Chum Bucket Opener

To kick off this build, Rarran started with the Chum bucket, which automatically gives a Piranha.

Choosing this allows you to play aggressively early on with potential to pivot to Aquatic later on.

Typically, players will avoid sticking with the Piranha until late game due to its scaling issues, but Rarran was able to solve that.

If you do build around Piranha as your main engine, you're going to want to get it to 100% Crit Chance and find ways to scale its Damage.

Piranha

Crow's Nest

Although he used multiple Piranhas through the early and mid game, Rarran ultimately opted for just one Piranha due to the Crow's Nest and Spices (which we'll get to below).

The Crow's Nest ensures that you hit the 100% Crit threshold and grants you Lifesteal when you have a solo item.

Rarran was also able to imbue it with Turbo but that isn't required for this build to work.

Holsters

Aggressive builds heavily depend on outracing your enemies! If you don't get the first swing, you'll usually have a bad time since you'll lack defenses.

Holsters offer the perfect option for your Piranha and the other Small items in this build due to its instant Haste.

Spices

Spices can be dropped from the following PvE Encounters:

• Thug (level 8)
• Elite Duelist (level 9)
• Void Golem (level 12)

Since your Piranhas will scale at different rates, narrowing down your board to just one Piranha ensures that Spices will will always grant the most Damage possible.

You can increase its Ammo with Gunpowder from Loot or through other opportunities like Level ups.

Hammer

The Hammer, which drops from Boileroom Brawler (level 4), is always a good option to go for in any build.

However, it was particularly crucial in this Piranha run to help the strategy continue to scale and outpace opponents.

Make sure to keep track of your level ups and position an upgradeable item to its left!

Lifting + Econ Stash

Besides Hammer and Spices, the other major way Rarran scaled his build's Damage was through the Lifting skill which increases every time you buy a Weapon.

To fuel this engine, Rarran used Stash items like Shovel and Fishing Net to provide additional income sources.

Lifting

Econ Generation Stash

Supportive Items

To support your Piranha Damage engine, you can look to buy it time with crowd control options like Clamera (Slows) and Frost Potion (Freezes).

Ideally these are Small items so you can Haste it with your Holsters.

Clamera

Frozen Potion

Supportive Skills

For your skills, anything that will boost your Damage, help you cast faster, or CC your opponent can work.

However, these were some of the major finds (along with Lifting) that Rarran found.

Diamond Fangs (drops from level 5 Sabretooth fight)

Mixed Messages

Oceanic Rush