Alchemist — win rate, matchups and best allies

Popular builds

A build is the first three key items a player bought, in any order, shown in the most common buying order. Win rate and how often it is played are shown under each, from matches with item timings.

Top 5 builds cover 42% of games that reach three key items

Selected build

Radiance → Blink Dagger → Black King Bar · 413 games · win rate 46.5%

Everything below follows the selected build.

Full build

From the starting items to the late game, in this build's games with the filters above. Each phase shows up to 3 combinations with win rate, games and share of the build's games; the most played is highlighted.

Most common path

1 · Starting items

0:00

54.6%141 · 34%
63.0%27 · 7%
35.0%20 · 5%

Bought before the horn.

2 · Early game

before the 1st key item

51.3%119 · 29%
44.0%84 · 20%
37.1%35 · 8%

Finished items only: no components, consumables or Aghanim's Shard. Any order; shown in the most common one.

3 · Core

first 3 key items

48.3%375 · 91%
31.4%35 · 8%

The build itself, in its most common buying orders.

4 · Late game

next 3 items after the core

48.1%106 · 26%
49.3%69 · 17%
34.0%50 · 12%

Any order, shown in the most common one. A game counts if it reached at least one of the items.

Situational items

Bought in at least 5% of this build's games and not on the most common path, sorted by win-rate change.

Overwhelming Blink7% of games · ~40:01+28.8 pts
Aghanim's Scepter27% of games · ~37:17+26.9 pts
Swift Blink18% of games · ~40:19+22.2 pts
Aghanim's Shard12% of games · ~40:34+15.2 pts
Abyssal Blade28% of games · ~38:17+12.5 pts
Manta Style10% of games · ~33:10+12.0 pts
Sange34% of games · ~36:11+11.6 pts
Yasha16% of games · ~30:24+11.1 pts

Win-rate change: win rate of the build's games with the item minus without it, in percentage points. At least 30 games on each side.

Skill order, levels 1–25

59.6% · 94 games with this order

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Acid Spray		2	3		5		7
Unstable Concoction	1			4				8	9
Corrosive Weaponry										10		12		14	15
Chemical Rage						6							13					18
Talent											T					T				T					T
Attributes																	17		19		21	22	23	24

The most common order. Games count if they followed it for as long as they lasted, from 10 points on. Gold numbers: the levels where an ultimate point or a talent usually comes. T: a talent is taken here; the tree shows which.

Talents

+50 Chemical Rage Regeneration

36% · 46.8% · 77

+50 Chemical Rage Movement Speed

64% · 65.7% · 134

+400 Unstable Concoction Max Damage

17% · 57.9% · 57

-0.1s Chemical Rage Base Attack Time

83% · 51.2% · 281

Greevil's Greed provides +3 Damage per stack

86% · 47.3% · 355

+1 Acid Spray Armor Reduction

14% · 42.9% · 56

+150 Unstable Concoction Radius

72% · 48.0% · 300

+1% Corrosive Weaponry Slow / Damage Reduction Per Stack

28% · 43.0% · 114

+2 to All Attributes · levels 17, 19, 21–24

Numbers from the games of this build. Under each talent: how often it is picked, win rate, games. ★ the higher win rate we are 95% sure of, with at least 30 games on each side. Bar: how often each side is picked.

Neutral items

45.3% · 810

54.1% · 488

43.7% · 485

43.3% · 409

62.0% · 163

32.7% · 153

When to buy

Win rate depending on when the item was bought (first purchase, 5-minute windows). Earlier is usually better — this shows by how much.

Radiance~17:00

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	2
10–15 min	▲ 58.7%	940
15–20 min	▼ 42.9%	1,396
20–25 min	▼ 31.8%	255
25–30 min	▼ 39.3%	56
30–35 min	▲ 51.6%	31
35–40 min	▲ 59.3%	27
40–45 min	▲ 71.4%	7
45–50 min	▲ 62.5%	8
50–55 min	▲ 100.0%	1
55–60 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 58.8% wins; later: 41.9%.

Blink Dagger~23:43

5–10 min	▼ 44.4%	9
10–15 min	▲ 61.8%	123
15–20 min	▲ 53.8%	924
20–25 min	▼ 44.8%	649
25–30 min	▼ 41.1%	275
30–35 min	▲ 54.5%	235
35–40 min	▲ 65.5%	171
40–45 min	▲ 64.3%	84
45–50 min	▲ 72.2%	36
50–55 min	▲ 70.0%	10
55–60 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 20:00: 54.6% wins; later: 50.1%.

Aghanim's Scepter~23:17

5–10 min	▼ 33.3%	3
10–15 min	▲ 60.9%	258
15–20 min	▲ 53.7%	737
20–25 min	▼ 48.3%	652
25–30 min	▼ 48.5%	266
30–35 min	▲ 56.8%	155
35–40 min	▲ 60.2%	108
40–45 min	▲ 57.5%	80
45–50 min	▼ 47.2%	36
50–55 min	▲ 60.9%	23
55–60 min	▼ 33.3%	6
60–65 min	▲ 50.0%	4
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 20:00: 55.5% wins; later: 50.9%.

Black King Bar~31:07

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	2
15–20 min	▲ 72.1%	43
20–25 min	▲ 51.7%	327
25–30 min	▼ 47.5%	459
30–35 min	▼ 42.6%	357
35–40 min	▲ 51.9%	233
40–45 min	▲ 60.6%	127
45–50 min	▲ 56.9%	58
50–55 min	▲ 60.0%	25
55–60 min	▲ 85.7%	7
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 50.4% wins; later: 49.9%.

Yasha~25:09

10–15 min	▲ 56.5%	23
15–20 min	▲ 57.1%	275
20–25 min	▲ 50.1%	365
25–30 min	▼ 46.1%	193
30–35 min	▼ 45.8%	118
35–40 min	▲ 62.9%	70
40–45 min	▲ 57.9%	38
45–50 min	▲ 70.6%	17
50–55 min	▲ 83.3%	6
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	2

Bought before 25:00: 53.2% wins; later: 50.9%.

Assault Cuirass~33:28

10–15 min	▲ 100.0%	1
15–20 min	▲ 71.4%	14
20–25 min	▲ 70.3%	118
25–30 min	▲ 61.8%	262
30–35 min	▲ 61.4%	290
35–40 min	▲ 62.9%	205
40–45 min	▲ 66.4%	107
45–50 min	▲ 66.0%	53
50–55 min	▲ 88.5%	26
55–60 min	▲ 80.0%	5
60–65 min	▼ 40.0%	5
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 64.8% wins; later: 63.8%.

Sange~32:15

5–10 min	▼ 0.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	14
15–20 min	▲ 61.0%	105
20–25 min	▲ 55.4%	157
25–30 min	▼ 49.4%	160
30–35 min	▲ 58.3%	187
35–40 min	▲ 58.8%	170
40–45 min	▲ 58.3%	108
45–50 min	▲ 59.0%	61
50–55 min	▲ 69.0%	29
55–60 min	▲ 66.7%	12
60–65 min	▼ 40.0%	5
65–70 min	▲ 66.7%	3

Bought before 30:00: 54.2% wins; later: 59.1%.

Skull Basher~34:45

10–15 min	▲ 100.0%	2
15–20 min	▲ 66.7%	12
20–25 min	▲ 57.1%	84
25–30 min	▲ 59.5%	173
30–35 min	▼ 47.8%	247
35–40 min	▲ 59.1%	171
40–45 min	▲ 50.9%	110
45–50 min	▲ 71.6%	67
50–55 min	▲ 55.6%	27
55–60 min	▲ 63.6%	11
60–65 min	▼ 25.0%	4
65–70 min	▲ 66.7%	3

Bought before 30:00: 59.4% wins; later: 54.4%.