, most recent first, as published in the official patch notes.

Cost, stat and passive changes all move the win rates above: when a figure jumps between two patches, look here first.