Come on guys, this is simple.

Pre-patch you typically built BC if you were already winning to snowball harder. Vayne is a good example of someone that did this. If you built BC chances were you were already ahead, and thus had a high chance of wnning. BC was a 'luxury/snowball' item.

Now you build BC if your winning or losing.

Note the number of cleavers in this game. Has anyone else seen more?

Guess which team won

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Win rate on items is a terrible way to judge the power of that item.

I think we can all agree that Leviathan is a terrible item, yet it had a pretty high win rate because people only bought it when they were like "**** it, im winning so hard that I can buy the worst snowball item in the game."

Thats just one of many ways one can skew the data. This winrate drop means nothing.

Two main reasons:

1. BC used to be a snowball item, you got it to turn a small lead into a big one. In situations like these, games are generally already won.

2. When both teams have at least one black cleaver, ofc the win rate will go down because one team HAS to lose every game.

Lol. Title-readers.

I even edited the post to explain the joke before the 3rd post in this thread and you're still trying to act all mathematical. Lighten up.

Previously people just bought BC as a troll item when they were already winning and had too much gold.


So at the surrender screen they could type in /all black cleaver OP,

Now, the losing team is buying it pretty evenly with the winning team.

It was only ever built beforehand when you were stomping