Earns extra gold from unit kills and bounty runes
Synthesizing extra resources from each and every kill, Alchemist has no trouble gathering the tools needed to destroy his foes. Ambushing enemies with corrosive acid and a host of unstable chemicals, he battles to ensure his greedy escapades can remain uninterrupted.
Attributes
506 +59.4/lvl
300 +21.6/lvl
23 +2.7/lvl
22 +1.5/lvl
25 +1.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
27 - 33 + 1.5/level (70.5 - 76.5 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
0 + 0.3/level (8.7 at level 30)
Movement:
295
Roles
Carry
Escape
Nuker
Initiator
Durable
Disabler
Support
Pusher
Strategy
Collecting Bounty Runes is very important for Alchemist. Let your team know when the bounty runes are about to spawn.
Use unstable concoction to secure last hits on range creeps and harras the opponent in the early stages of the lane.
Alchemist prefers to farm huge amounts of easy to kill creeps. Avoid farming Ancients until you can kill them reasonably fast. Ask your team to stack smaller camps.
Chemical Rage applies dispel on cast, same as Berserker's Potion. You can use them to dispel Spirit Vessel or other dispellable spells and items.
Whilst farming, show yourself on lanes the least possible and don't waste your Greevil's Greed stacks by hitting buildings for too long.
Blink Dagger or Shadow Blade allow you to cast fully channeled Unstable Concoction more easily.
Once you get closer to being 6 slotted, consider giving Aghanim's Scepter upgrades to your teammates. You might do that even earlier, if the Scepter upgrades on your allies have great impact.
Alchemist tends to fall off as the game goes. Look to close the game by the 40 min mark.
Counter Strategy
Someone should buy spirit Vessel against Alchemist's HP regen from Chemical Rage
Block neutral camps with wards against Alchemist
Don't forget to gank Alchemist
Alchemist gets additional gold from bouty runes. Make sure he doesn't get any
Contest Alchemist while he is jungling
Stats
Win Rate 50.3%
Pick Rate 3.7%
Facets
Seed Money
Win Rate: 50.5%
Pick Rate: 73.2%
Alchemist starts with 250 more gold.
Greevil's Greed
Mixologist
Win Rate: 49.6%
Pick Rate: 26.8%
Unstable Concoction and Berserk Potion recharge faster when in Chemical Rage.
Berserk Potion
While Alchemist is affected by Chemical Rage, cooldown is reduced by 50%.
Unstable Concoction
While Alchemist is affected by Chemical Rage, cooldown is reduced by 30%.
Abilities
Acid Spray
Sprays high-pressure acid across a target area. Enemy units who step across the contaminated terrain take damage per second and have their armor reduced.
AFFECTS:area
PASSIVE:No
radius:400 / 475 / 550 / 625
duration:15
damage:25 / 30 / 35 / 40
armor reduction:3 / 4 / 5 / 6
tick rate:1
+1 Acid Spray Armor Reduction
Acid Spray grants armor to allies
22 / 21 / 20 / 19
110
Unstable Concoction
Alchemist brews up an unstable concoction that he can throw at an enemy hero, to stun and deal damage in an area around the explosion. The longer the concoction brews, the more damage it deals and the longer the stun. Alchemist is faster while charging the concoction. After 5 seconds, the brew reaches its maximum damage and stun time. However, after 5.5 seconds, the concoction will explode on Alchemist himself if not thrown.
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:strong
brew time:5
brew explosion:5.5
min stun:0.25
max stun:1.7 / 2.2 / 2.7 / 3.2
max damage:150 / 220 / 290 / 360
radius:250
move speed:4 / 8 / 12 / 16
+125 Unstable Concoction Radius
+400 Unstable Concoction Max Damage
15
100
Corrosive Weaponry
Alchemist coats his weapons with an acid that applies a stacking slow and base attack damage reduction to enemies hit.
PASSIVE:Breakable
max stacks:4 / 6 / 8 / 10
debuff duration:4
slow per stack:4 / 5 / 6 / 7
attack damage per stack:3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Chemical Rage
Alchemist causes his Ogre to enter a chemically induced rage, reducing base attack cooldown and increasing movement speed and health regeneration. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
PASSIVE:No
duration:30
transformation time:0.35
base attack time:1.2 / 1.1 / 1
bonus health regen:60 / 90 / 120
bonus movespeed:30 / 45 / 60
Aghanim`s Scepter Upgrade
Alchemist melts down Aghanim's Scepter to grant an allied hero all Aghanim's Scepter upgrades. Alchemist will gain bonus damage and spell amplification for each gifted Scepter.
-0.1s Chemical Rage Base Attack Time
+50 Chemical Rage Movement Speed
+50 Chemical Rage Regeneration
60
50 / 75 / 100
Berserk Potion
Alchemist throws a potion at an ally, applying a basic dispel and giving them attack speed, movement speed and HP regen.DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
AFFECTS:unit
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:basic
BUFF:yes
duration:10
attack speed:50
hp regen:40
projectile speed:900
move speed:30
35
100
Talents
+1 Acid Spray Armor Reduction
+125 Unstable Concoction Radius
Acid Spray grants armor to allies
+2 Damage per Greevil's Greed stack
-0.1s Chemical Rage Base Attack Time
+400 Unstable Concoction Max Damage
+50 Chemical Rage Movement Speed
+50 Chemical Rage Regeneration
Lore
The sacred science of Chymistry was a Darkbrew family tradition, but no Darkbrew had ever shown the kind of creativity, ambition, and recklessness of young Razzil. However, when adulthood came calling he pushed aside the family trade to try his hand at manufacturing gold through Alchemy. In an act of audacity befitting his reputation, Razzil announced he would transmute an entire mountain into gold. Following two decades of research and spending and preparation, he failed spectacularly, quickly finding himself imprisoned for the widespread destruction his experiment wrought. Yet Razzil was never one to take a setback lightly, and sought escape to continue his research. When his new cellmate turned out to be a fierce ogre, he found just the opportunity he needed. After convincing the ogre not to eat him, Razzil set about carefully concocting a tincture for it to drink, made from the moulds and mosses growing in the prison stone work. In a week's time, it seemed ready. When the ogre drank the potion, it flew into an unstoppable berserker rage, destroying the cell bars and exploding through walls and guards alike. They soon found themselves lost somewhere in the forest surrounding the city with a trail of wreckage in their wake and no signs of pursuit. In the tonic's afterglow, the ogre seemed serene, happy, and even eager. Resolving to work together, the pair set off to collect the materials needed to attempt Razzil's Alchemic transmutation once more.