Black demon

Black demons are large monsters that inhabit a few dungeons across RuneScape. They use a melee attack that can hit up to 16 on a player, or up to 20 on Familiars. They are much stronger than their Greater Demon cousins and are often assigned by Sumona and Duradel as Slayer tasks. It should be noted that, Black Demons drop low amounts of coins extremely often, making killing them for any other reason than a slayer assignment not worth the trouble most of the time. It is recommended to put them on a Slayer "Remove Assignment" list using Slayer reward points.

Locations
Black demons inhabit the following locations:
 * The deeper half of Taverley Dungeon (requires dusty key or +70 Agility)
 * Underneath Edgeville, in the Wilderness section of the dungeon
 * The Chaos Tunnels, these Black Demons have a notably higher drop rate for Blue Charms.
 * Brimhaven Dungeon, right before the Iron and Steel dragons, and with the Bronze dragons.

In each location is at least one safespot from which the demons can be fought safely with Ranged, Magic or a halberd.

Strategy
Despite their high level, Black demons have a fairly low defence but they are usually one of the more dangerous monsters in the dungeons they inhabit.

Melee
Meleeing is the fastest, most effective method and is the advised method for players who have the appropriate equipment and stats. Due to their accuracy and strength, most players choose to use protection prayers to avoid damage, this is slightly more costly than using food but is a lot less risky should a connection loss occur. Meleeing Black Demons without prayer is viable and good armour, food and a healing familiar are imperative.

Use of a Halberd is much slower than conventional melee weapons as well as much cheaper. Taverly dungeon is the recommended location for Halberding, but Edgeville dungeon is just as good.

Ranged
Ranging Black Demons is nearly as effective as Meleeing and generally less risky. All areas that Black Demons inhabit have safespots, Taverly dungeon is generally regarded as the best of the four.

Cannoning
Cannons are fairly effective against Black Demons and a good option to all who can afford them. Cannons cannot be used in the Chaos Tunnels and are subject to hitting other monsters in Brimhaven Dungeon.

Tavelery Dungeon
Even though this is a good spot for those willing to take a risk or who have a high combat level, those below combat level 85 are NOT encouraged to train here as it is very,very dangerous to make your way in. To minimize the danger, bring along lots of good food and a teleport way out, it is dangerous to exit by walking. This is the third best location.

Edgeville Dungeon
Excellent, the best place, but can be crowded at times. Not recomended for players below 80 combat, unless you are willing to be attacked by revenants. it is advised to have a brass key, as exiting through the ladder in the area of the Black demons will make you end up in the wilderness, which puts you at risk of being attacked by MULTIPLE revenants.

Chaos Tunnels
The worst place to train, but good for those who wish to raise their summoning. Beware of the fact that you may end up with dragons, so bring along teleport runes to escape and also an anti-dragon shield or dragonfire shield. Dragonfire potions are not recommended*except for the super version. You also need a combat above 100 to be away from any risk. Be careful! This location has a danger level of 8 out of 10 among the locations besides this.

Brimhaven dungeon
The second best place overall, but best especially for players above 60-getting in and out is no threat, fighting the black demons is like usual. the reason why it is not the best is because of the distance of the nearest bank.

100% drops

 * Ashes

Runes and talismans

 * 50 or 75 air runes
 * 37 or 40 fire runes
 * 10 chaos runes
 * 45 death runes
 * 7 blood runes
 * 3 or 45 law runes
 * 67 Nature runes
 * Chaos talisman

Armours and weapons

 * Black hatchet (common)
 * Black sword (common)
 * Dragon med helm (very rare)
 * Dragon spear (very rare)
 * Mithril kiteshield (common)
 * Rune kiteshield (rare)
 * Rune longsword (rare)
 * Rune med helm (less rare)
 * Rune platelegs (rare)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Rune 2h sword (rare)
 * Rune battleaxe (rare)
 * Rune chainbody (less rare)
 * Steel battleaxe (common)
 * Rune sq shield (rare)
 * Shield left half (very rare)
 * Rune platebody (very rare)

Ammunition

 * 1-200 adamant javelins (rare)
 * 135-345 bronze arrows
 * 5 or 10 rune Javelins
 * 12, 42, or 64 rune arrows
 * 150 steel arrows

Ores and bars

 * Adamant bar
 * 20 Noted Coal
 * Runite bar
 * 100 Noted Silver ore

Herbs

 * Herbs (excluding Spirit Weed, Wergali, Toadflax and Snapdragon)

Others

 * Nothing
 * 30, 44, 132, 220, 460 or 3,000 coins
 * Defence potion, (1) or (3)
 * All gems (except onyx)
 * Tooth half of a key
 * Loop half of a key
 * 1 or 2 Cooked lobsters
 * Gold charm
 * Green charm
 * Blue charm
 * Crimson charm (common) (about 6/10 kill)
 * 10 Thread

Trivia

 * Most black demons were level 156 in RuneScape Classic. The boss of the Grand Tree quest was level 175. It was the strongest quest monster until the release of the Legends quest.


 * The spelling of the regular demon is Black demon with lowercase second word. However for The Grand Tree quest, it used to be spelt Black Demon with 2 uppercase words. This has now been fixed.


 * Slayer Masters say that the Black demon is the strongest demon. This is, however, untrue, the tormented demon and K'ril Tsutsaroth (from godwars) both are higher level and have higher max hits.