Summoning training

Training Summoning can become very expensive and tedious, but familiars at higher levels make it a rewarding skill. This training guide lists three training ways for players with different budgets. However, training Summoning always requires some money.

= Beginning = To be able to begin Summoning, you must complete Wolf Whistle, which will give 275 gold charms and bring your Summoning level to 4. For more details see Starting Summoning.

=Quests=

In addition to making pouches, you can complete certain quests to receive summoning experience, including Penguin Hide and Seek, Tears of Guthix minigame, reward from certain random events, and certain quest lamps (usually require you to reach level 30 first to get summoning exp). Doing this means some no-cost experience, but also making your charms be worth more exp when certain levels are reached!

=Making Pouches=

The most common way of training your summoning is creating summoning pouches. To make a summoning pouch, you will need an empty pouch, a charm, a large number of spirit shards, and whatever item is relevant to the creature you want to summon (called a tertiary). You can buy empty pouches from Pikkupstix for 1 gp each, and you may buy the spirit shards from Pikkupstix for 25 gp each.

Note that at level 39 it is possible to get to level 99 in one trip by making giant chinchompa pouches at the Feldip hills obelisk, trading in the pouches for shards, then repeating the process until you run out of charms, pouches, chinchompas, or shards. This method only requires one-fourth as many shards as banking the pouches, because you get three-fourths of the shards back each time you fill your inventory with pouches

Charms
Creating a pouch requires a charm. You are given enough charms at the conclusion of the Wolf Whistle quest to get you to at least level 16. After this, you must obtain charms by thieving and killing monsters (charms cannot be traded on the Grand Exchange). See Acquiring Charms for more details.

Recommended Pouches

 * This table only contains pouches where the tertiary component is available on the Grand Exchange.
 * "Balanced" means the cost is less than 10 gold per XP (approximately, prices vary)
 * "Inexpensive" means the cost is less than 5 gold per XP (approximately, prices vary)
 * All costs assume you are selling the finished pouches

Minimise shards
Based upon minimising the cost due to the number of spirit shards used:

Table below shows minimum cost assuming players buy all the components (pouches, shards, tertiary ingredients).
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!Level !Shards !Tertiary !Method !Cost !Notes
 * 1 - 4
 * 14
 * Wolf bones
 * Starting point
 * align="right"| -
 * At completion of Wolf Whistle quest
 * 4 - 10
 * 760
 * Raw chicken
 * 95 Dreadfowl pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms from quest
 * 10 - 16
 * 1,008
 * Spider carcass
 * 126 spider pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms from quest
 * 16 - 18
 * 378
 * Iron ore
 * 54 Granite crab pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses up the remaining gold charms from quest
 * 18 - 40
 * 10,927
 * Iron ore
 * 1,561 Granite crab pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms
 * 40 - 52
 * 17,930
 * Marigolds
 * 1,630 Bull ant pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms
 * 52 - 66
 * 65,364
 * Raw bird meat
 * 5,447 Spirit terrorbird pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms
 * 66 - 67
 * 6,545
 * Swamp toad
 * 595 Barker toad pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms
 * colspan="6"|From this point up, the rarity and cost of the tertiary component may be your primary constraint.
 * 67 - 82
 * 31,964
 * Tortoise shell
 * 31,964 War tortoise pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses gold charms
 * 83 - 86
 * 3,226
 * Dagannoth hide
 * 3,226 Spirit dagannoth pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses crimson charms
 * 86 - 99
 * 12,469
 * Runite bar
 * 12,469 Rune minotaur pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses blue charms
 * colspan="6"|Costs are based on current exchange prices plus the cost of shards and pouches. And without taking into consideration later alching/use/trading of made pouches.
 * }
 * 3,226 Spirit dagannoth pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses crimson charms
 * 86 - 99
 * 12,469
 * Runite bar
 * 12,469 Rune minotaur pouches
 * align="right"|0 coins
 * Uses blue charms
 * colspan="6"|Costs are based on current exchange prices plus the cost of shards and pouches. And without taking into consideration later alching/use/trading of made pouches.
 * }
 * colspan="6"|Costs are based on current exchange prices plus the cost of shards and pouches. And without taking into consideration later alching/use/trading of made pouches.
 * }