The Black Cleaver; Warmog's-Style Adjustment

AHarmlessTaco·4/16/2019, 9:54:48 PM·2 votes·1,099 views

The Black Cleaver is an item that can be picked up generically by a lot of champions with very little drawback, which enables a lot of fighter champions access to an unnecessarily strong amount of armor penetration for their otherwise designed-to-be-countered-by-tanks kits.

I know the item is also core on its intended users like Garen, Darius, etc and I don't want to see them lose it. My proposal is to simply activate the armor shred component at 3000 health just like Warmog's Armor. It will impact and delay the intended users, but it will force a lot of other champions to make a conscious decision to buy it in that they will also need to buy more health to make it worthwhile.

Of course, that means they only need 1 or 2 additional health items, but in my mind it would go a long way towards helping tank-top laners to at least get out of lane and might dissuade champions like Riven from getting the item in the first place or perhaps postpone it as a final item.

4 Comments

The Ecdysiast4/16/2019, 10:49:50 PM1 votes

3000 is a bit too high. Maybe drop it to 2200, which fits snuggly around level 11 with Cleaver and Sterak's.

Moody P4/16/2019, 10:59:52 PM1 votes

BC is supposed to be a generic core item and champions like Riven are supposed to out scale tanks eventually.

Why nerf an item that's already pretty garbage?