Black Cleaver needs a serious buff

feintfiend·Sep 14, 2018·3 votes·704 views

Many of the champions that were intended to use this item have switched to Triforce. Current Black Cleaver is an unfocused ball of stats that's built soley beause the stats are efficient but now even that isn't working out.

Imo fight fire with fire and increase Black Cleaver's AD to 60 but also slightly increase its cost You know there's a serious problem when even Rek'Sai would rather avoid building this item. Also i suggest removing kindlegem as an item its crafted from and replacing it with Caulfield's Warhammer and a ruby crystal

3 Comments

AlzonSep 14, 20185 votes

It’s not that Black Cleaver is bad, or even that Triforce is better. It’s that Triforce is a lot better early game while Cleaver is a lot better late game. Games are so short that Cleaver rarely comes online.

Frosted TipsSep 14, 20182 votes

Also because Conqueror and Black Cleaver are counter intuitive and most champs that want to build Black Cleaver run Conq.

sneakydougSep 14, 20182 votes

In a slower meta where champions can actually survive 5 hits, black cleaver can be quite efficient. But when everyone does in 3 seconds, there’s no point in picking a gradual Armor shredding item over an item that gives 20% CDR, damage, speed, more damage. If the meta slows down black cleaver will become decent again without any modifications. No more damage buffs please. We don’t need more.