Lesser demon

Lesser demons (also known as lessers), are a kind of demon, weaker than the closely related greater demons. They have a maximum hit of 85 damage, 790 life points, and regenerate damage at an average rate of 20 lifepoints per minute.

Medium level players sometimes kill these monsters for experience as they have low defence, especially against magic. Higher levels are recommended to avoid training on these monsters as they have poor drops for their level compared to similarly-levelled monsters (the rune med helm drop is too rare to amass decent profits). In free to play, it is recommended for players to train on cockroach soldiers as they have similar levels but much better drops.

The lesser demon is the sixth strongest non-revenant, non-quest monster in free-to-play, only to be beaten by ankous in the Stronghold of Security, level 85 skeletons in the Stronghold of Security and Wilderness Volcano, cockroach soldiers in the Stronghold of Player Safety, greater demons in the Wilderness, and hellhounds in the Wilderness Volcano. They are very popular monsters to kill. One is fought as a boss in Melzar's Maze during Dragon Slayer in order to obtain the Green Key required for one of the map pieces. This is the fourth monster to have the title: Strongest Monster in RuneScape from RuneScape Classic. It is now the strongest monster available to Instant Demo players.

Training


Lesser demons are effective training monsters for players that are medium to high levelled (around mid 70s combat level). Since Karamja has many fishing spots, players may fish for food at the island if they run out. Fighting lesser demons in the Wizards' Tower can be good for training Magic, Ranged, or alternatively melee using a halberd since the demon spawns inside of a cage. The respawn time of a lesser demon is quick, which means experience may be gained quickly killing them. It is recommended for meleers to wear strong armour such as adamant or rune and for rangers and mages take a few pieces of good food in case they are attacked while the lesser demons are aggressive. With rune armour and a good weapon, a level 50 player could easily kill a lesser demon, although a few pieces of food may be necessary. It is also recommended for mages and rangers to find some sort of safe spot from which they may attack.

The lesser demon is affected by the powers of Silverlight and Darklight, which increase damage inflicted by 60%. However, many players find these weapons to still be rather inaccurate. Instead, F2P players are recommended to use a rune weapon, preferably the scimitar, longsword, or battleaxe. Two-handed swords are very accurate on demons due to their slash bonus, but they are only recommended for players with good defence. Members should use a dragon weapon or barrows weapon; higher level weapons are not necessary for a monster of this level.

There is a safespot for ranging, maging, and halberding in the Taverley Dungeon which can be used once the demons are no longer aggressive. This is not a multicombat area so it is also possible to attack while hiding behind other demons. There are also three safespots for ranging, maging, and halberding in the Crandor and Karamja Dungeon that are very useful, however this dungeon often becomes crowded on non-member servers. In Crandor, there are two lesser demons to train on with a few safe spots. This is a good spot for rangers (wearing full d'hide and using arrows/bolts of steel or better is recommended).

New players who are using Magic or Ranged may go to the Wizards' Tower and kill the caged lesser demon. However, this spot often gets crowded, and players may not get much experience. Bringing a few air and law runes to tele-grab any good drops (such as the rune med helm) is advised. Otherwise, it will not be possible to pick up any of the demon's drops.

Free-to-play (F2P)

 * Wizards' Tower (caged)
 * Crandor and Karamja Dungeon
 * Resource dungeon in Karamja Dungeon
 * Crandor island
 * Melzar's Maze (in the basement)
 * Level 24 Wilderness, in the area between the Demonic Ruins and the Clan Wars arena.
 * Lava Maze
 * Wilderness Volcano

Members (P2P)

 * Taverley Dungeon
 * Temple of Ikov (dungeon), near the Guardians of Armadyl
 * Viyeldi caves (used during the Legends' Quest)
 * Champions' Guild basement, in the Champions' Challenge. (This is the Lesser Demon Champion which fights differently than regular lesser demons.)
 * Karamja Volcano, in the Dungeoneering hidden area. (Requires level 25 Dungeoneering.)

Champions' Challenge
Lesser demons are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Lesser Demon Champion, the player must kill lesser demons until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop.

100% drops

 * Ashes

Weapons and armour

 * Steel hatchet (common)
 * Steel scimitar (common)
 * Steel full helmet (common)
 * Black 2h sword (common)
 * Black Kiteshield (rare)
 * Mithril sq shield (rare)
 * Mithril chainbody (rare)
 * Rune med helm (rare)
 * 5 Rune javelins (m) (rare)
 * Rune spear (m) (rare)
 * Dragon spear (m) (very rare)
 * Shield left half (m) (very rare)

Runes

 * 30, 37, 45, 60 Fire runes (always 30 or 60 in Karamja volcano) (common)
 * 7, 12, 24 Chaos runes (always 12 in Karamja volcano)
 * 3-6 Death runes (always 3 in Karamja volcano)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire (Uncommon)
 * Uncut emerald (Uncommon)
 * Uncut ruby (rare)
 * Uncut diamond (very rare)

Herbs (members only)

 * Grimy guam (rare)
 * Grimy tarromin (rare)
 * Grimy marrentill (rare)
 * Grimy harralander (rare)
 * Grimy irit (rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (rare)
 * Grimy ranarr (very rare)
 * Grimy avantoe (rare)
 * Grimy kwuarm (rare)
 * Grimy cadantine (rare)
 * Grimy lantadyme (rare)

Other

 * Ashes (in addition to the one always dropped)
 * Coins 10, 40, 100, 110, 120, 130, 200, 210, 250, 400, 450 or 770 (most common), 1k (rare) 90k (very rare)
 * Gold ore (rare)
 * Jug of wine (common)
 * Loop half of a key (m) (rare)
 * Tooth half of a key (m) (rare)
 * Nature talisman (m)
 * Chaos talisman (m)
 * Cosmic talisman (m)
 * Champion scroll (m) (very rare)
 * Court Summons (m)
 * Starved Ancient Effigy (m) (rare)

Trivia

 * As of the 29 August 2006 update, the lesser demons' looks were tweaked by Jagex, giving the demons a more unique and distinguished look than prior to this update. There are also different "forms" of lesser demon that look different. Additionally, the lesser demon in Melzar's Maze is taller than the other Lesser demons. Also after the update the Melzar's Maze lesser appeared glitched due to the fact that Jagex had forgotten to update it. This has been fixed by Jagex.
 * K'ril Tsutsaroth, the boss monster of the Zamorak section of the God Wars Dungeon, is classified as a lesser demon, thus killing him counts towards any lesser demon Slayer Task, and also allows a player to take advantage of the abilities of a black mask, if they have a lesser demon Slayer Task.
 * You can buy a lesser demon in your Treasure Room in your Player-owned house at level 75 Construction, costing 500,000 coins and giving 707 experience. These do not give you any combat or slayer experience, or give any drops.
 * When an update that introduced Karamja was released, this monster was the single most powerful monster in the game. It held this title until the release of the Wilderness introduced the greater demon.
 * On F2P worlds, the Karamja dungeon is usually crowded where the lesser demons are due to them being a good training monster for F2P players.
 * The lesser demon in Melzar's Maze seems to be taller and has chains around its wrist.
 * After attacking one of the lesser demons on the Crandor side of the Crandor/Karamja volcano, if you open the wall to the Karamja side, and then reopen it back to the Crandor side, the lesser demon that you attacked will stand going back and forth, unable to get a spot where it will be able to reattack you.
 * The lesser demon at Demonic Ruins seems to be banished from greater demon's kind, being in a distance from greater demons, and there's only 2 lesser demons.
 * Currently, it is the strongest monster available on the Instant Demo mode of RuneScape.
 * The lesser demon located in the wizard's tower holds the name "Lemmy."
 * The animation of demons when idle was updated 5 July 2010. Previously, they moved their tail more.