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Alchemist

#60

23 + 2.7

19 + 1.5

25 + 1.8

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+59.4HP and +0.27HP regeneration +2.7 Main Attack Damage
	+0.25 armor and 1.5 attack speed
	+21.6MP and +0.09MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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626 +2.55

375 +1.25

3.17 Armor (745.07 EHP)

27.5% Magic Resist (863.45 EHP)

50 ‒ 56 ▶️ Damage (53 Avg)

Instant Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

150 Attack Range (600)

110 (129) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.35 + 0.65 Animation

290 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Default Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_alchemist

2011-11-18 Released

2006-08-25 (6.36)

Competitive Span 2011-12-01 — Present

Version Control This article is mostly accurate for 7.41c, the last version this hero was changed in. New interactions that emerged in following patches may have not yet been accounted for.

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Earns extra gold from unit kills and bounty runes.
Having broken out of prison with his ogre accomplice, Razzil Darkbrew embarks on the search for new materials to use in his transmutations. Learned in alchemy, he infuses his partner's weapons with Corrosive Substances and created toxic Sludge Acids to accelerate his Greevil's Greed — extracting extra gold from creeps and Bounty Runes. With enough resources, it is rumored that Razzil has the secret formula to Synthesize a buff into the body that equals the legendary scepter. The Alchemist brews, atop the shoulders of his companion, an increasingly Unstable Concoction that is ideally thrown before it explodes. In a pinch, Razzil slips his partner with an Unknown Potion, inducing a Chemical Rage in the ogre's body. Symptoms include unnatural speeds, rapid health regeneration, and a pleasant purple hue.
Roles:	Carry Support Durable Disabler Initiator Nuker
Adjectives	Bearded, Potbelly, Steed, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Bio

Failure is just another kind of success. The wrong kind.

▶️  Razzil Darkbrew, the Alchemist

Alias:

Razzil

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.

Voice:

Bruce Miles (Responses)

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Melts down an Aghanim's Scepter in his inventory, synthesizing a buff that grants an allied hero all of its upgrades.

Grants self bonus attack damage.

Increases the base gold bonus and max gold bonus per granted Aghanim's Scepter to Alchemist's allied heroes.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Berserk Potion ability.

Throws a potion at an allied unit, applying a basic dispel and granting them bonus attack speed, movement speed and health regeneration.

Talents

+50 Chemical Rage Health Regen	25	+50 Chemical Rage Move Speed
+400 Unstable Concoction Max Damage	20	-0.1s Chemical Rage Base Attack Time
+3 Attack Damage Bonus per Greevil's Greed Stack	15	+1 Acid Spray Armor Reduction
+150 Unstable Concoction Radius	10	+1% Corrosive Weaponry Move Speed Slow/Base Damage Reduction per Stack
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Innate

Greevil's Greed

Greevil's Greed

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Synthesizes additional gold from killed enemy units.

Alchemist earns base bonus gold and extra bonus gold per last hit. If Alchemist kills another unit which grants gold within a short duration, an additional instance of bonus gold is added to the total.

Max Stacks: 8

Base Gold Bonus: 2

Gold Bonus per Stack: 2

Max Gold Bonus: 16

Buff Duration: 40

Gold Bonus to Attack Damage Bonus Factor: ( 3)

Innate Properties
Additionally, Greevil's Greed causes Bounty Runes to yield more gold only for Alchemist.

Self Gold Bonus Multiplier: 2

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Increases the base gold bonus and max gold bonus per granted Aghanim's Scepter to Alchemist's allied heroes.

Base Gold Bonus per Granted Scepter: ( 3)

Max Gold Bonus per Granted Scepter: ( 3)

While it is not a mountain, Razzil has mastered the conversion of smaller compounds to line his pockets.

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• This innate ability is in the       fifth ability slot.

• Greevil's Greed is an on-death effect.
  • Grants a stack per last hit of Alchemist on units with a death gold bounty.
  • A second bounty number appears next to the last hit bounty, only visible to Alchemist, indicating the extra gold granted.
  • Does not grant stacks from the following units:
    • Buildings
    • Illusions and the Tempest Double.
    • Denies and last hits of Alchemist's summons.
    • Units with Reincarnation sources, except for Wraith King Skeletons.

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  • All stacks work independently with its own 40-second duration.
    • The buff value indicates the extra gold Alchemist gains on the next last hit.
  • TALENT NOTES
    Grants flat bonus attack damage.

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  • The bonus Gold granted has the following properties:
  • Unreliable gold bonus from last hits.
  • Reliable gold bonus from all activated Bounty Runes of Alchemist's team.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

Non-functional for created illusions.
However, they have the buff for camouflaging.

Interactions: Break Sources

Disables both the buff stack gain and the Bounty Rune multiplier.

However, existing stacks are not removed.

modifier_alchemist_goblins_greed

Greevil's Greed: Grants bonus gold when you kill units.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PREATTACK_BONUS_DAMAGE
MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_DEATH

• 4 last hits are required to reach the max ability values.

Greevil's Greed Calculations

• Grants the following ability values per stacks per granted Aghanim's Scepter:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Base	( 2 + 3 × AlliedHero) +
Bonus ()	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16
	+ 3 × AlliedHero
	6	12	18	24	30	36	42	48
	+ 9 × AlliedHero

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Allied Heroes / Self

Alchemist's hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.

They both may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling, excluding passive innate abilities.

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Melts down an Aghanim's Scepter in his inventory, synthesizing a buff that grants an allied hero all of its upgrades.

Grants self bonus attack damage.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range: Global

Attack Damage Bonus per Stack: 15

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Grants all of the item's stats to the unit-targeted allied hero as a permanent status buff.

All Attributes Bonus: 10

Health: 175

Mana: 175

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Hidden Innate Abilities

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  • Interrupts Alchemist's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • Aghanim's Scepter of Alchemist's has the following properties:
    • The item is an active ability.
      • Doubletap self-casts the ability.
  • Grants the following bonuses per stack upon cast:
    • Flat bonus attack damage.

• item_ultimate_scepter_consumed_alchemist
  • Neither can cast nor reapply the buff on an allied hero who already has the buff.
  • Upon cast, the Aghanim's Scepter is consumed while the unit-targeted allied hero is granted all of the item's properties as a buff. This includes the following:
    • The item's stats.
    • The item's net worth is now transferred from Alchemist to the affected target.

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  • For affected allied heroes who already have Aghanim's Scepter either in their inventory or backpack:
    • Refunds as 4200 unreliable gold.
    • Both types of Aghanim's Blessing refunds 5800 unreliable gold regardless of how the affected ally acquires the Aghanim's Blessing buff.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

Does not display the Aghanim's Scepter Synth buff on created illusions.

Interactions: Ability Draft

Aghanim's Scepter Synth is not Alchemist's innate ability.

Requires drafting Greevil's Greed to unlock this ability.

modifier_item_ultimate_scepter_consumed_alchemist

Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEALTH_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MANA_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_STATS_STRENGTH_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_STATS_AGILITY_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_STATS_INTELLECT_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_IS_SCEPTER
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERS

modifier_alchemist_scepter_bonus_damage (x)

Aghanim's Granted: Gaining x bonus attack damage from Aghanim scepters granted to allies.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PREATTACK_BONUS_DAMAGE

Abilities

Acid Spray

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Acid Spray

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Ability

Area / Aura

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Physical

Enemy units who step across the contaminated terrain take damage per second and have their armor reduced.

Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.8

Cast Range:  900

Radius: 350/400/450/500

Damage per Second: 25/30/35/40

Armor Reduction: 3/4/5/6 ( 4/5/6/7)

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Duration: 15

Continuously applies Corrosive Weaponry stacks on enemy units affected by Acid Spray.

Stack per Damage Interval: 1

21

120

Using traditional Alchemy from the Darkbrew family, Razzil concocts an acid that dissolves even the toughest metals.

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  • 
    • Creates an aura at the area-targeted location upon cast.
    • Can affect enemy units at max 1250/1300/1350/1400-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.
  • Both the bonus armor reduction and the damage per second components are independent of each other.
    • For units already affected by the debuff, the armor value of the current instance does not update upon leveling up the ability.
    • However, the armor value of the current instance updates if the debuff was applied after leveling up the ability.
  • All ability components do not affect the following units:
    • Couriers

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. Deals physical spell damage to affected enemy units in 1-second intervals within the radius, starting immediately upon debuff application, over 16 instances.
     • The damage per second value of the current instance does not update with the ability level.
     • 
       • Multiple overlapping Acid Spray damage radius stack.
  2. Applies alchemist_corrosive_weaponry_debuff of its corresponding level in 1-second intervals within the radius, starting 1 second upon the spell damage application.

Interactions: Debuff Immunity

Does not affect already debuff immune enemy units.

Fully affects debuff immune allied units.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

Cannot utilize the bonus armor component by design.

modifier_alchemist_acid_spray_thinker

On hidden entity

modifier_alchemist_acid_spray

On hidden entity

modifier_alchemist_acid_spray

Taking periodic damage, armor reduced by x. Armor increased by x.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PHYSICAL_ARMOR_BONUS

• Deals a max 400/480/560/640 physical spell damage (before reductions) within the radius for the entire duration.

Unstable Concoction

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Unstable Concoction

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Ability

No

Affects

Self

Damage

Spell / Physical

Brews up an unstable concoction that the Alchemist can throw at an enemy hero, to stun and deal damage within the radius around the explosion.

The longer the brew, the more the damage and the longer the stun. While brewing, Alchemist moves faster.

The brew reaches its max power after a period of time, and explodes himself if not thrown before the max brew time.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range: 775

Radius: 250 ( 400)

Max Brew Time: 5

Max Throw Time: 5.5

Move Speed Bonus: 4%/8%/12%/16%

Min Damage: 0

Max Damage: 150/220/290/360 ( 550/620/690/760)

Min Stun Duration: 0.25

Max Stun Duration: 1.7/2.2/2.7/3.2

Applies Corrosive Weaponry stacks correspondingly to its brew time on affected enemy units upon the Unstable Concoction projectile impact.

Stack per Second Brew Time: 1

Min Stack: 1

17

100

A silver lining to the failure of turning a mountain into gold, this volatile solution has destructive potential.

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  • Interrupts Alchemist's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • Can self- deny with the self-damage.
  • 
    • A countdown timer appears indicating the current Unstable Concoction brew time. This is visible to everyone.
      • However, enemy heroes can only hear the ability cast sound if Alchemist casts Unstable Concoction within their vision range.
    • When Alchemist dies while brewing, the Unstable Concoction immediately explodes, dealing the spell damage within the radius centered around Alchemist based on the brew time.
  • 
    • Grants bonus movement speed in the following conditions:
      • Until the Unstable Concoction Throw sub-ability is used.
      • The Unstable Concoction explodes on self.

• The ability values change per 0.1-seconds brewed, reaching the max values over 5 seconds:
  • 
    • Increases the total physical spell damage by 3/4.4/5.8/7.2 ( 11/12.4/13.8/15.2) per interval.
    • Increases the stun duration by 0.029/0.039/0.049/0.059 seconds per interval.
    • The Corrosive Weaponry stacks applied, and is defined as:
      • EXPR
        StackGain = ⌈ BrewTime ⌉ with MINStack = 1 , MAXStack = 6

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. The physical spell damage within the radius.
  2. stunned
  3. 
     • Applies alchemist_corrosive_weaponry_debuff corresponding to the brew time.

Interactions: Spell Block

The self-explosion component, both defensively or offensively, do not interact with Spell Block sources.

Interactions: Spell Steal

Rubick instantly self- stuns for the total brew duration upon losing the ability.

Interactions: Morph

Does not self- stun upon losing the ability or while the brew timer ends when the morphling_replicate expires.

modifier_alchemist_unstable_concoction

Hidden modifier

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE
MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ABILITY_START

modifier_stunned

Stunned

MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNED
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATION

Unstable Concoction Throw

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E

Unstable Concoction Throw

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Unit / Area

Affects

Enemy Heroes

Damage

Spell / Physical

The longer the concoction brews, the more the potent.

Throw it before it blows up!

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.5

Cast Range:  775

Radius: 250 ( 400)

Min Damage: 0

Max Damage: 150/220/290/360 ( 550/620/690/760)

Min Stun Duration: 0.25

Max Stun Duration: 1.7/2.2/2.7/3.2

Max Throw Time: 5.5

0

Sub-ability of Unstable Concoction.

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  • Replaces Unstable Concoction until this sub-ability is used or the Unstable Concoction self-explodes.
  • Upon the sub-ability cast, Unstable Concoction stops brewing, then Alchemist launches a projectile.

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  • Can affect enemy units at max 1025 ( 1175)-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.

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  • Can only be unit and area-targeted on enemy heroes.
    • Considers clones and illusions as heroes, creep-heroes as creeps.
  • 
    • Applies all the ability effects to valid enemy units within the radius, including when the projectile impacts on the following heroes:
      • Invulnerable heroes.
      • Hidden heroes.
    • Although the ability cannot target creeps, the ability effects fully affect enemy creeps within the radius upon projectile impact.

Interactions: Spell Block

Does not proc Spell Block sources on secondary targets within the radius.

Interactions: Spell Reflection

Does not proc Spell Reflection sources on secondary targets within the radius.

Interactions: Spell Steal

Grants Unstable Concoction if this sub-ability is the last cast ability.

Interactions: Spell Redirection

Fully affects the primary unit-targeted enemy and units within its radius per normal.

However, Unstable Concoction Throw is not cast on the secondary target.

modifier_stunned

Stunned

MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNED
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATION

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  • Has 900- projectile speed.

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. The physical spell damage.
  2. stunned
  3. 
     • Applies alchemist_corrosive_weaponry_debuff corresponding to the brew time.

Corrosive Weaponry

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G

Corrosive Weaponry

Ability

Passive

Affects

Enemy Units

Each successful attack applies a stacking slow and base attack damage reduction.

Max Stacks: 7/10/13/16

Stack per Attack: 2

Move Speed Slow per Stack: 2.5%/3%/3.5%/4% ( 3.5%/4%/4.5%/5%)

Base Attack Damage Reduction per Stack: 2.5%/3%/3.5%/4% ( 3.5%/4%/4.5%/5%)

Duration: 4

Innate Properties
Continuously applies Corrosive Weaponry stacks on enemy units affected by Acid Spray.

Stack per Damage Interval: 1

Innate Properties
Applies Corrosive Weaponry stacks correspondingly to its brew time on affected enemy units upon the Unstable Concoction projectile impact.

Stack per Second Brew Time: 1

Alchemist's attacks do not apply stacks on Roshan.

However, stacks can be applied via ability casts.

A powerful solvent that turned out to work all too well.

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• alchemist_corrosive_weaponry_debuff
  • All reduction values of this source stack additively per applied stack.
    • Applies base attack damage reduction.
  • Reapplying the debuff refreshes the duration and updates its values immediately at the corresponding level.

• Does not affect the following units:
  • Buildings

modifier_alchemist_self_corrosive_weaponry

Hidden modifier

MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDED

modifier_alchemist_corrosive_weaponry_debuff

Movement speed decreased by x%. Status resistance reduced by x%.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_BASEDAMAGEOUTGOING_PERCENTAGE

• Applies the following reduction values at max stacks:
  • Reduces movement speed by 17.5%/30%/45.5%/64%.
  • Reduces base attack damage by 17.5%/30%/45.5%/64%.

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. alchemist_corrosive_weaponry_debuff
  2. Alchemist's attack instance.

Berserk Potion

D

B

Berserk Potion

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Ability

Unit

Affects

Allied Units

Throws a potion at an allied unit, applying a basic dispel and granting them bonus attack speed, movement speed and health regeneration.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.63

Cast Range:  800

Move Speed Bonus: 30

Attack Speed Bonus: 50

Health Regen Bonus: 40

Duration: 15

35

100

After Razzil's great grandfather tested an early version of this potion on himself, a surviving family member immediately saw the profit potential.

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• Acquiring Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the       fourth ability slot.

• Applies a basic dispel upon projectile impact.
  • 
    • Doubletap casts the ability on Alchemist.
    • Self-casting the ability does not use a projectile.

• Affects the following units:
  • Couriers

Interactions: Disjoint Sources

The ability projectile cannot be disjointed under any circumstances.

Interactions: Ability Draft

Requires drafting Chemical Rage to unlock this ability.

modifier_alchemist_berserk_potion

Berserk Potion: Grants bonus attack speed and health regen.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_CONSTANT
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACKSPEED_BONUS_CONSTANT
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEALTH_REGEN_CONSTANT

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  • Has 900- projectile speed.

• Grants the following bonuses while active:
  • Has 320 ( 370/405/440, 420/455/490) movement speed.

Chemical Rage

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R

Chemical Rage

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Reduces the ogre's base attack time while granting bonus movement speed and health regeneration.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Transform Time: 0.35

Set Base Attack Time: 1.2/1.1/1 ( 1.1/1/0.9)

Health Regen Bonus: 50/85/120 ( 100/135/170)

Move Speed Bonus: 20/30/40 ( 70/80/90)

Duration: 30

60

50/75/100

The brew Razzil gave to the Ogre during their prison bust has become a useful potion in the midst of combat.

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  • The transformation does not persist through death.
  • Applies a stun while transforming, and cannot be interrupted.
  • Grants the following bonuses upon cast:
    • Applies a basic dispel on Alchemist.
    • Disjoint incoming projectiles.
    • Set its base attack time to the aforementioned values.

• Recasting the ability refreshes the duration and adapts all ability values correspondingly.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

The created illusions have the same buff duration.

modifier_alchemist_chemical_rage_transform

Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNED
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERS

modifier_alchemist_chemical_rage

Chemical Rage: Reducing attack time to x, increasing health regeneration by x, increasing movement speed by x.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_CONSTANT
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_BASE_ATTACK_TIME_CONSTANT
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEALTH_REGEN_CONSTANT
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERS

• Grants the following bonuses while active:
  • Has 310/320/330 ( 360/370/380) movement speed.
  • 
    • The hero model now has a purple hue, using the same attack time with a different attack animation.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Alchemist/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score			vs. Picks	Patch
June 6, 2026 - 17:00 CEST	Tier 3		EPL Season 38 - June 6				0 : 1			7.41c	+ Details
June 6, 2026 - 14:00 CEST	Tier 3		EPL Season 38 - June 6				0 : 1			7.41c	+ Details
June 6, 2026 - 19:30 CST	Showmatch		Immortal Cup S2 - Playoffs				1 : 0			7.41b	+ Details
June 6, 2026 - 19:30 CST	Showmatch		Immortal Cup S2 - Playoffs				1 : 0			7.41b	+ Details
June 6, 2026 - 13:00 CST	Showmatch		Immortal Cup S2 - Playoffs				1 : 0			7.41b	+ Details

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.41c
(2026-05-06)

• Rescaled Acid Spray cooldown from 22/21/20/19 to 21 on each level.
• Reduced Chemical Rage health regeneration bonus from 60/90/120 to 50/85/120.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Aghanim's Scepter Synth Greevil's Greed
    • Reduced base gold bonus per granted scepter from 6 to 3.
    • Reduced max gold bonus per granted scepter from 6 to 3.

7.41b
(2026-04-07)

• Reduced base agility from 22 to 19.

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  +1 Acid Spray armor reduction ➜  +1% Corrosive Weaponry movement speed slow/base attack damage reduction per stack.  

  LVL 15  +1% Corrosive Weaponry movement speed slow/base attack damage reduction per stack ➜  +1 Acid Spray armor reduction.

7.41a
(2026-03-28)

• Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
• Reduced Greevil's Greed max gold bonus from 18 to 16.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Aghanim's Scepter Synth self attack damage bonus per stack from 25 to 15.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Alchemist's Relics	Voice Lines
Kills Under Acid Spray Multi-Hero Concoctions Damage During Chemical Rage Aghanims Given Debuffs Purged With Manta Damage With Active Armlet Bounty Rune Taken Radiance Damage Stuns Leading To Kills Channels Cancelled Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Ha ha ha ha ha! ▶️ We've got pretty good chemistry.
	Silver	▶️ That was genius! ▶️ Hey, everybody!
	Gold	▶️ Talk about overreacting. ▶️ I can't believe I'm seeing this with my own eyes!
	Platinum	▶️ What a mess!
	Master	▶️ Failure is just another kind of success. The wrong kind.
	Grandmaster	▶️ I can't feel my legs.

Trivia

• At one point during beta, Alchemist's bio consisted entirely of the following sentence: "Alchemist is named Al and is a chemist."
• Prior to the Diretide even in 2012, Greevil's Greed was named "Goblin's Greed".
• The Ogre's portion of the Caustic Steel cosmetic set may be a reference to Master Blaster from Mad Max: Beyond The Thunderdome, while the Alchemist's armor and hair are most likely a reference to Edward Elric, one of the two main protagonists of Fullmetal Alchemist.
• Acid Spray's ▶️ sound effect has the same reprocessed sound of Oil Platform building from game Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, created by Blizzard.
• ▶️ "Only ninety-eight percent pure?" is a direct reference to AMC's TV series Breaking Bad.
• ▶️ "Greed is good." is a reference to Gordon Gekko's speech in the 1987 film, Wall Street. as well as the actual cheat code from Warcraft III which gives the player gold on single player campaign.
• When activating Haste Rune ▶️ "Run, buddy, run!" may be a reference to Forrest Gump, since sometime in the movie there is a line "Run, Forrest, Run!"
• ▶️ " Better living through alchemy!" is a reference to the phrase "Better Living Through Chemistry", a popular variant of a DuPont advertising slogan which later became a common phrase.
• In Deadlock, the Alchemical Fire item may be inspired by Alchemist with its theme. The item's active ability is also very similar to Acid Spray, both coating a big area, dealing damage per second to enemies within and reducing their resistances against attacks.

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • Alchemist's hero concept is originally based on the Alchemist, a neutral goblin hero.
    • Acid Spray and Acid Bomb are both AoE abilities that deal damage over time and reduce armor, only their targeting is different.
      • Acid Spray conbines the names of Acid Bomb and Healing Spray, which is another Warcraft 3 Alchemist ability.
    • Chemical Rage is identical to the Warcraft 3 Alchemist's Chemical Rage.
    • Greevil's Greed is inspired by the greediness of the Warcraft 3 Alchemist
      • The ultimate ability of the Warcraft 3 Alchemist is Transmute, which is has the same functionality as Hand of Midas.
  • Unstable Concoction's concept is inspired by the Troll Batrider's ability of the same name, Unstable Concoction.
  • Alchemist's name, Razzil Darkbrew, combines two of six different names the Alchemist in Warcraft 3 can spawn with.
    • The first name is taken from Razzil Naypolm, while the last name is based on Ezzel Darkbrewer.

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  Early beta portrait
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  Ability icon progress
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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive
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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead
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  Monster Hunter Hero Atlas Illustration