Imp

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Imp

Release	16 February 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Examine
A cheeky little imp.
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
5	200	25.8	8.5
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
1 / 1 / 0
Aggressive		Poisonous
Offensive
Max hit
16	0	0	? (edit)
Style		Speed
		4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
4 0 0 Accuracy 140 0 0
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
140	4
Affinities
90	55	45	65
Immunities

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Defined properties:

All Life points: 200 Life points: 200 All Combat experience: 25.8 Combat experience: 25.8 All Release date: 16 February 2001 Release date1: 16 February 2001 All Release date: 28 August 2007 Release date2: 28 August 2007 All Combat level: 5 Combat level: 5 All Is members only: false Is members only1: false All Is members only: true Is members only2: true All NPC ID: 708 NPC ID1: 708 All NPC ID: 6211 NPC ID2: 6211

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Imp

Release date	21 November 2006 (Update)
Hunter level	71
Experience	450
Location	Worldwide
Trap	Magic box
Preferred bait	Beads
Retaliation	No
Loot	Imp-in-a-box
Examine	A cheeky little imp.

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Imps are small demonic creatures, being the weakest of all the attackable demons. Though demons, Holy water is not effective. They are affected by the powers of Silverlight and Darklight.

An imp may defend itself from a player's attack by disappearing in a puff of smoke and teleporting to a random nearby place. If the player can reach the spot where the imp teleported, the player will auto-path, automatically walking to the location of the imp to continue the fight, provided they do not click anywhere else on the map. Imps occasionally teleport even when they are not under attack. An imp, upon receiving damage, may also retreat from the player but not teleport. Imps have the ability to teleport themselves into areas that players cannot reach. It may also teleport as it dies, making the drop appear elsewhere.

Within the God Wars Dungeon, imps have a slightly different appearance, sporting goatees, longer horns and their skin is a deeper shade of red. Imps are loyal followers of Zamorak and will not be aggressive towards the player if they wear a Zamorakian item or have a Zamorak hawk follower out. They are rarely attacked by other monsters. Because of their low level and life points, killing imps is a fast way of increasing one's kill count in order to enter the Zamorakian boss room.

Imps are decent monsters to kill for low combat level players. They have 200 Life points each, which grants 26.7 experience to combat skills, along with 8.8 Constitution experience. Even though these also drop fairly good items for their level (among which Imphide), they are not recommended for training, as there are few of them scattered all over Gielinor and they have the ability to teleport.

The majority of imps' drops are worth little to higher-level players, and are often of little or no interest to them, except for beads that can sell for over 4,000 coins each due to their use in magic potions.

Locations

• About 2-3 south of Falador, usually near the city wall by the south gate
• On the path between Lumbridge and Draynor
• About 3-4 north of Yanille
• 1 near mining site, north of Al Kharid
• First alley to the right in Varrock, closest to Phoenix Gang entrance
• Near the spirit tree patch just east of The Rusty Anchor in Port Sarim
• 2 in Varrock near the back of the palace and north-west of Grand Exchange
• 2 around the volcano on Karamja Island (5 before 2018)
• On the Port Sarim dock
• Near the west wall of Varrock
• Near the dark wizards south of Varrock
• God Wars Dungeon (magic box won't work on those); a few in the central chamber and five more in Zamorak's Fortress
• 2 in the north-east part of the Grand Exchange, sometimes outside of the wall
• Several surround the Ardougne Monastery
• 2 in Edgeville
• 11 in the Karamja Volcano resource dungeon

An imp hiding in a tree during the 2011 Christmas event

Champions' Challenge

Imps are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge Distraction and Diversion. To fight the Imp Champion, the player must kill imps until one drops a Champion's scroll, a very rare drop. The champion scroll drop rate is not affected by the ring of wealth, as it is not on the standard or rare drop table of the imp. When the drop is received it will be a "third drop," for example, an imp hide, impious ashes, hammer, and champion scroll will all be received in the same drop.

Many players consider the imp champion scroll to be one of the harder champion scrolls to obtain. This is because in almost all places, no large clusters of imps can be found to attack, unlike all the other races that drop champion scrolls. Also, most areas where 4-5 imps can be found are wooded, making it difficult to rapidly target the imps in succession. The analogy of herding cats fits the hunting of large numbers of imps very well.

Players with level 25 Dungeoneering can access the Karamja Volcano Resource Dungeon, which has numerous imps. Although lesser demons are found here, they will not attack the player while they are attacking imps alone. This spot is extremely effective for using a dwarf multicannon and will allow the player to combine getting the imp champion scroll with getting the lesser demon champion scroll. Finally, the north east corner of the Grand Exchange may be an option for players who don't want to be attacked by too many monsters at once.

Players with the Royale dwarf multicannon, Ardougne cloak 1+, and a Hoardstalker ring can place the cannon at the Ardougne Monastery, then use the ring to teleport to the Karamja Volcano Resource Dungeon to kill more imps. Since the scroll is broadcasted on chat, players can simply teleport between the spots when said scroll drops. They still need to refill the cannon once every 10-20 minutes, however.

Once the scroll is obtained, however, the fight with the Imp Champion is considered the easiest champion match by most players, because this champion has the lowest life points of all the champions. Interestingly, the imp champion uses the teleporting ability of the imps to great effect, rapidly teleporting all over the field and attacking with ranged. Players are advised to use ranged or magic for this fight.

The banner carrier that carries your banner when you have defeated any champion is, itself, an imp.

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Impious ashes	1	Always	3,692
	Imphide	1	Always	528

Main drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Wizard hat (blue)	1	Common	711
	Chef's hat	1	Uncommon	433
	Wizard robe top	1	Uncommon	487
	Wizard robe skirt	1	Common	547
	Bread	2	Common	646
	Cabbage	1	Common	900
	Egg	1	Uncommon	1,040
	Air talisman	1	Very rare	498
	Bronze bar	1	Very rare	929
	Bucket of milk	1	Very rare	611
	Gold bar	1	Very rare	1,168
	Oak stock	1	Very rare	42
	Black wizard hat	1	Very rare	324
	Clay	1	Very rare	340
	Frozen key piece (zamorak)	1	Random	Not sold
	Warpriest of Zamorak helm	1	Varies	Not sold
	Warpriest of Zamorak cuirass	1	Varies	Not sold
	Warpriest of Zamorak greaves	1	Varies	Not sold
	Warpriest of Zamorak gauntlets	1	Varies	Not sold
	Warpriest of Zamorak boots	1	Varies	Not sold
	Warpriest of Zamorak cape	1	Varies	Not sold
	Black bead	1	Uncommon	1,013
	Red bead	1	Uncommon	993
	White bead	1	Uncommon	980
	Yellow bead	1	Uncommon	1,004
	Mind rune	5	Common	95
	Earth rune	5	Common	90
	Water rune	5	Common	125
	Fire rune	5	Common	795
	Air rune	5	Common	450
	Body rune	5	Common	240
	Ashes	1	Uncommon	95
	Burnt meat	1	Uncommon	Not sold
	Wheat	1	Uncommon	193
	Grimy guam	1	Uncommon	709
	Clay	2	Uncommon	680
	Acne potion	1	Common	1,287
	Flier	1	Uncommon	Not sold

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Imp Champion's scroll(m)	1	Very rare	Not sold

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These drops are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,575

Hunter

At level 71 Hunter, players may hunt imps with magic boxes. Beads may be used as bait. Success yield imp-in-a-box which could be used to bank two items, after which it is reverted to a magic box.

The Karamja Volcano resource dungeon is the best location to hunt them by far due to high concentration of imps. One can take gold out of their Money Pouch to bank the imps, allowing the player to hunt continually.

For low levels, the south entrance of Falador may be a good idea. Players could kill or pickpocket from guards while waiting for imps to trigger the boxes.

Popular hunting locations

• North of Varrock Castle
• South of Falador
• White Knights' Castle in Falador
• On the path between Lumbridge and Draynor
• A dense area North of Yanille
• Varrock
• Volcano on Musa Point
• Northeast part of the Grand Exchange, around the spirit tree
• Around the Necromancer Tower, the Tower of Life (Fairy ring DJP), and the adjacent Monastery.
  • An excellent hunting spot is around the broken cart on the lighter grass area. Combining a ring of kinship with Ardougne cloak makes it easy to bank as well.
• Karamja Volcano resource dungeon (requires 25 to enter)

Note: Imps are not a good way to train Hunter as they cannot be released until 2 items/stacks have been banked, making this a fairly slow method of training. A way to speed training up is to bank full imp boxes with other imp boxes while catching them, this frees up one imp box for every three imps caught. Another method to speed up training is by using a snow globe to create snowballs, and then using the imps to bank the snowballs. This however leaves many snowballs in the bank which take time to destroy. Other similar methods involve fletching bolts and using an albino rat and scrolls to create cheese.

Gallery

A player shaking an imp to obtain a bauble

Official artwork of Robin Hood battling imps

Trivia

• During the 2005 Christmas event, imps in and around Varrock wore red or green coats and trousers, and players could shake the imps to acquire baubles for the event.
• Wizard Grayzag used to summon black imps to assist him in combat when he was attackable.
• At some point during December 2011 some imps seem to have been recoloured slightly darker.
• Imps used to look like a gnome wearing a demon costume.
• When killing an imp, if the imp teleports away right when it dies, its drops will appear where it supposedly "teleported" although it never appeared there.
• They were central to the Imp Catcher quest, having been summoned by Wizard Grayzag to hide 4 different colours of beads, all of which must be collected to complete the quest. However after the rework of said quest, the regular imp was replaced by four distinct imps specifically made for this quest.