2-Player Push META
Last Updated:June 7, 2025|Changelog
Introduction
In this article we will talk about the 2-Player Push most effective tactic available (META) to place high on the leaderboards. It’s possible to clear the current Greater Rift cap of 150 in just a few minutes when fully optimized, even with only 2 players. However, such fast clear times require extreme dedication to fishing and team coordination to be achieved. Check our Greater Rift Post for more in-depth mechanics and the current top clears with all the individual character compositions for every Season on our rankings page.
General Strategy
In an effective 2-Player group META, every party member has a defined role with different tasks. Here is an overview of the 4 roles usually played and tasks each role is best at:
DPS
Nova Necro, Natalya DH, Meteor Wiz, Scythe Necro
This position usually requires a build with good Area of Effect (AoE) damage like Death Nova or Meteor and huge temporary buffs like Arcane Attunement, Spellsteal, Assimilation etc. The main task is executing the damage rotation properly in order to progress through the Rift. The build must also be powerful enough to finish off the Rift Guardian by equipping Bane of the Stricken.
Support
zBarb, zDH, zMonk, zNec
The Support role requires good pull abilities as well as damage & toughness boost. The main task here is to pull monsters together for the Trash Killer (for Area Damage value), drag Elite packs along, scout the map and keep up damage & toughness buffs.
While it's possible to play a double-DPS setup with a trash killer and a boss killer, using one dedicated support build with one DPS is almost always better.
Trash Killer + zBarb
Concept
With only one support and one DPS you still have the same overall strategy as 3 and 4-player teams but you now don't have any options. Since there's no room for any additional DPS or Supports the game becomes entierly about abusing killstreaks. For that you need a zBarb to build large pulls and a Trash killer to get the killstreak going.
Death Nova Necromancer exels at decimating large packs of monsters thanks to density scaling of Bloodtide Blade. Simply wait for all the buffs and CC to be set up and spam some Death Nova into it. This uncomplicated strategy is nearly guaranteed to blow any enemy to smithereens.
zBarb pulling enemies with Ancient Spear Rage Flip and then groups them on top of various killstreak effects with Ground Stomp Wrenching Smash. Depending on the mobset and the number of Elites you kill you might go way over 500 kills when the Rift is done. In that case you will have nothing left to kill the Rift Guardian. To avoid that, both players need to stop attacking for a few seconds to lose the killstreak. This is best done right after triggering an effect at 100 or 150 kills.
Alternatives
Check out our for Rift Trash Killer Tier List for more choices! It's not really that important to have very high damage on your Trash Killer because killstreaks do most of the work. However Frailty is still very useful so it's hard to move away from Necro.
Conclusion
In Season 35 we abuse killstreak effects to clear the entire Rift while doing barely any damage ourselves. In 2-player push this becomes more pronounced than ever because with less players other strategies become weaker while killstreaks do not.
Enjoy Season 35 and good luck on your Leaderboard rank. May RNGesus be with you!
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