Alchemist

Alchemist

The Radiant

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Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 625 1176 1822 Mana 325 702 1144 Damage 49-58 78-87 112-121 Armor 1.54 4.34 8.26 Attacks / Second 0.65 0.77 0.93

Movement Speed 295 Turn Rate 0.6 Sight Range 1800/1400 Attack Range Melee Missile Speed Instant Attack Duration 0.35+0.65 Cast Duration 0.4+0.5 Base Attack Time 1.7

Razzil Darkbrew the Alchemist is a melee strength hero who utilises his alchemical prowess as a versatile but strange fighter. He is an unusual carry based upon transmuting fallen enemies into large amounts of bonus gold, with both an early game and late game presence due to his large health pool and the first strike nature of his spells. His balanced statistics and the sure promise of gold for items means he can be one of the most disparately built heroes in the game.

Unstable Concoction is his main contribution early on, dealing good damage and a lengthy stun. Acid Spray allows him to rapidly clear waves of creeps for his Greevil's Greed to contribute massive amounts of extra income. A well-equipped Alchemist can then use Chemical Rage to its fullest effect, as the extra health, incredible regeneration, and base attack time reduction make it one of the best steroid abilities in the game.

Bio

Razzil Darkbrew, the Alchemist Play "I'm the brains!" "And I'm the brawn!" Role: Durable / Carry / Disabler 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)

Abilities

Acid Spray Q D Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Composite Sprays high-pressure acid across a target area. Enemy units who step across the contaminated terrain take composite damage per second and have their armor reduced. Range: 900 Radius: 625 Duration: 16 Damage Per Second: 14/20/26/32 Armor Reduction: 3/4/5/6 22 130/140/150/160 Using traditional Alchemy from the Darkbrew family, Razzil concocts an acid that dissolves even the toughest metals.

Notes: Mechanical units suffer the armor reduction but do not take the composite damage.

Unstable Concoction W E Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemy Heroes Physical Alchemist brews up an unstable concoction that he can throw at an enemy hero, to stun and deal damage. The longer the concoction brews, the more damage it deals and the longer the target is stunned. After 5 seconds, the brew reaches its maximum damage and stun time. However, after 7 seconds, the concoction will explode on Alchemist himself if not thrown. Unstable Concoction always affects a 175 area around where it explodes, including when it explodes on Alchemist. Range: 775 Maximum Stun Duration: 1.75/2.5/3.25/4 Maximum Damage: 150/220/290/360 16 120 A silver lining to the failure of turning a mountain into gold, this volatile solution has destructive potential.

Notes: Alchemist casts to begin brewing and the spell then becomes usable while the brew increases in potency. Alchemist can still take actions while the spell is active. A timer above Alchemist's head will indicate the remaining brew time. (This timer cannot be seen by enemies). Maximum effects will be achieved after 5 seconds brewing time. It will blow up if charged for more than 7 seconds without throwing, checked at 0.5 second intervals (allowing up to 7.5 seconds brew time) The concoction moves at 900 speed, and provides 400/400 sight range. If the concoction explodes mid air, it will affect one enemy unit within 175 radius around its position. Magic immunity blocks the effect of the spell when it is cast on Alchemist as normal. If the Alchemist is affected by crowd control effects, the concoction will continue to be brewed, and can still explode and stun the Alchemist. If Alchemist dies while brewing, Unstable Concoction will explode on the spot where he dies. Alchemist can commit suicide using Unstable Concotion. This counts as a deny, and will not award gold to any enemies. Can be cast on heroes who are magic immune - damage goes through, stun does not.

Throw Unstable Concoction W E Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemy Heroes Physical Throw it before it blows up! If activated after throw, only the stun is blocked. Otherwise full block. Only if holder is target.

Greevil's Greed E G Ability Affects Passive Self Alchemist gets bonus gold for killing creeps; the bonus stacks if the creeps are killed within a period of time, after which the count is reset. The bonus gold is capped at 30 gold. Duration: 25 Bonus Gold Per Kill: 1/2/3/4 Base Bonus Gold: 4/6/8/10 While it is not a mountain, Razzil has mastered the conversion of smaller compounds to line his pockets.

Notes: Also works on hero kills. Counter increases from denies, but denies don't give bonus gold.

Chemical Rage R R Ability Affects No Target Self Alchemist causes his Ogre to enter a chemically induced rage, reducing base attack cooldown and increasing movement speed, HP and regeneration. Duration: 25 Bonus Attack Speed (Base Attack Time): 1.4/1.2/1.0 BAT Bonus HP: 300/600/900 Bonus Health Regeneration: 15/30/60 Bonus Mana Regeneration: 3/7.5/12 Bonus Move Speed: 30/40/60 45 50/100/150 The brew Razzil gave to the Ogre during their prison bust has become a useful potion in the midst of combat.

Notes: Has a 0.35 seconds transformation time. You can dodge projectiles and abilities while transforming.

Tips

• An early point in Greevil's Greed will significantly increase Alchemist's income.
• Smart opponents will make it difficult to land Unstable Concoction by juking and avoiding your vision, causing the backfire. It may be better to use it immediately when an enemy reaches the treeline, even if you lose damage and stun duration.
• Use Acid Spray to dissuade enemies from defending their towers, or pushing into yours.
• Feel free to use Chemical Rage for its healing effects; it will even regenerate its own mana cost over the duration!
• Avoid skirmishes if your Chemical Rage is on cooldown, especially in the early/mid-game stage when you have few items.
• If you are in tight spot and nowhere to run with low HP especially without Town Portal Scrolls or Boots of Travel, use Unstable Concotion to commit suicide if possible.
• Chemical Rage is the strongest DPS booster in the game (giving a 70% boost in DPS at level 3). This means that Alchemist scales very strongly with damage items, however at the same time Alchemist does very little damage without damage items. This means if Alchemist is going to contribute into team battles, its imperative to get damage items

Trivia

• At one point during beta, Alchemist's bio consisted entirely of the following sentence: "Alchemist is named Al and is a chemist. "
• Alchemist's third skill name remained unchanged from its DotA counterpart until after the Diretide event, when it was changed into "Greevil's Greed."
• Alchemist has the lowest overall stat growth of any hero in game (+4.8 per level)

Update history

February 07, 2013 Patch

• Fixed Unstable Concoction AOE and Self impact behavior when there is a Magic Immune target.

December 19, 2012 Patch

• Unstable Concoction:
  • Fixed charge time counting when it was released rather than impacted
  • Fixed being dodgeable

October 25, 2012 Patch

• Updated vision values on these abilities: Unstable Concoction, Phantasm, Waveform, Storm Hammer, Mirror Image, Spirit Lance, Requiem of Souls, Spectral Dagger, Venomous Gale, Earthbind, Dream Coil, Shackleshot, Wall of Replica, Flamebreak, Deafening Blast, Ghost Ship.

August 02, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Acid Spray negative armor not affecting Siege units.

June 20, 2012 Patch

• Added the following animations for Alchemist:
  • Haste Rune Run
  • Injured Run
  • Victory
  • Spawn
  • Teleport (Start and End)

June 14, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.

May 10, 2012 Patch

• Fixed turn rates for the following heroes: Lifestealer, Alchemist, Clockwerk, Bounty Hunter, Dark Seer, Dazzle, Ancient Apparition, Brewmaster, Chen, Silencer, Lone Druid, Spectre and Spiritbreaker.
• Fixed Unstable Concoction self explosion still stunning you if you are invulnerable.
• Fixed night vision being too small.
• Fixed Unstable Concoction damage being too small.

April 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction and Bounty Hunter's Track being castable on Spirit Bear/Golem.

March 22, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.

March 08, 2012 Patch

• Perf and visual tweaks to Alchemist's Acid Spray.

February 16, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Goblin's Greed's interaction with Aegis.

January 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Unstable Concoction stunning Alchemist when he is magic immune.

December 08, 2011 Patch

• Alchemist's concoction lines are now heard by other players nearby.

December 02, 2011 Patch

• Re-enabled Alchemist.

December 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Chemical Rage not changing his base mana regeneration.
• Fixed Goblin's Greed working on buildings.
• Fixed various delays on his spells.
• Enabled Alchemist in Captain's Mode.
• Fixed Manta Style images not carrying over Chemical Rage buff.

November 17, 2011 Patch

• Added Alchemist!

Balance changelog

6.76

• Unstable Concoction now explodes around you if you are killed while charging it up.
• Greevil's Greed cap increased from 26 to 30.

6.75

• Acid Spray
  • Damage per second increased from 8/16/24/32 to 14/20/26/32.
  • Manacost rescaled from 160 to 130/140/150/160.
• Unstable Concoction
  • Max damage increased from 130/200/270/340 to 150/220/290/360.
  • No longer displays the countdown numbers to enemies.
  • Always affects a 175 area around where it explodes (Includes when it explodes on Alchemist).
• Greevil's Greed
  • Counter duration increased from 20 to 25 seconds.
  • Bonus gold scaling adjusted from 2/4/6/8 + 2 to 4/6/8/10 + 1/2/3/4.
• Chemical Rage Base Attack Time decreased from 1.45/1.3/1.15 to 1.4/1.2/1.0.

6.74

• Base Armor increased from .54 to 1.54.
• Unstable Concoction max damage increased from 120/180/240/300 to 130/200/270/340.

6.73

• Greevil's Greed bonus gold limit increased from 18 to 26.
• Chemical Rage Base Attack Time reduced from 1.45/1.35/1.2 to 1.45/1.3/1.15.

6.71

• Movement speed reduced from 300 to 295.
• Chemical Rage bonus HP reduced from 350/700/1050 to 300/600/900.

6.69

• Unstable Concoction stun duration rescaled from 2.5/3/3.5/4 to 1.75/2.5/3.25/4.

6.68

• Unstable Concoction
  • Manacost increased from 90 to 120.
  • Damage rescaled from 150/200/250/300 to 120/180/240/300.

6.65

• Unstable Concoction reworked:

Razzil brews up an unstable concoction that he can throw at an enemy hero, to stun and deal damage. Once Razzil starts brewing, he can continue for up to 5 seconds. Each second of brewing will increase the potency of the concoction and make Razzil more red. After the 5 seconds, there is a small buffer window. If Razzil does not throw the concoction soon after it will blow up and Razzil himself will suffer as if he was hit by the concoction. Concoction can blow up mid air if fired too late.

Charge Duration: up to 5 seconds

Buffer Duration: 1.5

Damage: Up to 150/200/250/300 (Physical damage type)

Stun: Up to 1/2/3/4 seconds

Cooldown: 16

Manacost: 90

The longer it charges up, the more damage and stun it deals. Listed values are the maximum.

Note: This is hero only target spell. You cannot release it if there isn't a visible target nearby (if you don't release it on time, it explodes on you instead, damage and stunning you). After casting, it builds up for 5 seconds. There is a small buffer duration after that.

Note 2: Alchemist has a red counter that counts down from 5 ontop of his head. Everyone can see this. It will be clear to the enemy when you are charging this.

Not Channeling

Replaced Abilities

Unstable Concoction (Old) W E Ability Affects Damage Channeled Enemy Units Magical CHANNELED - Taking a few moments to shake up some chemical vials, the Alchemist lobs one at the target, stunning and damaging it based on how long he shook it up. Range: 650/750/850/950 Maximum Channel Time: 2/3/4/5 Stun Duration per Second: 1 Damage per Second: 60 16 75 A silver lining to the failure of turning a mountain into gold, this volatile solution has destructive potential.

Notes: The actual projectile cast after channeling has infinite range and will hit the target no matter how far away they are. If the Alchemist is interrupted while channeling he will still cast whatever strength Concoction he has channeled so far. If the target becomes spell immune or invulnerable, they can block or dodge the projectile. Maximum damage is 120/180/240/300 and maximum stun duration is 2/3/4/5

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

See also

• Alchemist responses