Slayer substitutes

Variations of monsters count towards the slayer assignment. For example, if a player has been assigned to kill Blue dragons, they may instead slay Baby blue dragons and receive Slayer experience. Since the amount of experience received is based on the monster's hitpoints, there may be an advantage to selecting the higher level creature as a target.

This table shows the substitutes for the listed slayer tasks. The Substitutes column lists the known substitutes for the task. The Not allowed column lists creatures that resemble the assigned creature in some way but do not count toward the task. For example, if a player is assigned ghosts, aberrant spectres do not count toward the task, even though a spectre appears to be ghostly and its examine text calls it a 'very smell ghost'.