Hellhound

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

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Hellhound

Release date	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members	No
Combat level	92
XP per kill	361.5 (and 119.2 experience)
Examine text	Hello, nice doggy... A savage beast.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	93.6
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Combat info LP Max hit 3,300 224 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 66 66 1 1 Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No No No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous Yes No Attack style Weakness Melee Slash

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Hellhound

Release date	28 August 2007 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	95
XP per kill	836 (and 275.8 experience)
Examine text	From the maws of hell.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	218
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Combat info LP Max hit 6,800 350 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 68 68 1 1 Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No Indeed No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous Yes (unless wearing Zamorak item) No Attack style Weakness Melee Water spells

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Hellhounds are mid to high level demons often given as a Slayer assignment to mid to high level players. The introduction of the Summoning skill brought about a rise in players killing them due to their gold charm drop rate. They have the third highest combat level of any monster outside of Daemonheim in F2P, surpassed by the deadly red spider and revenant knight. Hellhounds may also be purchased to guard a player's dungeon in the Construction skill (see Hellhound (POH)).

With the removal of Bounty Hunter, hellhounds were put in the Wilderness Volcano. They have been added to the Forinthry Dungeon with the re-release of the Old Wilderness system.

If hellhounds are assigned as a Slayer assignment, revenant hellhounds may be killed in their place. They have very high accuracy and hit constantly even through high level armour such as Barrows equipment. The hellhounds located in the God Wars Dungeon are weak to water spells; elsewhere they are weak to slash weapons.

Hellhounds can be an excellent way to train melee for F2P players, as players can exploit their weakness to slash with the Rune 2h sword and Gravite 2h sword, possibly getting more XP/hr than Deadly red spiders. Keep in mind: hellhounds are found only in the Wilderness in F2P worlds, so beware of the risk of PKers. The area is usually uncrowded.

Locations

Hellhounds in their lair under Taverley.

• Taverley Dungeon (m)
  • Taverley Dungeon resource dungeon (m)
• Witchaven Dungeon (m)
• God Wars Dungeon (m) Note: Although the hellhounds here give significantly more slayer experience, there are very few of them in the dungeon, including only one inside Zamorak's fortress, making this an inefficient training option.
• Forinthry Dungeon
• Level 50+ Wilderness (changed due to eoc) (m)
• Kuradal's Dungeon (m)
• Wilderness Volcano

Strategy

Main article: Hellhound/Strategies

Drops

100% drops

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Charms (members only)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Bones	1	Always	266

No charm
20%	69%	5%	5%	1%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 380,708 kills. 1 charm is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

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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
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	Uncommon	Not sold
	Ferocious ring	1	Rare	Not sold
	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
	Frozen key piece (zamorak)	1	Random	Not sold

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

Trivia

• Slayer Masters describe hellhounds as "a cross between dogs and demons". However, even though they are demons, they are not affected by the powers of silverlight or darklight; along with the bloodveld, they are the only demons that drop bones rather than ashes.
  • They also don't count when assigned a "dog" slayer task.
• On 16 June 2009, hellhounds were placed in the wilderness volcano, making it the first P2P monster to enter F2P. It also broke the record of strongest, non-revenant, free to play monster with a combat level of 122.
• After the ring of wealth update on March 16 2011, the charm drop rates of hellhounds and rock lobsters had "gone walkabouts". This caused hellhounds to drop gold charms less frequently. Rather, they seemed to drop blue charms much more often. This was, however, fixed on March 28 as noted in the patch notes of that date.