Black demon

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For the variant encountered in Daemonheim, see Black demon (Dungeoneering).

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Black demon

Release date	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	98
XP per kill	661 (and 218.1 experience)
Examine text	A big, scary, jet-black demon.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	294.4
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Combat info LP Max hit 9,000 304 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 1 70 1 70 Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No No No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous No No Attack style Weaknesses Magic Bolts Silverlight Holy water

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Black demon

Release date	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	140
XP per kill	879 (and 290 experience)
Examine text	A big, scary, jet-black demon.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	294.4
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Combat info LP Max hit 7,000 500 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 70 70 0 0 Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No No No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous Yes No Attack style Weaknesses Melee Water spells Silverlight Holy water

[FAQ] • [doc]

Black demon

Release date	28 January 2013 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	166
XP per kill
Examine text	A big, scary, jet-black demon.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	655
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Combat info LP Max hit 42,000 Unknown Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No No No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous No No Attack style Weaknesses Magic Bolts Silverlight Holy water

[FAQ] • [doc]

Black demons are large monsters that inhabit a few dungeons across RuneScape. They use Magic attacks that can hit up to 304 on a player, or up to 200 on a familiar, unless your summoning is higher than 50. They are much stronger than their Greater demon cousins and are often assigned by Sumona, Duradel/Lapalok and Kuradal as Slayer tasks. Black demons drop Infernal ashes as a 100% drop and are considered a good source for Crimson charms with more than a 40% drop rate for these charms. Because of their high combat level and relative ease to defeat, black demons are often killed for their Starved ancient effigy drops and slayer experience.

Black demons originate on Infernus, where they were called Alyaroth, as the other demons seen in Gielinor do. They are part of the Avernic race, which were tribal and primitive, and slaves to whoever was ruling Infernus at the time. At the time of Palkeera's memory of the realm, they were enslaved by the cannibalistic Chthonians, who were unable to consume the Avernics for some reason. Among the Avernic demons, the Tsutsaroth were the dominant tribe, ruling over the Alyaroth and Byzroth in a brutal manner.

Locations

Black demons inhabit the following locations:

• The deeper half of Taverley Dungeon (requires dusty key or level 70 Agility. 80 Agility is a substitute, jump-over the strange floor along the left wall near the entrance to Taverley dungeon.
• Underneath Edgeville, in the northern section of the Edgeville Dungeon directly below the air obelisk.
• The Chaos Tunnels, with 4 black demons - a Dwarf multicannon may not be taken down the tunnels.
  • The Chaos Tunnels resource dungeon has lots of black demons, requires 70 dungeoneering, and is rarely crowded.
• Brimhaven Dungeon, right before the Iron and Steel dragons, and with the Bronze dragons. Area filled with wild dogs and 3 black demons, one in the bronze dragon room. Note the potentially aggressive wild dogs and the longer distance compared to the Taverley Dungeon location (with level 70 Agility).
• Al-Kharid, near the Fire Altar, as part of the God Emissaries combat tasks

Edgeville Dungeon

This location is considered a convenient place to slay in relative peace as there are three spawns, enough to sustain one player. This can be used for high levels as players can easily bank in an empty world by filling their inventory up with items, then going to the ladder to the obelisk and use the Home teleport to the lodestone for relatively fast banking for the infernal ashes and other potentially decent drops. This area is in the Wilderness, and is commonly frequented by player killers.

Brimhaven Dungeon

This location is also good for fighting black demons - getting in and out is no threat but can be time consuming and fighting the black demons is like usual. A cannon can be used to defeat these demons, but it will also fire at the Wild dogs and even iron dragons if you're in the wrong spot. Karamja lodestone is right outside the dungeon, allowing for quick access.

875 coins are required for every entry - this fee is waived if you've earned Karamja gloves 3.

Taverley Dungeon

The nearest banks to Taverley Dungeon are the west Falador bank or Taverley bank, both of which are quite close to the dungeon. The black demons, however, are fairly deep within Taverley Dungeon. This makes for a fairly long journey unless a player has 70 Agility to use the shortcut to blue dragons or 80 Agility to use the shortcut to the poison spiders. A summer pie may be used to boost agility by 5. If the player does not have the Agility level required to use the shortcuts, a dusty key will be required to access the area. This spot can yield very good Slayer experience on tasks if using a cannon. The best option for banking is using the Taverley Lodestone, and run south to the bank. The Taverley bank is within sight of the dungeon entrance which can be right-clicked to enter from just outside the bank. Other options for fairly quick banking are to teleport to the Castle Wars bank chest and return using the balloon transport system or to Home Teleport to Falador and use the west Falador west agility shortcut. This area is usually not recommended due to the long distances it takes for players without at least 65 Agility and also uses up an inventory space for the key needed.

Chaos Tunnels

The black demons in the Chaos Tunnels used to have a much higher drop rate for charms and were best for high levels who wished to raise Summoning, however, this was changed to bring them in line with black demons in other areas. Players should be advised of the dangers involved in navigating the Chaos Tunnels before fighting here, including traversing through several areas with aggressive monsters, and outside, the risk of PKers.

Players using Guthan's set can heal with them though this should be taken with care as there are bronze dragons nearby and the use of malfunctioning portals. Players can also easily bank up infernal ashes by using the Home Teleport to Edgeville. This area isn't crowded usually. Players who die here by accident will respawn at Edgeville and it should take around 2–5 minutes to get back to your grave, depending on the chances of misfiring portals.

A player with 70 Dungeoneering can use the Resource dungeon located in the black demon chamber as is less crowded.

Note: Dwarf multicannons cannot be brought in the tunnels.

Chaos Tunnels resource dungeon

Players need 70 Dungeoneering to access this area, which works well for meleers. There are eight black demons in here. Prayer is highly advised; as there are multiple demons in this area which can potentially deal more damage than you unless you are using Soul Split to heal the damage taken.

Note: Dwarf multicannons cannot be brought in the tunnels.

Strategy

Main article: /Strategies

You should just wear the best range gear you possibly can; armour does have unique defences. Therefore the higher the level range armour you wear; the better defence will be towards magical monsters such as demons.

Black demons have a very strong defense against melee weapons, as they are magic-based monsters.

Drops

100% drops

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Charms

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Infernal ashes	1	Always	2,057

No charm
22–23%	21%	11%	44%	2%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 207,014 kills. 1 charm is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Weapons

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Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Black scimitar	1	Uncommon	4,608
	Off-hand black scimitar	1	Common	3,187

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Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Black platebody	1	Uncommon	6,443
	Rune helm	1	Uncommon	10,533
	Rune chainbody	1	Uncommon	29,002

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Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grimy ranarr	1 (noted)	Common	1,860
	Grimy irit	1 (noted)	Common	5,008
	Grimy spirit weed	1 (noted)	Common	16,575

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Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Law rune	10	Uncommon	5,700
	Blood rune	10	Uncommon	6,780
	Death rune	50	Rare	11,600

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Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Uncut ruby	1	Common	1,842
	Adamant bar	1 (noted)	Uncommon	1,761

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Rare drop table drops

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items such as a ring of wealth or luck of the dwarves are not required to access the table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	1,611–3,338	Common	1,611–3,338
	Chilli potato	1	Common	272
	Grapes	2 (noted)	Common	9,570
	Anagogic ort	20	Common	Not sold
	Wine of Zamorak	1	Uncommon	15,400
	Spirit sapphire	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit emerald	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit ruby	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	250–500	Common	250–500
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	809
	Uncut emerald	1	Common	2,555
	Uncut ruby	1	Common	1,842
	Uncut diamond	1	Common	4,843
	Uncut diamond	45–55 (noted)	Rare	217,935–266,365
	Loop half of a key	1	Common	11,053
	Tooth half of a key	1	Common	11,538
	Uncut dragonstone	1	Uncommon	12,077
	Uncut dragonstone	45–55 (noted)	Rare	543,465–664,235
	Dragon longsword	1	Common	56,212
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	35,861
	Battlestaff	180–220 (noted)	Rare	542,160–662,640
	Rune javelin	5	Rare	905
	Rune platebody	1	Uncommon	37,480
	Rune platebody	15–25 (noted)	Rare	562,200–937,000
	Shield left half	1	Rare	64,399
	Dragon helm	1	Uncommon	58,601
	Rune arrowheads	113–137	Common	14,916–18,084
	Onyx bolts	135–165	Very rare	1,003,725–1,226,775
	Chaos talisman	1	Rare	1,923
	Nature talisman	1	Rare	1,473
	Water talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	164,320–207,296
	Earth talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	12,025–15,170
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	Rare	5,225–7,315
	Raw lobster	135–165 (noted)	Common	47,655–58,245
	Raw shark	225–275 (noted)	Uncommon	321,075–392,425
	Big bones	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	13,804–16,646
	Dragon bones	180–220 (noted)	Rare	384,480–469,920
	Coal	200–1,100 (noted)	Uncommon	22,400–123,200
	Gold ore	90–110 (noted)	Common	52,830–64,570
	Adamantite ore	180–220 (noted)	Uncommon	40,860–49,940
	Adamant bar	14–16 (noted)	Common	24,654–28,176
	Adamant bar	135–165 (noted)	Rare	237,735–290,565
	Runite ore	90–110 (noted)	Rare	127,710–156,090
	Rune bar	3 (noted)	Common	8,955
	Rune bar	45–55 (noted)	Rare	134,325–164,175
	Grimy torstol	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	485,010–592,790
	Grimy snapdragon	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	161,010–196,790
	Super restore (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	125,910–153,890
	Prayer potion (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	130,950–160,050
	Lantadyme seed	14–16	Uncommon	10,164–11,616
	Dwarf weed seed	14–16	Uncommon	11,508–13,152
	Magic seed	4	Uncommon	209,856
	Palm tree seed	10	Rare	396,000
	Flax	450–550 (noted)	Common	43,200–52,800
	Molten glass	45–55 (noted)	Common	27,585–33,715
	Soft clay	450–550 (noted)	Uncommon	188,550–230,450
	Yew logs	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	11,356–13,694
	Yew logs	675–825 (noted)	Rare	112,725–137,775
	Teak plank	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	16,740–20,460
	Mahogany plank	270–330 (noted)	Rare	356,670–435,930
	Blurberry Special	1	Uncommon	12,008
	Vecna skull	1	Very rare*	124,871
	Hazelmere's signet ring	1	Very rare*	1,432,268,388
	Brawling gloves (Melee)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Magic)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Ranged)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Agility)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Cooking)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (FM)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Fishing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Hunter)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Mining)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Prayer)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Smithing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Thieving)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (WC)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 1	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 2	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 3	1	Very rare	Not sold

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These drops are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,575

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Trivia

• Slayer Masters say that the Black demon is the strongest demon. This excludes exceptional demons such as the Jungle demon, Tormented demons, K'ril Tsutsaroth, Abyssal Demons and Nezikchened, which are all higher leveled and have higher max hits.
• The animation of demons when idle was updated 5 July 2010. Previously, they didn't move their wings as much, and moved their tail more.
• There was a graphics error with the transparency of the wings where if you looked closely when the wings were lined up with the body of the demon, you could see right through the solid body of the demon, through the wings. This has since been fixed.
• Their sound effects were updated on 19 April 2010.
• Black demons received a graphical update on the 29th January 2013. The graphics were shown in an earlier video, as seen here. In the video, the combat level of the demon appears to be at least 300 but this did not show up in the update. 

Preceded by	Title	Succeeded by
Chronozon	Strongest quest monster in RuneScape (12 December, 2002 - 20 August, 2003)	Nezikchened