An Abyssal leech is a monster that dwells in the Abyss, and also in the Abyssal Area (Fairy Ring code: ALR). They are the easiest abyssal monsters to kill because they have low defence and low lifepoints. However, they do have high accuracy and can hit very quickly (attack speed of 8, around the same speed as dual wielded "fastest" weapons). They are the monster usually killed for pouches because they are the abyssal monster that has the fewest life points. On the flip side, however, their drop rate is the same of the monsters with tougher life points and defence.

It is NOT recommended to hunt these for pouch drops. Abyssal Walkers are much easier to kill, because while wearing Mage armour, you will consume less food from the melee attacks of the abyssal monsters. It is ONLY recommended to hunt these if you're looking for essence drops and combat experience, which is not recommended, as essence can be mined at a much quicker rate, and there are much quicker ways of training combat.

To hunt this creature in the Abyssal Area, place yourself in a corner so that they can only attack you one at a time. If you have 43 Prayer, bring a Prayer potion and use Protect from Melee. After that point hunting for pouches, charms, and various talismans is easier.

Training on them is not recommended but possible due to other monsters such as Abyssal walkers and Abyssal guardians that roam the Abyss and Abyssal Area. They have 2600 LP, extremely low defence, and are highly aggressive, allowing quick training. However, they will stop being aggressive after a while, just like the Abyssal guardian and the Abyssal walker do. They are particularly weak to crush attacks. It is strongly recommended to use a two-handed crush weapon such as the Saradomin sword as their low defence and health can easily 1-hit them.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Drops 2.1 100% drops 2.2 Talismans 2.3 Runecrafting Items 2.4 Charms 2.5 Others 3 Rare drop table drops 4 Trivia 5 See also

LocationsEdit

• Abyssal Area (Fairy Ring code ALR)

The Abyssal Area is a great place to slay leeches as there is no chance of getting skulled unlike the nearby Abyss. You can also teleport out when needed quickly and efficiently along with the fact that it is not a multicombat area. However the leeches here are more spread out then the nearby Abyss, so finding a small number in one spot will be hard to do so.

• Abyss

The Abyss is also another good place to kill leeches. However, you will be SKULLED upon entry unless you have used a Forinthry brace's charge, though your prayer will be drained upon entry. This place is a multi-combat area, making it excellent for training here as it can fetch around 50-100k combat experience per hour depending on your weapon and how fast you can kill the leeches. The leeches here are more clumped so it makes it an excellent area to kill them. However escaping while they are still aggressive is a problem as there are almost no safespots and if you fail an obstacle you will still take damage.

DropsEdit

100% dropsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Ashes	1	1 Always	349

TalismansEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air talisman	1	3 Uncommon	145
	Mind talisman	1	3 Uncommon	76
	Earth talisman	1	3 Uncommon	793
	Water talisman	1	3 Uncommon	4,721
	Fire talisman	1	3 Uncommon	2,018
	Body talisman	1	3 Uncommon	187
	Cosmic talisman	1	3 Uncommon	210
	Chaos talisman	1	3 Uncommon	227
	Nature talisman	1	3 Uncommon	270
	Law talisman	1	3 Uncommon	207
	Elemental talisman	1	5 Very rare	81,085

Runecrafting ItemsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Binding necklace	1	3 Uncommon	666
	Small pouch	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Medium pouch	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Large pouch	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Giant pouch	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Pure essence	1,5,10,25 (all noted)	2 Common	85–2,125
	Pure essence	1 (unnoted)	2 Common	85

Note that you will only get a pouch if you have all the smaller pouches, and if you have them all, you will no longer get them as a drop, unless you lose one.

It is recommended to get your pouches from these monsters due to its low LP. They have a slightly lower drop rate than the other abyssal monsters, however, meaning that it may take more kills to obtain the pouches.

CharmsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Abyssal charm	1	2 Common	Not sold

Charm drop percentages

No charms
97–98%	0.4–1%	0.8–1.6%	0.2–0.6%	0.2–0.7%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 2,221 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

OthersEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Clue scroll (medium)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved Ancient Effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 1,143 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,783 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,576 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,548 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,668 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,160 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,935 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,966 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,221 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,627 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,270 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 920 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,048 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,856 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 861,050 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,145 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,188 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,636 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 17,400 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,850–199 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,303,050 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,665,400 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,418,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 133,474 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,721 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 19,825–27,755 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 50,450–70,630 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 227 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 270 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 42,500–1,275,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,420 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,150 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,250–298 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 246,500–493,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 67,350–224,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 41,700–2,085,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 227,700–1,214,400 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,500 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,168,000–22,176,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,041,900 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,002–1,950,300 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 74,448 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 95,050–950,500 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 106,530–426,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 118,420–1,184,200 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 172,000 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,030 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 71,385–3,569,250 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 160,602–963,612 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,064,590 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,196 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 78,509–2,433,779 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 932 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 56,100–11,220,000

TriviaEdit

• Abyssal leeches used to be level 41, but after a hidden update, their combat levels were raised to 86. This has drawn some criticism from players as they used to be non-aggressive to players with a combat of 83 or higher, but due to the update became aggressive to all levels.

See alsoEdit

• Abyssal walker
• Abyssal guardian
• Abyssal demon