Commander Zilyana


 * Commander Zilyana is a God Wars Dungeon boss and is called the 'Saradomin Boss' in RuneScape's Quick Chat feature.



Commander Zilyana is the leader of Saradomin's army in the God Wars Dungeon. She is said to be an Icyene, an ancient race of winged beings, chosen by Saradomin to guard his hilt. She uses extremely accurate melee and magic attacks. The Commander attacks with her multi-target magic attack when her sword glows with a bright blue aura and she raises it in the air. However, if the attack does hit, a small wall of lightning will appear around the player. She attacks with melee when she simply slashes at the player with her sword. Players must have 70 agility as well as two coils of rope and 40 kills on Saradominists to reach her. She has 3 guards: Growler (magic), Bree (ranged) and Starlight (melee).

Note: The two ropes are only needed once, and can be used any time thereafter. The ropes cannot be re-obtained.

Commander Zilyana should not be underestimated, as she is the sixth strongest monster in RuneScape, after General Graardor, K'ril Tsutsaroth, TzTok-Jad, the Spirit Beast and the Corporeal Beast, and so is the fifth highest levelled attackable monster, as the Spirit Beast cannot be attacked.

Bodyguards

 * Starlight
 * Growler
 * Bree

Quotes
When in battle, the commander gives several battle cries while fighting the characters that dare to venture deep enough to kill her:


 * "Death to the enemies of the light!"
 * "Slay the evil ones!"
 * "Saradomin lend me strength!"
 * "By the power of Saradomin!"
 * "May Saradomin be my sword."
 * "Good will always triumph!"
 * "Forward! Our allies are with us!"
 * "Saradomin is with us!"
 * "In the name of Saradomin!"
 * "Attack! Find the Godsword!"

Soloing Method
The soloing method involves a tactic known as Hit-and-Run, which can be used when grouping her. It involves attacking Zilyana, and quickly moving back before she can retaliate. If you melee, you will take 1 or 2 hits. However, if you range, you can keep hitting and running, and restoring energy with purple sweets or with Tireless Run Scrolls.

Note: Using melee while soloing is not advised, except at high levels. Zilyana is capable of cutting through the highest defence, and most players will not last long fighting her. High levelled players using range will find they can stay for about 10 kills, if their technique is mastered.

Players should run from corner to corner, as this will give you the most time in which to hit Zilyana.

Note: It is not well known that while directly 'hugging' the north wall, Starlight (the melee sergeant) is unable to attack you; however Zilyana, Growler, and Bree still can. Similarly, on the southern wall, Bree (the range sergeant) is unable to attack you, while the boss and other sergeants still can. This is useful to know while soloing, as you can protect yourself with only one protection prayer after a sergeant is dead. This, however, no longer works after an update made the room smaller.

Zilyana can kill you VERY quickly with her melee attacks, depending on your defence and hitpoints levels if you are in her melee range, so avoiding attacking her head on is highly encouraged. She uses extremely accurate melee and magic attacks and can hit a maximum of 31, which is quite low compared to the other generals in the dungeon. However, to compensate, her attacks are extremely rapid and are about the speed of throwing knives. Thus, both of her types of attacks are capable of doing 60+ damage in about 3 seconds, making her extremely dangerous. Her magic attack is multi-target, so Protect from Magic and good defensive armour is advised.

If you need to eat or drink Saradomin Brews, do so while running from corner to corner until your health is full.

Zamorak Godswords are very useful as the special attack freezes Zilyana for 20 seconds, giving you plenty of time to eat and prepare.

Weapons and Ammunition

 * Saradomin hilt (Extremely Rare)
 * Godsword shard 1 (very rare)
 * Godsword shard 2 (very rare)
 * Godsword shard 3 (very rare)
 * Saradomin sword (rare)
 * 18-20 Adamant javelin (semi-rare)
 * Rune sword (rare)
 * 40 Rune arrows (semi-rare)
 * 37 Rune dart
 * 95-105 Law rune
 * Rune spear (semi-rare)

Armour

 * Dragon medium helm (rare)
 * Rune plateskirt
 * Rune kiteshield
 * Adamant platebody
 * Rune sq shield (somewhat-rare)

Potions, Food, and Herblore

 * 3 Saradomin brew (3) and 3 Super restore potion (4)
 * Prayer potion (3)
 * 3 Magic potion (3) and 3 Super defence potion (3)
 * Grimy ranarr (5)
 * Ranarr seed (2)

Other Drops

 * Gems
 * Key half (uncommon)
 * Magic seed (rare)
 * 19,000 Coins
 * Chaos talisman (very rare)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare)

Trivia

 * Unlike the other bosses in the God Wars Dungeon, Commander Zilyana is a Commander opposed to the other 3 bosses being Generals. There is no known General for Saradomin and no explanation for why she is only a Commander.
 * The safe spot for Commander Zilyana was removed on 14 February 2008
 * Her shield slightly resembles the Falador shield 3.
 * Although her weapon, the Saradomin Sword, is a two-handed weapon when equipped by a player, Commander Zilyana wields it as a single-handed weapon.
 * Commander Zilyana's Not-runescape face was eventually revealed in the Battle Cards as looking like a Red-haired European.