Ankou

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Ankou

Combat level	75, 82, 86
Hitpoints	60, 65, 70
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	60,66,72
Members only?	No
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Crush
Max hit	8
Weakness	Crumble Undead, Salve amulet, Stab Attacks
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	A bony ghost.

Ankou are undead monsters found on the fourth level of the Stronghold of Security, known as The Sepulchre of Death, and in the Wilderness Volcano. All varieties of Ankou have a maximum hit of 8 damage. The highest-level Ankous are one of the strongest monsters open to non-members, surpassed only by greater demons, hellhounds and certain revenants. As said by Vannaka, the slayer master, "Ankous are neither skeleton nor ghost, but both".

This monster is a very popular monster to train in members worlds because of its decent blood rune and death rune drops and their weakness against melee attack (slash seeming to be slightly more accurate) and the Salve Amulet. In the free world, Ankous are rarely attacked due to their high level, but some players may kill these monsters for their drops of law runes and adamant arrows. Members can use this monster for money making, the drops of blood runes, death runes, battlestaves, pure essence, adamant arrows, and their level 3 Clue Scroll drop. However, the popularity of Ankous makes it very crowded. Ankous act very similar to attackable human NPCs, and attack by punching (crush-type attack). This makes a Chainbody such as Rune or Dragon preferable to a platebody.

The Ankou is the only monster to drop the left skull half, a component needed to assemble the skull sceptre. There is a safespot to range or mage the level 82 Ankou. This makes it possible for low level players to obtain the sceptre piece, bring food also. The safespot is located in the south-west part of the stronghold.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Drops 2.1 100% Drops 2.2 Armour and Weapons 2.3 Runes 2.4 Seeds (members only) 2.5 Herbs (members only) 2.6 Charms (members only) 2.7 Other items 3 Trivia

[edit] Locations

• Wilderness Volcano (level 82)
• Stronghold of Security Last Level (All levels)

[edit] Drops

[edit] 100% Drops

• Bones

[edit] Armour and Weapons

• 5 to 20 Adamant arrows (uncommon)
• Black robe (uncommon)
• 1 Black throwing knife (m) (uncommon)
• 5 Rune Javelins (m) (rare)
• Dragon spear (m) (very rare)
• Shield left half (m) (rare)
• Steel Platebody (very rare)
• Rune Spear (m) (rare)

[edit] Runes

• 2 Law runes (semi-common)
• 10 or 20 Death rune (common)
• 5, 6, 11 or 12 Blood Runes (m) (common)

[edit] Seeds (members only)

• Harralander seed
• Strawberry seed
• Torstol seed
• Jangerberry seed (uncommon)
• Limpwurt seed
• Marrentill seed
• Whiteberry seed
• Poison ivy seed
• Ranarr seed (rare)
• Tarromin seed
• Snapdragon seed (rare)
• Watermelon seed (uncommon)
• Toadflax seed
• Belladona seed
• Cactus seed
• Mushroom spore (uncommon)
• kwuarm seed
• Spirit weed seed (rare)
• Wildblood seed (very uncommon)
• Irit seed

[edit] Herbs (members only)

• Grimy Marrentill (semi common)
• Grimy Ranarr (semi common)
• Grimy guam (semi common)
• Grimy harralander (common)
• Grimy irit
• Grimy kwuarm
• Grimy tarromin (uncommon)
• Grimy dwarf weed
• Grimy Cadantine
• Grimy avantoe

[edit] Charms (members only)

• Gold charm (common)
• Crimson charm (uncommon)
• Green charm (semi-rare)
• Blue charm (very rare)

[edit] Other items

• Up to 500 Coins (very common)
• 3 to 7 noted Mithril ore (semi-common)
• Left skull half ( semi-common)
• Cooked Bass (m) (uncommon)
• Fried mushrooms (m) (uncommon)
• Clue scroll (level 3) (m) (rare)
• Half of a key (m) (rare)
• Uncut gems (rare)
• Weapon poison (m) (common)
• 15 noted Rune essence (f2p worlds only)
• 15 noted Pure essence (m) (very common)
• Nature talisman (rare) (m)
• Battlestaff (uncommon) (m)

[edit] Trivia

• In Bretons the word Ankou means Grim Reaper or Death.
• Although the examine info says "A bony ghost", they do not count as slayer monsters if players are assigned ghosts.

v • d • e Undead monsters
Basic undead	Ghost • Skeleton • Zombie • Ankou • Tortured soul • Undead One • Ghast • Undead chicken • Undead cow • Zombie monkey • Undead troll • Undead mage • Skeleton warlord • Skeleton thug • Skeleton brute
Beasts	Spirit Beast • Corporeal Beast
Pets	Ex-ex-parrot • Creeping hand
Ogre undead	Zogre • Skogre
Slayer monsters	(Mighty) Banshee • Aberrant spectre
Shades	Shade (random event) • Shade (monster) • Loar • Phrin • Riyl • Asyn • Fiyr
Revenants	Imp • Goblin • Icefiend • Pyrefiend • Hobgoblin • Vampire • Werewolf • Cyclops • Hellhound • Demon • Ork • Dark Beast • Knight • Dragon