Introduction

Sunwuko Solo Push
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Welcome to the Monkey King's Garb Sunwuko Tempest Rush Monk, a brother to the Patterns of Justice Tempest Rush Monk that can devastate enemies in an equal if not more impressive fashion. With the introduction of the Patterns of Justice Set and Won Khim Lau in Season 19, Monkey King's Garb have been buffed with Vengeful Wind now granting 10 additional Sweeping Wind stacks instead of 7.

Meanwhile Patterns of Justice is the set designed around Tempest Rush, Monkey King's Garb (Sunwuko) is performing better overall in push due to a stronger (6) Bonus damage multiplier. However, whenever a season theme offers more Kanai's Cube flexibility such as Season 20 or Season 22, Sunwuko falls behind due to its need for Vengeful Wind and its incapacity to equip Shenlong's Spirit for a massive damage boost.

Anyways a combination of smooth gameplay and devastating damage make this build a very fun and competitive one to go with. Let's go over this monster and push it into the top of the Sunwuko leaderboard!

Spin To Win ✔
Powerful Solo Push ✔
Strong All-Around Build ✔
Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master ✔

❌ Needs Optimized Gear
❌ Weaker In Low Density
❌ Can Be Tough To Survive
❌ Trees and Wormholes Make You Cry

Core Setup

Core Item Build

Items

Sunwuko (2) Bonus gives us 50% damage reduction while Sweeping Wind is active.
Sunwuko (6) Bonus increases the damage of Tempest Rush by 1,500% per stack of Sweeping Wind that you have.
Captain Crimson's Trimmings (2) Bonus gives 20% Cooldown Reduction and Resource Cost Reduction.
Captain Crimson's Trimmings (3) Bonus increases our damage by our Cooldown Reduction percentage and decreases our damage taken by our Resource Cost Reduction percentage.
Vengeful Wind lets our Sweeping Wind stack up to 13 times giving us a tremendous damage boost from the Sunwuko (6) Bonus.
Won Khim Lau gives 600% damage and causes Tempest Rush to cast Cyclone Strike.
Cesar's Memento increases Tempest Rush damage to enemies that are blinded, stunned or frozen by 800%.
Balance gives 600% damage to Tempest Rush and 100% Critical Hit Chance if it hits 3 or less enemies (awesome for killing the Rift Guardian).
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac lets us reset all our cooldowns.
Mantle of Channeling provides 25% damage and damage reduction.
Ring of Royal Grandeur completes our Sunwuko and Captain Crimson Set Bonuses.

Global Stat Priorities

You need to stack 53 or 57% Resource Cost Reduction (RCR) depending on the setup, and about 55% Cooldown Reduction (CDR). Resource Cost Reduction is necessary to keep channeling Tempest Rush all the time, while Cooldown Reduction is needed for permanent Epiphany. Get one or two Life per Hit rolls (Weapons and Bracers) for recovery. Aim to get All Resistance on your Belt, Pants and Boots and Secondary Resistances for Harmony passive on all other pieces. Your offensive priorities are: Cold Damage > Critical Hit Chance > Critical Hit Damage ~ Damage Range > Area Damage > Tempest Rush Damage.

Assembling the Build

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. Gather the full Monkey King's Garb set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If your last missing set piece is Sunwuko's Shines - don't gamble for it! Instead gamble for a cheap and easy item, like Sunwuko's Balance, and once again convert it with Recipe 4. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

The full Monkey King's Garb set
Cesar's Memento
Nemesis Bracers
Goldwrap
Mantle of Channeling

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

Fist Weapons to get Won Khim Lau and Vengeful Wind
Daibos to get Balance
Create a level 1 Demon Hunter and upgrade Swords to get In-Geom
Rings to get Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac and Convention of Elements
Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
Act 2: Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
Act 3: Avarice Band
Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Captain Crimson's Trimmings, Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny

6. At this point you can somewhat comfortably farm Nephalem or Speed Greater Rifts where you can find all the remaining items you need for different variants of the build. It's better to spend your materials improving your set pieces, getting ancient weapon etc.

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

Won Khim Lau
Cesar's Memento
Squirt's Necklace

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.

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Speed GR Enchantress

For speed Greater Rifts 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 speed 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 more progression from Elites.
Oculus Ring: For 85% increased damage.
Ice Climbers: To make your follower immune to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
Hellfire Ring, Leoric's Crown and Cain's Destiny: For more Experience and Attack Speed.

Gameplay

Hardcore

Variants

Nephalem Rifts

GR Solo Speeds

GR Solo Push

T16 Keys

Concept
When it comes to Nephalem Rifts, Sunwuko is inferior in both speed and damage to PoJ Tempest Rush Monk. But it has an advantage of being able to use Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny sets even while playing in groups.

Gameplay
In T16 we just fly from Elite to Elite using In-Geom powered Dashing Strike. Activate Sweeping Wind when you enter the rift, keep Epiphany active and tap Mantra of Healing every 2.5 seconds to protect your Squirt's Necklace buff with a shield.

Setups
If you're playing in groups, drop Captain Crimson's Trimmings and Leoric's Crown for Goldwrap and Sage's Journey, cube Nemesis Bracers and replace Stone of Jordan with Avarice Band. On the Rift Guardian swap Sage's Journey to Cain's Destiny for 25% extra Greater Rift Keystones.

Speed GR Farming

Concept
For Solo XP farming on monk Tempest Rush is always a solid option. It provides high damage with a good amount of speed to farm GR100+ in under 3 minutes on any map. It should be mentioned that the Patterns of Justice Tempest Rush Monk is a slightly stronger version of this, if you're willing to put that together. Here we'll pick up Stone of Jordan which allows us to stack Lightning Damage while playing Flurry.

Gameplay
Use Epiphany every 15 seconds. Keep channeling Tempest Rush at all times and interrupt it briefly to release small explosions on high-HP trash and elites. Even 5-10 stack explosion should be strong enough to kill stuff in speeds. Use Dashing Strike when you need to cover a lot of empty space or jump over the wall.

Setups
At high paragon (5,000+) you can also include Squirt's Necklace by equipping Sunwuko's Balance and dropping either Lefebvre's Soliloquy or Mantle of Channeling. You also need to replace Bane of the Powerful with Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard and use Serenity Ascension instead of Mantra of Salvation to keep the damage buff up.

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Squirt's Necklace version

Concept
This variant loses Mythic Rhythm and Stone Gauntlets to get Squirt's Necklace and Serenity. Compared to the other version it has half as much raw toughness but can use Serenity frequently. Damage-wise this version is about 5% weaker but it gets a huge boost from Shield Pylon. Without a generator you need at least 57% RCR and 55%+ CDR is recommended with 3 cooldown skills on the bar.

Gameplay
Here you need to do Squirt's Necklace setup instead of Mythic Rhythm. Simply activate Serenity at the end of Physical and release Tempest Rush right before it expires. This will guarantee you at least 2 stacks of Squirt's Necklace.

Setups
If you're lacking the necessary RCR, Blinding Flash Replenishing Light can be used to resolve your Spirit issues.

At very high Paragon levels (5,000+) you can drop The Guardian's Path or Harmony for Relentless Assault for more damage.

Video Guide

Mechanics

Tempest Rush Flurry

Blinding Flash

Summary

Put together the core items and acquire the full Sunwuko and Captain Crimson's Trimmings sets.
Practice building and detonating your Flurry stacks on your Cold cycle of Convention of Elements.
Climb the solo leaderboards by gathering monsters together and blasting them away with Area Damage.
Enjoy this beautiful Spin-to-Win build!

Town Is Lava!

Credits

Written by Northwar & Raxxanterax. Introduction by Chewingnom.

SLOT	ITEM	STAT PRIORITY
Main-Hand	In-geom Vengeful Wind Balance (Cubed)	1. Damage Range 2. Socket Ramaladni's Gift 3. Resource Cost Reduction 4. Cooldown Reduction 5. Area Damage 6. Life on Hit
Off-Hand	Won Khim Lau	1. Damage Range 2. Socket Ramaladni's Gift 3. Resource Cost Reduction 4. Cooldown Reduction 5. Area Damage 6. Life on Hit
Helm	Sunwuko's Crown Leoric's Crown	1. Tempest Rush Damage 2. Socket Flawless Royal Topaz 3. Critical Hit Chance 4. Dexterity
Gloves	Sunwuko's Paws Stone Gauntlets (Cubed)	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Critical Hit Damage 4. Area Damage
Shoulders	Sunwuko's Balance Mantle of Channeling	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Resource Cost Reduction 3. Area Damage 4. Dexterity
Chest	Sunwuko's Soul	1. Sockets Flawless Royal Diamond 2. Dexterity 3. Elite Damage Reduction 4. All Resistance
Pants	Sunwuko's Leggings	1. Dexterity 2. Sockets Flawless Royal Diamond 3. All Resistance 4. Vitality
Boots	Captain Crimson's Waders (Crafted)	1. Tempest Rush Damage 2. Dexterity 3. All Resistance 4. Vitality
Ring 1	Avarice Band (A3 Bounties) Convention of Elements Stone of Jordan Unity	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Damage Range 4. Critical Hit Damage 4. Area Damage
Ring 2	Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac Ring of Royal Grandeur (A1 Bounties) (Cubed)	1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Cooldown Reduction 4. Resource Cost Reduction
Bracers	Cesar's Memento Nemesis Bracers	1. Cold Damage 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Dexterity 4. Life On Hit
Amulet	The Flavor of Time Squirt's Necklace	1. Socket 2. Cold Damage 3. Critical Hit Damage 4. Critical Hit Chance
Belt	Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle (Crafted) Goldwrap	1. Dexterity 2. All Resistance 3. Vitality 4. Life %
Potion	Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid	For breaking walls to pull enemies and increase DPS

Core	Offensive	Defensive	Utility
1. Movement Speed	1. Cooldown Reduction	1. All Resistance	1. Area Damage
2. Maximum Spirit	2. Critical Hit Chance	2. Life %	2. Resource Cost Reduction
3. Dexterity	3. Critical Hit Damage	3. Armor	3. Life per Hit
4. Vitality¹	4. Attack Speed	4. Life Regeneration	4. Pickup Radius

Sunwuko Tempest Rush Monk Guide