Alchemical Fire, weapon item

Weapon item · tier 3 · 3,200 souls · active

Alchemical Fire stats, win rate and best heroes

Throw a flask that explodes on contact, creating an area that does increasing spirit damage per second and reduces enemy Bullet Resist. 50% less effective vs non-heroes.

Agrade

Win rate

51.8%

8 of 46 at tier 3

Against its tier

+1.2

points; tier avg 50.6%

Bought by

1.0%

of players

Bought at

~23:16

average

Cost

3,200

souls

Bought in

170.6k

player games, 7 days

The read on Alchemical Fire

Alchemical Fire is a tier 3 weapon item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 96 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 51.8% of those games: 8th of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.6%.

It's usually bought around 23 minutes. Players who bought it before 16 minutes won 54.3%; those who bought it from 29 minutes on won 47.9%.

Sinclair (9% of games), Paige (8% of games) and Ivy (8% of games) buy it most often.

What Alchemical Fire does

Stats

Spirit Power
10

Active

Throw a flask that explodes on contact, creating an area that does increasing spirit damage per second and reduces enemy Bullet Resist.

50% less effective vs non-heroes.

Damage Per Second
45
Bullet Resist
-7%
Max DPS
95
Radius
10m
Duration
5s
Cooldown
30s

From the game's own tooltip, as of 5 Nov.

Win rate by the minute it's bought

40%45%50%55%9m14m19m24m29m34m39m44m49m

Each point is every player who bought Alchemical Fire in that minute of the game. Earlier buyers usually win more: getting a big item early means a player is already ahead, so read this as when it's bought, not what it does.

Heroes who buy Alchemical Fire

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Sinclair9% of games45.5%~21:57Sinclair build →
Paige8% of games56.4%~20:40Paige build →
Ivy8% of games54.7%~21:56Ivy build →
Baba8% of games59.2%~28:25Baba build →
Holliday5% of games48.2%~24:17Holliday build →
The Doorman4% of games46.8%~24:25The Doorman build →
Paradox4% of games49.5%~21:22Paradox build →
Vindicta3% of games49.7%~20:42Vindicta build →
Solomon2% of games45.8%~25:11Solomon build →
Rem1% of games46.6%~24:34Rem build →

The heroes whose players buy Alchemical Fire most often, with the win rate in those games.

Alchemical Fire in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 22 May 20261 change

    • Damage per Second spirit scaling increased from 0.152 to 0.2
  2. 30 April 20261 change

    • Spirit Power increased from +8 to +10
  3. 6 December 20242 changes

    • Spirit Power reduced from 11 to 7.
    • Added alternate desaturated variant for friendly versions of this.
  4. 7 November 20241 change

    • Now grants +1 Sprint.

Valve's notes from their posts on Steam, newest first.

Standard ranked and unranked matches from 29 Oct to 5 Nov, via deadlock-api. Updated 5 Nov.