Batching sprites and particles?

Unity Engine
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I got this character with 2 ball of fires in both hands.
the fire was made with particle system with one blue fire texture.
the rest of the character was made in 1 texture.
this total character cost 6 drawcalls.
this is just too expensive for one character purely because it can’t be batched into 1 drawcall.
I can make the 2 textures into 1 texture and use the same material. but the particle system just won’t get along with sprites.
is there some way that i can use the particle system to shoot sprites exactly like the character sprites with
a sprite component?
so they can be batched into one drawcall?
if can be done, it will be great help!!

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2

First how much drawcalls when you hide the character sprite?
If some particles are getting behind the character, it will be treated as a separate drawcall from the particles before the character.

3

Indeed different types of object cannot be batched together. But I would expect you could get this down to 2 draw calls.