Ankou

Ankou are undead monsters found on the fourth level of the Stronghold of Security, known as The Sepulchre of Death, and in the Wilderness Volcano. All varieties of Ankou have a maximum hit of 80 Life Points. The highest-level Ankous are one of the strongest monsters open to non-members, surpassed only by greater demons, hellhounds and certain revenants. As said by Vannaka, the slayer master, "Ankous are neither skeleton nor ghost, but both".

This monster is a very popular monster to train in members worlds because of its decent blood rune and death rune drops and their weakness against melee attack (slash seeming to be slightly more accurate) and the Salve Amulet. In the free world, Ankous are rarely attacked due to their high level, but some players may kill these monsters for their drops of law runes and adamant arrows. Members can use this monster for money making, the drops of blood runes, death runes, battlestaves, pure essence, adamant arrows, and their level 3 Clue Scroll drop. However, the popularity of Ankous makes it very crowded. Ankous act very similar to attackable human NPCs, and attack by punching (crush-type attack). This makes a chainbody such as rune or dragon preferable to a platebody. The Ankou is the only monster to drop the left skull half, a component needed to assemble the skull sceptre. There is a safespot to range or mage the level 82 Ankou. This makes it possible for low level players to obtain the sceptre piece. The safespot is located in the south-west part of the stronghold.

One strategy is to use Bones to Peaches (tablets, if you don't have the spell) as the Ankous drop bones as a 100% drop. Ankous are highly recommended for players who want to use any strong Ancient Magicks spells or do not want to spend money on runes such as Bloods and Deaths, as they drop Death & Blood runes very commonly.

Locations

 * Wilderness Volcano (level 82)
 * Stronghold of Security Fourth level (All levels)

100% drops

 * Bones

Armour and Weapons
P2P Items F2P Items
 * Battle staff (uncommon)
 * 5 to 25 Adamant arrows (5 uncommon, 25 Extremely Rare)
 * Black robe (uncommon P2P, uncommon F2P)
 * Steel platebody (Extremely Rare)
 * Black wizard hat (Extremely Rare)

Runes

 * 2 Law runes (common)
 * 10 Death rune (m) (common)
 * 5, 6, 11 or 12 Blood Runes (m) (common)

Seeds (members only)

 * Dwarf weed seed (rare)
 * Harralander seed
 * Strawberry seed
 * Torstol seed
 * Jangerberry seed (rare)
 * Limpwurt seed
 * Marrentill seed
 * Whiteberry seed
 * Poison ivy seed
 * Ranarr seed (rare)
 * Tarromin seed
 * Snapdragon seed (rare)
 * Watermelon seed (rare)
 * Toadflax seed
 * Belladona seed
 * Cactus seed
 * Mushroom spore (rare)
 * Kwuarm seed
 * Spirit weed seed (rare)
 * Wildblood seed (rare)
 * Irit seed

Herbs (members only)

 * Grimy Marrentill (common)
 * Grimy Ranarr
 * Grimy guam (common)
 * Grimy harralander (common)
 * Grimy irit
 * Grimy kwuarm
 * Grimy tarromin (rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed
 * Grimy Cadantine
 * Grimy avantoe
 * Grimy lantadyme (rare)

Other items

 * Up to 500 Coins (most common) (1-20 Coins often)
 * 3 to 7 noted Mithril ore (uncommon)
 * Left skull half (uncommon)
 * Cooked Bass (m) (uncommon)
 * Fried mushrooms (m) (rare)
 * Clue scroll (level 3) (m) (rare)
 * Half of a key (m) (rare)
 * Uncut gems (rare)
 * Weapon poison (m) (common)
 * 15 noted Rune essence (F2P only)
 * 15 noted Pure essence (m) (common)
 * Fire talisman (rare)
 * Nature talisman (m) (rare)
 * Black Knife (m) (rare)

Trivia

 * It may be a play on words with a Japanese sign meaning "darkness".
 * In Bretons the word Ankou means Grim Reaper or Death.
 * Although the examine info says "A bony ghost", they do not count as slayer monsters if players are assigned ghosts.
 * Their eyes appear green and vicious with close examination of the creatures.
 * Ankous are some of the most heavily populated monsters aside from hill giants, and certain dragons.
 * Ankous are a great way to earn money by collecting the law runes, seeds, and battlestaves they drop.