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Mutated jadinko guards appear in the Jadinko Lair east of Shilo Village, on Karamja, and require a Slayer level of 86 to kill. They are popular for the whip vine drop, as they are the only monsters besides mutated jadinko males to drop it. Using bolas on it will cause it to attack you with the nearest jade roots. Mutated jadinko guards are considerably more dangerous than their combat level suggests; having a max hit of 279, and 3450 hitpoints, a string of lucky hits can quickly kill a player. They will also switch attack styles based on your protection prayers and are difficult to safespot, so it is nearly impossible to negate all damage. While their strength and health may be very high, they have somewhat low accuracy and defence, however.

Each one killed will yield 7 favour points with the jadinkos.

Contents 1 Attacks 2 Strategy 3 Drops 3.1 100% drops 3.2 Charms 3.3 Herbs 3.4 Jadinko fruit 3.5 Seeds 3.6 Others 4 Trivia

AttacksEdit

Mutated jadinko guards, along with males and babies, share a similar melee and magic attack. However a guard's melee attack is strong and occasionally hits above 200. Their magic attack is also high-hitting, but it doesn't hit often with even 95 magic defence bonuses. Using protection/deflection prayers will cause them to use the other attack they have to thwart prayer flashing on them. If players use Deflect/Protect from magic and they are unable to attack you, they will attempt a whip attack with nearby vines. but the vines hit extremely low, from 1-17. This attack is also triggered when a player targets a dreadnip to attack a mutated jadinko guard. They can bid multiple vines, along with males to attack you. So if a player were to stand near middle and there were 5 vines around him and the guard/male could not reach them, it will bid all five of them to attack the player at once, which is more dangerous than the standard attacks.

StrategyEdit

Main article: Mutated jadinko guard/Strategies

DropsEdit

100% dropsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Excrescence	2–5	1 Always	Not sold
	Mutated vine	2–6	1 Always	34–102

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
83–84%	4–5%	2–3%	2%	7–8%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 8,544 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy ranarr	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,130
	Grimy toadflax	1 (noted)	2 Common	3,623
	Grimy spirit weed	1 (noted)	2 Common	3,010
	Grimy irit	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,816
	Grimy wergali	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,977
	Grimy avantoe	1 (noted)	2 Common	4,039
	Grimy cadantine	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,498
	Grimy kwuarm	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,478
	Grimy snapdragon	1 (noted)	4 Rare	3,536
	Grimy lantadyme	1 (noted)	4 Rare	7,843
	Grimy dwarf weed	1 (noted)	4 Rare	8,203
	Grimy torstol	1 (noted)	4 Rare	10,133

Jadinko fruitEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Common fruit	1	2 Common	Not sold
	Amphibious fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Aquatic fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Camouflaged fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Carrion fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Diseased fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Draconic fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Guthix fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Saradomin fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Shadow fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Zamorak fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Cannibal fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Igneous fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold

SeedsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Red blossom seed	1	2 Common	15
	Green blossom seed	1	2 Common	15
	Blue blossom seed	1	2 Common	21
	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	328
	Watermelon seed	1	2 Common	2,008
	Marrentill seed	1	2 Common	12
	Tarromin seed	1	2 Common	4
	Harralander seed	1	2 Common	9
	Ranarr seed	1	2 Common	792
	Toadflax seed	1	2 Common	561
	Irit seed	1	2 Common	58
	Fellstalk seed	2	2 Common	970
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	816
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	51
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	10
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	42
	Spirit weed seed	1	3 Uncommon	355
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	31
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Avantoe seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,076
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,417
	Lantadyme seed	1	4 Rare	32,938
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	38,755
	Torstol seed	1	4 Rare	68,864
	Cactus seed	1	5 Very rare	28

OthersEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Juju teleport spiritbag	1	2 Common	2,177
	Magic logs	2–10 (noted)	2 Common	3,372–16,860
	Mahogany logs	13–17 (noted)	2 Common	7,501–9,809
	Yew logs	13–17 (noted)	2 Common	7,059–9,231
	Anagogic ort	20	3 Uncommon [1]	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Curved bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Long bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Whip vine	1	5 Very rare [2]	96,316

1. ^ Only with another drop.
2. ^ Estimated at 1/1,949 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.

TriviaEdit

• It is strange how they can drop Long bones and Curved bones since as Sentient plants they do not possess a skeleton and therefore have no bones to drop. They do not drop big bones as a 100% drop either but it's the case for all other creatures that drop Long bones and Curved bones.
• Their magic attacks, along with other mutated jadinkos, seem to be a vine attack from beneath you, similar to the old special attack of the abyssal vine whip, but only hits you once.
• If they manage to hit you with their magic attack, after the projectile reaches you, there's a one second delay before the damage shows up. It is unknown if it affects the babies or males, and might be an oversight from Jagex.
• Upon release of the Evolution of Combat, these monsters were aggressive, causing complaints from several players. This was fixed with the release of the Kalphite King on 14 January 2013.
• Their weakness appears to defy the combat triangle - they are weak against a melee style (stab), but they use magic as their primary attack style. It is unknown whether this is intentional.

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