Introduction

Arachyr Angry Chicken Solo Push
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Back in Season 22 Manajuma's Way was buffed to launch mini-Chickens that blow up for 25% damage as well as the set receiving a 1,600% damage buff! Spirit of Arachyr was also buffed from 9,000% to a tremendous 25,000%!

In Season 29 the build finally became more than a meme, being heavily buffed with changes to Manajuma's Way Set and a rework of Cluckeye. The build skyrocketed to one of the best Witch Doctor builds out there!

In farming content, High Cooldown Reduction combined with Captain Crimson's Trimmings and Grave Injustice allows you to fly from Elite to Elite in an instant while switching into your Angry Chicken form whenever you need to. Once stacked up it's so fast that it can be almost hard to control and who doesn't see the fun in that! Unfortunately, Season 30 crushed the potential of the build, cutting by more than half the (6) Bonus damage multiplier.

This build is an Area Damage (AD) build, since Hex Angry Chicken and all the chickens spawned by Cluckeye can proc it. This build develops a completely unique playstyle where you need to manage your timings very carefully to wreak havoc on your opponents. This guide goes over everything you need to know about how to manage your own Chicken army!

High Mobility ✔
One-of-a-Kind Playstyle ✔
Good Damage Reduction ✔
You're Literally a Chicken ✔

❌ Sensitive to Fishing
❌ Limited Gearing Choices
❌ Chickens do not stack Stricken
❌ Requires Enforcer for Pet Survivability

Core Setup

Core Item Build

Items

Spirit of Arachyr (4) Bonus and (6) Bonus are what you're interested in as they give 75% damage reduction from the Web and a 11,500% damage multiplier for your Hex Angry Chicken.
Guardian's Jeopardy gives a massive Damage boost from main stat.
Manajuma's Way is the heart of the build and it gives Hex Angry Chicken 2000% increased Damage, a 15 second duration, 100% increased Movement Speed, chain reaction explosions from your detonation and spawns mini-Chickens.
Cluckeye is a massive damage multiplier for the build.
Lakumba's Ornament is used for its massive damage reduction buff.
Ring of Royal Grandeur is required to utilize both Spirit of Arachyr and Guardian's Jeopardy.

Global Stat Priorities

Our offensive priorities are: Critical Hit Chance & Damage > Poison Damage > Area Damage. For speedfarming, Cooldown Reduction takes the place of AD instead. Attack Speed and Resource Cost Reduction aren't important on this build so you can focus on Intelligence and Vitality more. You unfortunately don't have any Crowd Control immunity on a Witch Doctor so try to roll at least 1-2 Crowd Control Reduction Secondary Stats on your Helm or Jewelry.

Assembling the build

Item Stat Priorities

Gems

Skills

Passives

Paragon Points

Follower

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25,000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10,000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

With these in mind, let’s get into our recommendations for this build.

T16 Enchantress

For T16 we recommend this Enchantress setup because she is the only follower that gives Cooldown Reduction, allowing you to spam your abilities more. Since this is T16 content, she’ll stay alive with Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard and use Hand of the Prophet to gain all skills. This will give us Cooldown Reduction, Elemental Damage, Reduced Damage from Ranged Attacks, Armor, Attack Speed, and a Cheat Death.

Stat Priorities:

Since we do not have the immortality focus, we need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.

Intelligence > Vitality > Life % > Armor > All Resistance > Life Per Hit > Attack Speed.

Key Items:

The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
Nemesis Bracers: For extra Elites, Death’s Breaths and In-geom procs.
Avarice Band: For the insane pickup radius.
Ring of Royal Grandeur: To complete our sets.
Gloves of Worship: For 10 Minute Shrine Buffs.
Sage’s Journey: For double Death’s Breaths.
Cain’s Destiny: For 25% more Greater Rift Keystones.

Gameplay

When you enter a Greater Rift, start off by using Spirit Walk to run towards enemies and use Soul Harvest. Never let it drop!
Start to gather several screens of monsters with Locust Swarm and Spirit Barrage which will also proc Fetishes that turn into Chicken.
Wait for Poison cycle on Convention of Elements to release the explosion.
Keep in mind that your explosions trigger a chain reaction when enemies die, so making sure there is a decent amount of trash around an Elite before detonating is crucial to killing them in one shot.
After detonating on a pack, one of two things will be the result; either everything around you will be dead or you'll have some Trash / Elite still alive.
If everything around is dead and there are no enemies to get buffs from, you can use Spirit Walk to quickly find some enemies to cast Soul Harvest on before going back into Angry Chicken and finding the next Elite pack. If it's going to cost you several seconds to slowly walk to find an enemy in a Sewer, Cave or other terrible map, just cast Spirit Walk before Angry Chicken and get to the next pack ASAP.
If post detonation there are many enemies alive, cast Piranhado to gather everything around any Elites that you didn't kill, especially on to an Oculus Ring circle as there should be one from the previous carnage. Recast your buffs then blast them away with another explosion! The explosion from Angry Chicken has a surprisingly small area of effect so make sure you're getting very close to Elites before detonating.
You'll notice against high HP Elites or Rift Guardians that your damage falls off significantly, due to the lack of chain reactions and Area Damage. We have our mini-Chickens but they do little damage so don't count on them helping out here either. Evade attacks as much as possible while waiting for the CoE cycle to gain the maximum benefit of Squirt's Necklace and be prepared for Rift Guardians to require a few explosions to take down.
None of your abilities besides Spirit Barrage Manitou stacks Bane of the Stricken very well, so make sure to cast it once every cycle and keep the boss in range as you fly around it.
Keep your buffs up and keep moving!

Hardcore

Variants

Nephalem Rifts

GR Solo Speeds

GR Solo Push

Arachyr Angry Chicken Solo T16

Concept
The goal of this build is to be one of the fastest ones around to farm Bounties and Greater Rift Keys. You take advantage of this builds feast and famine playstyle by hunting down Elites and large groups of enemies as an Angry Chicken then blowing them to pieces in an instant once you arrive. With a focus on Cooldown Reduction and Movement Speed you're able to get right back into Angry Chicken form and get to the next pack in an instant.

Gameplay
Similar to the main variant, but more laid back. Keep your Soul Harvest stacks up. Use Horrify and Spirit Walk to get insane Movement Speed buffs and sprint from Elite to Elite as an Angry Chicken. Cast Piranhado to gather everything up around any Elites that you don't kill in the first blast, then rinse and repeat!

Setups
In groups, repalce St. Archew's Gage with Nemesis Bracers to spawn extra Elites.

Arachyr Angry Chicken Solo Speeds

Concept
You can utilize this build quite well in solo Greater rifts. This really is an insanely fast build so this can be useful to upgrade very low Legendary Gems until you reach your ceiling.

Gameplay
Playing in speed Greater Rifts should feel exactly like your T16 play with the exception that now you don't have to pick up any items or materials from the ground so you can focus on moving forward at all times! You'll be a bit stronger with this build and can time your Angry Chicken Explosions with your Poison cycle on the Convention of Elements for a 200% damage buff. For extra damage, also apply Locust Swarm for Ring of Emptiness when possible. When played right you can really blast Elites with this and clear GRs in around 90-120 seconds consistently.

Setups
For better survivability, use Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard instead of Enforcer or Bane of the Powerful.

Arachyr Angry Chicken Solo Push

Concept
Spirit of Arachyr uses the amazing pull from Piranhas Piranhado and combines it with Hex Angry Chicken for massive damage explosions.

Gameplay
Keep up your Soul Harvest and use Spirit Walk to skip bad map layouts, dodge attacks and projectiles. DoT up enemies with your Locust Swarm to ensure the damage buff from Ring of Emptiness is active. Cast Piranhas Piranhado to group up enemies. For a step-by-step gameplay description on how you should sequence your skills, check out the "Gameplay" section above.

Setups
You can swap Piranhas Piranhado for Wall of Death Wall of Zombies to push monsters forward and pack them if you prefer.

For extra damage, you can replace Spirit Walk with Haunt Poisoned Haunt but beware: In large pulls you need to aim precisely on Elites and other valuable targets to get a benefit out of it because you want to spend most of the time in Chicken form.

Video Guide

Mechanics

Goldwrap - Avarice Band - Boon of the Hoarder

Manajuma's Way

Gruesome Feast

Summary

Cast Soul Harvest Languish at the start of every Rift or Bounty for the Damage Reduction bonus and keep it up.
Use Spirit Barrageand Locust Swarm to aggro monsters and spawn Fetish Sycophants.
Use Spirit Walk between your Angry Chicken Explosions and make sure that you are maintaining your Soul Harvest stacks as these provide Damage and Movement Speed.
Sprint from Elite to Elite as an Angry Chicken and cast Piranhado to gather everything up around any Elites that you don't kill in one blast.
Rinse and repeat!

Credits

Written by Facefoot & Chewingnom.
Contributions by wudijo.

SLOT	ITEM	STAT PRIORITY
Main-Hand	Manajuma's Carving Knife Cluckeye (Cubed)	1. Damage Range 2. Socket Ramaladni's Gift 3. Area Damage 4. Damage % 5. Intelligence
Off-Hand	Manajuma's Gory Fetch	1. Damage Range 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Area Damage 4. Intelligence
Helm	Arachyr's Visage Guardian's Gaze (Crafted)	1. Socket Flawless Royal Diamond 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Intelligence 4. Vitality 5. Life % 6. Armor
Gloves	Arachyr's Claws St. Archew's Gage	1. Critical Hit Chance 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Area Damage 4. Intelligence
Shoulders	Arachyr's Mantle	1. Area Damage 2. Cooldown Reduction 3. Intelligence 4. Vitality 5. Armor 6. Life %
Chest	Arachyr's Carapace Aquila Cuirass (Cubed)	1. Sockets Flawless Royal Topaz 2. Intelligence 3. Vitality 4. Armor 5. Elite Damage Reduction
Pants	Arachyr's Legs	1. Intelligence 2. Vitality 3. Armor 4. Sockets Flawless Royal Topaz
Boots	Arachyr's Stride	1. Intelligence 2. Vitality 3. Armor 4. All Resistance 5. Movement Speed
Ring1	Ring of Emptiness	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Critical Hit Chance 4. Area Damage 5. Intelligence
Ring 2	Avarice Band (A3 Bounties) Convention of Elements Ring of Royal Grandeur (A1 Bounties, Cubed)	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Critical Hit Chance 4. Area Damage 5. Intelligence
Bracers	Lakumba's Ornament Warzechian Armguards Nemesis Bracers Guardian's Aversion (Crafted)	1. Poison Damage 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Intelligence 4. Vitality 5. Armor
Amulet	Squirt's Necklace	1. Socket 2. Poison Damage 3. Critical Hit Damage 4. Critical Hit Chance 5. Intelligence
Belt	Guardian's Case (Crafted) Goldwrap (Cubed)	1. Intelligence 2. Vitality 3. Armor 4. Life % 5. All Resistance
Potion	Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid	For breaking walls if you get trapped!

Core	Offensive	Defensive	Utility
1. Movement Speed	1. Critical Hit Damage	1. Armor	1. Area Damage
2. Intelligence	2. Critical Hit Chance	2. Life %	2. Pickup Radius
3. Vitality	3. Cooldown Reduction	3. All Resistance	3. Life Per Hit
4. Maximum Mana	4. Attack Speed	4. Life Per Second	4. Resource Cost Reduction

Arachyr Angry Chicken Witch Doctor Guide