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Hellhound

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Release date	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	122 / 127
XP per kill	465 xp (and 155 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	116
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	(Level 122) Hello, nice doggy... (Level 127) From the maws of hell. (Level 60 (Vengeance saga)) A savage beast.
Combat stats LP Max hit 1150 / 1160 118, 130 Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? Yes No Attack style Weaknesses Melee Slash Crush Stab Ranged

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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 second highest combat level of any monster outside of Daemonheim in F2P, only to be surpassed by the Revenant Knight. Hellhounds may also be purchased to guard a players dungeon in the Construction skill (see Hellhound (POH)).

Hellhounds are an excellent source of "farming" hard clue scrolls as they drop them frequently unlike other monsters, such as Abyssal demons. However this is their only unique drop, excluding their bones.

With the removal of Bounty Hunter, hellhounds were put in the Wilderness crater. 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.

Locations

• Taverley dungeon
  • Taverley Dungeon resource dungeon
• Witchaven Dungeon
• God Wars Dungeon
• Forinthry Dungeon
• Level 50+ Wilderness
• Kuradal's Dungeon
• Wilderness Volcano (f2p)

Strategy

Main article: Hellhound/Strategies

Drops

100% Drops

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bones	1	1 Always	83

Charms (members only)

Charm drop percentages

No charms
20–21%	68–69%	5%	5%	1%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 197,832 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

Other

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Ferocious ring	1	4 Rare [1]	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

1. ^ Only in Kuradal's dungeon

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, also along with the bloodveld, they are the only demons that drop bones rather than ashes.
• On 16 June 2009, hellhounds were placed in the Wilderness Volcano, making it the only P2P monster to enter F2P.
• After the ring of wealth update on March 16 2011, the charm drop rates of hellhounds and rock lobsters had "gone walkabouts"^[1]. 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.
• Hellhounds' presence in a cave can be explained by the fact that they are a breed of wild dogs.

References

1. ^ Mod Sneakman. "Hellhounds Nerf?". 16 March 2011. Recent Updates Forums. *

See also

• Revenant hellhound
• Hellhound (POH)