Lesser demon

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This article is about the lesser demon outside of Daemonheim. For the lesser demon in Daemonheim, see Lesser demon (Daemonheim).

Lesser demon

File:Lesser.png
Release date	11 June 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Combat level	82
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Examine text	Lesser, but still pretty big. During Do No Evil: This demon is under Eruni's influence.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	79
Assigned by	Chaeldar, Vannaka
Combat info LP Max hit 790 85 (approx) Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No Unknown No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous Yes No Attack style Weaknesses Melee Magic Silverlight Silverlight Holy water

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Lesser demons (also known as lessers), are a kind of demon, weaker than the closely-related greater demons. They have a maximum hit of 87 damage, 790 life points, hit at the speed of a scimitar, and regenerate damage at an average rate of 20 life points per minute. Lesser demons found within Daemonheim can use magic as well as melee attacks. When assigned by Vannaka or Chaeldar as a slayer assignment, killing a demon grants 78.6 slayer experience. Previously, K'ril Tsutsaroth and his body guards were classified as lesser demons and could be defeated to receive Slayer experience. However, this was changed by Jagex and is no longer the case.

Medium level players sometimes kill these monsters for experience as they have low defence, especially against magic. Higher levels are recommended to avoid training on these monsters as they have poor drops for their level compared to similarly-levelled monsters (the rune med helm drop is too rare to amass decent profits). In free to play, players can train on cockroach soldiers as they have similar levels but much better drops. Keep in mind, though, that cockroach soldiers do not have the low defence that attracts so many players to train on lesser demons.

The lesser demon is the sixth strongest non-revenant, non-quest monster in free-to-play, only to be beaten by ankous in the Stronghold of Security, level 85 skeletons in the Stronghold of Security and Wilderness Volcano, cockroach soldiers in the Stronghold of Player Safety, greater demons in the Wilderness, and hellhounds in the Wilderness Volcano. They are very popular monsters to kill. One is fought as a boss in Melzar's Maze during Dragon Slayer in order to obtain the Green Key required for one of the map pieces. This is the fourth monster to have the title: Strongest Monster in RuneScape from RuneScape Classic. It was the strongest monster available to Instant Demo players.

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A safe spot in the Taverley Dungeon using the fire remains to hide behind.

Training

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Karamja safespot (1)

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Safespot (2)

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Safespot (3)

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Safespot (4)

Main article: Lesser Demon guide

Lesser demons are effective training monsters for players that are medium to high levelled (around mid 70s combat level). Since Karamja has many fishing spots, players may fish for food at the island if they run out, or as some players do is to go through the cave and go to the bank to Re-stock on food. Fighting lesser demons in the Wizards' Tower can be good for training Magic, Ranged, or alternatively melee using a halberd since the demon spawns inside of a cage. The respawn time of a lesser demon is quick, which means experience may be gained quickly killing them. It is recommended for meleers to wear strong armour such as adamant or rune and for rangers and mages take a few pieces of good food in case they are attacked while the lesser demons are aggressive.With rune armour and a good weapon, a level 50 player could easily kill a lesser demon, although a few pieces of food may be necessary. It is also recommended for mages and rangers to find some sort of safe spot from which they may attack.

The lesser demon is affected by the powers of Silverlight and Darklight, which increase damage inflicted by 60%. However, many players find these weapons to still be rather inaccurate. Instead, F2P players are recommended to use a rune weapon, preferably the scimitar, longsword, or battleaxe. Two-handed swords are very accurate on demons due to their slash bonus, but they are only recommended for players with good defence. Members should use a dragon weapon or barrows weapon; higher level weapons are not necessary for a monster of this level.

There is a safespot for ranging, maging, and halberding in the Taverley Dungeon which can be used once the demons are no longer aggressive. This is not a multicombat area so it is also possible to attack while hiding behind other demons. There are also three safespots for ranging, maging, and halberding in the Crandor and Karamja Dungeon that are very useful,

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The safespot created by the resource dungeon

however this dungeon often becomes crowded on non-member servers. In Crandor, there are two lesser demons to train on with a few safe spots. This is a good spot for rangers (wearing full d'hide and using arrows/bolts of steel or better is recommended).

New players who are using Magic or Ranged may go to the Wizards' Tower and kill the caged lesser demon. However, this spot often gets crowded, and players may not get much experience. Bringing a few air and law runes to tele-grab any good drops (such as the rune med helm) is advised. Otherwise, it will not be possible to pick up any of the demon's drops. With the recent update that introduced urns, it is possible to train prayer at this location as well, without using tele-grab; when the demon is slain, its accursed ashes are directly added to the accursed urn without any action by the player.

A rapid way to kill demons and bank their drops or pick up food is to use the explorer's ring 3. Cabbage-port, run to the pier, go to the Karamja dungeon, kill demons, cabbage-port when you have enough, and deposit the drops at the deposit box near the Entrana ship or pick up food at the Draynor bank. The ring will double up as an emergency teleport as it's animation is unhindered by attacks.

In addition, players may also train prayer at the Karamja location. There are two bone spawns that appear quite frequently in the volcano.

Locations and Places

Free-to-play (F2P)

• Wizards' Tower (caged) note:(can only be attacked by magic spells, ranged or Halberd in P2P) you can taunt and it will go rarrr!
• Crandor and Karamja Dungeon
• Karamja Volcano resource dungeon
• Crandor island
• Melzar's Maze (in the basement)
• Level 24 Wilderness, in the area between the Demonic Ruins and the Clan Wars arena.
• Lava Maze
• Wilderness Volcano

Members (P2P)

• Taverley Dungeon
• Temple of Ikov (dungeon), near the Guardians of Armadyl
• Viyeldi caves (used during the Legends' Quest)
• Champions' Guild basement, in the Champions' Challenge. (This is the Lesser Demon Champion which fights differently than regular lesser demons.)

Champions' Challenge

Lesser demons are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Lesser Demon Champion, the player must kill lesser demons until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop.

Drops

100% drops

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Charms (members Only)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Accursed ashes	1	Always	750

No charm
94%	2%	0.7–0.8%	3%	0.6–0.7%
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Weapons and armour

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Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Steel hatchet	1	Common	3,019
	Steel scimitar	1	Common	1,464
	Steel full helm	1	Common	1,065
	Black 2h sword	1	Uncommon	5,896
	Black kiteshield	1	Very rare	5,227
	Mithril sq shield	1	Uncommon	2,669
	Mithril chainbody	1	Uncommon	2,619
File:Rune med helm.png	Rune med helm	1	Rare	Error
	Rune spear	1	Rare	10,185
	Rune javelin	5	Very rare	905
	Dragon spear	1	Very rare	35,861
	Shield left half	1	Very rare	64,399

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Gems

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Chaos rune	7; 12; 13; 24	Common	1,064–3,648
	Death rune	3–6	Uncommon	696–1,392

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Herbs (members only)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Uncut sapphire	1	Uncommon	809
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	2,555
	Uncut ruby	1	Rare	1,842
	Uncut diamond	1	Very rare	4,843

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Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grimy guam	1	Rare	709
	Grimy tarromin	1	Rare	105
	Grimy marrentill	1	Rare	2,307
	Grimy harralander	1	Rare	741
	Grimy irit	1	Rare	5,008
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	Rare	8,476
	Grimy ranarr	1	Rare	1,860
	Grimy avantoe	1	Rare	1,043
	Grimy kwuarm	1	Rare	11,782
	Grimy cadantine	1	Rare	4,322
	Grimy lantadyme	1	Rare	7,551

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Varieties

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Lesserdemon.PNG

A lesser demon in a POH

Trivia

• As of the 29 August 2006 update, the lesser demons' appearances were tweaked by Jagex, giving the demons a more unique and distinguished look than prior to this update. There are also different "forms" of lesser demon that look different.
• The lesser demon located in the Wizard's Tower holds the name "Lemmy", as mentioned by Saradomin in one of his god letters. Another is named Carrot, from the first Postbag from the Hedge.
• One form of lesser demon, which has horns so short that they appear to be stubs, may be a reference to Hellboy, a comic book demon antihero.

See also

• Imp
• Greater demon
• Black demon
• Abyssal demon
• Revenant demon
• Lesser Demon Champion
• Treasure Room (player owned house)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	10–500	Common	10–500
	Jug of wine	1	Common	37
	Loop half of a key	1	Rare	11,053
	Tooth half of a key	1	Rare	11,538
	Mind talisman	1	Very rare	203
	Nature talisman	1	Very rare	1,473
	Chaos talisman	1	Very rare	1,923
	Cosmic talisman	1	Very rare	1,030
File:Lesserdemonscroll.PNG	Champion scroll (lesser demon)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Court Summons	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved Ancient Effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold

Preceded by	Title	Succeeded by
Ice giant	Strongest monster in RuneScape	Greater demon