Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026
- - Alchemical Fire: Damage per Second spirit scaling increased from 0.152 to 0.2
- - Ballistic Enhancement: Now upgrades from Mystic Expansion
- - Ballistic Enhancement: Ability Range increased from +20% to +22%
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Alchemical Fire
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
51.02%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
394,755
API matches field
Players in sample
148,564
API players field
Average buy time
22.6m
Minutes into a match
Sample: 2026-09-17 through 2026-10-16 UTC · Normal mode, ranked + unranked, all ranks. Retrieved . Deadlock API. Observed matches only; not the entire player population. Refreshes hourly; upstream item statistics may be cached for six hours.
Item statistics are observational. Winning players buy different items, and later purchases select for longer matches. Do not interpret purchase win rate as the causal effect of buying this item.
The paper trail
Alchemical Fire patch history
Every explicitly attributed change found in the 26 available archive entries. This is the available archive, not a claim of complete lifetime coverage. Linked-only announcements may omit change text.
Gameplay Update - 04-30-2026
- - Alchemical Fire: Spirit Power increased from +8 to +10
12-06-2024 Update
- - Alchemical Fire: Spirit Power reduced from 11 to 7.
- - Alchemical Fire: Added alternate desaturated variant for friendly versions of this.
11-07-2024 Update
- - Alchemical Fire: Now grants +1 Sprint.