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Alchemist build & guide (7.41)

Earns extra gold from unit kills and bounty runes

Alchemist Carry build

Divine – Immortal · 45.6% win rate · 1,166 matches · Tier D · Sep 11 – Sep 17

Skill order

Skill priority Acid Spray › Unstable Concoction › Corrosive Weaponry

Chemical Rage at 6, 12 and 18

  1. Level 1: Unstable Concoction
  2. Level 2: Acid Spray
  3. Level 3: Acid Spray
  4. Level 4: Corrosive Weaponry
  5. Level 5: Acid Spray
  6. Level 6: Chemical Rage
  7. Level 7: Acid Spray
  8. Level 8: Unstable Concoction
  9. Level 9: Unstable Concoction
  10. Level 10: Unstable Concoction
  11. Level 11: Unstable Concoction Radius (talent)
  12. Level 12: Corrosive Weaponry
  13. Level 13: Chemical Rage
  14. Level 14: Corrosive Weaponry
  15. Level 15: Corrosive Weaponry
  16. Level 16: Greevil's Greed provides Damage per stack (talent)
  17. Level 18: Chemical Rage
  18. Level 20: Chemical Rage Base Attack Time (talent)
  19. Level 25: Chemical Rage Movement Speed (talent)

Items

Starting items

  • Quelling Blade 100% pick · 45.8% win rate
  • Gauntlets of Strength 95% pick · 48.1% win rate
  • Tango 89% pick · 45.9% win rate
  • Iron Branch 85% pick · 44.6% win rate

Early game

  • Soul Ring 4 min · 99% pick · 48.1% win rate
  • Magic Wand 3 min · 55% pick · 45.1% win rate
  • Bracer 2 min · 14% pick · 41.7% win rate

Boots

  • Phase Boots 7 min · 64% pick · 47.6% win rate
  • Power Treads 8 min · 34% pick · 45.8% win rate
  • Boots of Travel 35 min · 12% pick · 63.2% win rate

Core build

  • Radiance 15 min · 100% pick · 47.1% win rate
  • Manta Style 25 min · 28% pick · 52.0% win rate
  • Aghanim's Scepter 25 min · 55% pick · 52.3% win rate
  • Black King Bar 27 min · 76% pick · 48.7% win rate
  • Assault Cuirass 30 min · 47% pick · 61.7% win rate

Situational

  • Abyssal Blade 38 min · 26% pick · 65.2% win rate
  • Bloodthorn 32 min · 25% pick · 64.6% win rate
  • Swift Blink 39 min · 22% pick · 62.7% win rate
  • Aghanim's Shard 40 min · 11% pick · 55.8% win rate
  • Sange and Yasha 24 min · 10% pick · 59.2% win rate
  • Monkey King Bar 37 min · 7% pick · 39.6% win rate

Late game

  • Blink Dagger 5/10 games
  • Mjollnir 2/10 games
  • Eye of Skadi 2/10 games

Talents

  • Level 25: Chemical Rage Movement Speed 64% pick · 60.6% win rate or Chemical Rage Regeneration 36% pick · 61.8% win rate
  • Level 20: Chemical Rage Base Attack Time 86% pick · 54.0% win rate or Unstable Concoction Max Damage 14% pick · 56.5% win rate
  • Level 15: Corrosive Weaponry Slow / Damage Reduction Per Stack – win rate or Greevil's Greed provides Damage per stack 48.7% win rate
  • Level 10: Unstable Concoction Radius 79% pick · 47.9% win rate or Acid Spray Armor Reduction 21% pick · 46.0% win rate

Matchups

Strong against

  • Legion Commander +6.7% advantage · 50.4% win rate · 127 games
  • Axe +5.2% advantage · 52.1% win rate · 165 games
  • Invoker +4.1% advantage · 47.8% win rate · 205 games
  • Juggernaut +3.2% advantage · 46.1% win rate · 178 games
  • Earthshaker +2.7% advantage · 47.6% win rate · 143 games
  • Luna +2.4% advantage · 46.9% win rate · 130 games

Weak against

  • Hoodwink -9.6% advantage · 39.0% win rate · 146 games
  • Spirit Breaker -4.7% advantage · 39.0% win rate · 159 games
  • Windranger -3.4% advantage · 43.4% win rate · 205 games
  • Magnus -3.2% advantage · 43.3% win rate · 134 games
  • Slark -2.9% advantage · 43.7% win rate · 151 games
  • Dawnbreaker -2.5% advantage · 40.8% win rate · 130 games

Builds from 701 parsed games

Alchemist counters & matchups

  • Strength: 23 +2.7
  • Agility: 19 +1.5
  • Intelligence: 25 +1.8
  • Damage: 50–56
  • Armor: 3.1666667
  • Move speed: 290
  • Attack range: 150

Alchemist 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.

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.

Corrosive Weaponry

Alchemist coats his weapons and empowers his spells with an acid that applies a stacking slow and base attack damage reduction to enemies hit. Attacks apply 2 stacks. Unstable Concoction applies 1 stack per second of brew time.

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

Greevil's Greed

Alchemist synthesizes additional gold from his enemies and bounty runes. With each kill, Alchemist earns base bonus gold and extra bonus gold. If Alchemist kills another unit which yields gold within the next 40 seconds, an additional instance of Extra Bonus Gold is added to the total. Additionally, causes bounty runes to yield more gold.

Aghanim's Scepter: Alchemist melts down Aghanim's Scepter to grant an allied hero all Aghanim's Scepter upgrades. Alchemist will gain bonus 15 damage and 3 additional base and max Greevil's Greed Extra Gold for each melted Scepter.

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

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.