IIIAlchemical Fire
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.
How Alchemical Fire is performing now
Durability and resistance
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.
Alchemical Fire functions as durability and resistance within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is surviving a defined damage pattern or control window long enough to keep contributing. Because it is a core mid-to-late purchase, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 3,200 souls could complete.
When Alchemical Fire belongs in the build
- Alchemical Fire's protection matches the damage or control that is deciding fights.
- Living through the first enemy commitment lets your kit deliver a second meaningful action.
- Your team needs you to hold space rather than trade your life for a single cast.
- The enemy threat profile does not match the protection described by the item.
- Poor positioning, not insufficient durability, is causing most deaths.
- More health would only delay a loss without creating damage, control, or an escape opportunity.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Alchemical Fire is a core mid-to-late purchase at 3,200 souls. Judge it against the next fight and the purchases it delays, not only against its isolated tooltip value.
Lock Lab has not received a reliable current sample for Alchemical Fire yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 3,200-soul price point. Imbue an ability with increased range . Dealing damage with that ability grants you increased weapon damage per unique hero…
COMPARE ITEM →BerserkerIt occupies the same 3,200-soul price point. Your Weapon Damage increases as you take sustained damage.
COMPARE ITEM →Blood TributeIt occupies the same 3,200-soul price point. Toggle: Continually sacrifice Health to improve fire rate , Debuff Resistance and Move Speed .
COMPARE ITEM →How Alchemical Fire has changed
- Damage per Second spirit scaling increased from 0.152 to 0.2
- Spirit Power increased from +8 to +10
Alchemical Fire in Deadlock builds
Item strength depends on hero kit, purchase timing, lobby rank, and the current patch. Use the hero pages below to compare this item against complete build paths instead of treating a single item as universally optimal.
Transparent reference, original analysis
Live performance and purchase timing come from community-indexed match records. Lock Lab's rates, comparison windows, confidence labels, and hero-affinity analysis are original calculations—not official Valve recommendations.
VIEW ANALYTICS SOURCE ↗Current-patch all-ranks sample · refreshed automatically