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Alchemist · Carry (pos. 1)

Alchemist in Turbo

TurboData-drivenMediumPatch 7.41
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Overview

Turbo is regular Dota sped up: more gold and experience, faster respawns and a quicker courier. Games are shorter, so early fights matter more and the late game comes sooner. Turbo speeds everything up — more gold, faster respawns — so skip the long farming phase, rush Radiance and join fights much earlier than in a normal match.

Strengths

  • Reliable stun: Unstable Concoction sets up kills and interrupts enemy channels.
  • Heavy magical burst: Valve lists it as a Nuker.
  • Scales into a late-game threat as the items come in.

Weaknesses

  • No escape in the kit: without good positioning and vision, Alchemist is easy to catch.
  • Low base armor (0): vulnerable to physical harass early on.

Build cheat sheet

Pick the build that fits what you want to do this game.

Builds

Turbo build

OffensiveTurbo
Open build

When to use it

Turbo gives more gold and faster respawns: skip most laning items and go straight for your core, then the damage items.

Where it's played

Picked before the game: the main lane first, then the alternatives.

Seen from RadiantRadiant · bottom leftDire · top right
  1. Safe laneMain70% of matchesSafe lane as the farming core (pos. 1).
  2. MidPriority 216% of matchesMid lane, one against one (pos. 2).
  3. OfflanePriority 314% of matchesOff lane as the space-making core (pos. 3).

Starting items

Gauntlets of StrengthIron BranchQuelling Blade

Core items

  1. 1Radiance
  2. 2Blink Dagger
  3. 3Black King Bar
  4. 4Aghanim's Scepter

Boots

Phase Boots

Late game

Armlet of MordiggianMjollnirMaelstrom

Skill order

Max order:Acid Spray›Corrosive Wea…›Unstable Conc…

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Talents by level

  1. +50 Chemical Rage Regeneration
    +50 Chemical Rage Movement Speed
    25
  2. -0.1s Chemical Rage Base Attack Time
    +400 Unstable Concoction Max Damage
    20
  3. +1 Acid Spray Armor Reduction
    Greevil's Greed provides +3 Damage per stack
    15
  4. +150 Unstable Concoction Radius
    +1% Corrosive Weaponry Slow / Damage Reduction Per Stack
    10

Abilities

  • Acid Spray21s120 mpSprays high-pressure acid across a target area. Enemy units who step across the contaminated terrain take damage per second and have their armor reduced.
    Radius
    350·400·450·500
    Duration
    15
    Damage per second
    25·30·35·40
    Armor reduction
    3·4·5·6
  • Unstable Concoction17s100 mpAlchemist 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 Alch
    Max stun
    1.7·2.2·2.7·3.2
    Max damage
    150·220·290·360
    Explosion radius
    250
    Move speed bonus
    4·8·12·16
    Basic ability — applies a stun and hits an area. Save it for priority targets or to interrupt a channel.
  • Corrosive WeaponryPassiveAlchemist 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.
    Max stacks
    7·10·13·16
    Debuff duration
    4
    Movement slow per stack
    2.5·3·3.5·4
    Base attack damage reduction per stack
    2.5·3·3.5·4
  • Berserk Potion35s100 mpAlchemist throws a potion at an ally, applying a basic dispel and giving them attack speed, movement speed and HP regen. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
    Duration
    15
    Attack speed
    50
    Hp regen
    40
    Move speed
    30
  • Greevil's GreedPassiveAlchemist 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.
    Recent kill window
    40
    Base bonus gold
    2
    Extra bonus gold
    2
    Bounty rune multiplier
    2
    Max bonus gold per kill
    16
  • Chemical Rage60s50 / 75 / 100 mpAlchemist causes his Ogre to enter a chemically induced rage, reducing base attack cooldown and increasing movement speed and health regeneration. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
    Duration
    30
    Base attack time
    1.2·1.1·1
    Bonus health regen
    50·85·120
    Bonus move speed
    20·30·40
    Ultimate — heals. Time it for the enemy's burst, not for chip damage.
  • Unstable Concoction ThrowThrow it before it blows up!

Most played skill order

The most played order in the last 99 professional matches with this hero. Highlighted levels are the points spent on talents.

Max order:Acid Spray›Corrosive Wea…›Unstable Conc…

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Strategy

1What changes

Turbo is regular Dota sped up: more gold and experience, faster respawns and a quicker courier. Games are shorter, so early fights matter more and the late game comes sooner.

2Build adjustments

Turbo gives more gold and faster respawns: skip most laning items and go straight for your core, then the damage items.

3Fighting

Walk in after the enemy has used their key disables and hit whatever you can reach safely: your survival is the fight. Turbo speeds everything up — more gold, faster respawns — so skip the long farming phase, rush Radiance and join fights much earlier than in a normal match.

Tips

  • Turbo speeds everything up — more gold, faster respawns — so skip the long farming phase, rush Radiance and join fights much earlier than in a normal match.
  • Use Chemical Rage in every big fight: in this mode there's always another one coming.
  • Don't chase alone: the enemy is always grouped.
  • Buy your core items first: in Turbo you get them much earlier.

Changelog

  1. Guide created for patch 7.41.

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