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

Also called	Lessers
Release date	11 June 2001 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	82
Life points	790
Experience for killing	316 (105 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	79
Assigned by	Chaeldar, Vannaka
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	84
Weakness	[[]](fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fires in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, [[holy]], slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic( spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, [[attack types|]] attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksmagic(fire spells in particular), silverlight, darklight, holy water, slash attacksMagic(Fire spells in particular), Silverlight, Darklight, holy water, slash attacks
Always drops	Accursed ashes, Green Key (Melzar's Maze only)
Examine text	Lesser, but still pretty big. During Do No Evil: This demon is under Eruni's influence.

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Lesser demons (commonly known as lessers), are a kind of demon, weaker than the closely-related greater demons. They have a maximum hit of 84 damage, 790 life points, hit at the speed of a scimitar, and regenerate 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. Also, safe spotting demons and using a prayer urn to collect the accursed ashes they drop can be a suitable method of training prayer for players lacking the sufficient combat level to face them directly. Higher levels are recommended to avoid training on these monsters as they have poor drops for their level compared to similarly-leveled monsters (the rune 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. Also, cockroaches don't drop ashes or bones, so they can't be used to train prayer. 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.

File:TaverleyDungeonDemonSafeSpot.png

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

Training

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 on the island if they run out, or members can go through the cave and go to the bank in TzHaar City 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, rune or Barrows armour for meleers, and rangers and mages should 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.

Lesser demons are 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. F2P players are instead 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, as they are two-handed. 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, 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). Some of these safespots may not work anymore.

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 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 or higher. 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 its animation is unhindered by attacks. This method was somewhat outdated with the introduction of lodestones; the Port Sarim lodestone in combination with the Edgeville stone and bank may be faster. However, the cabbage-port function is possible more effective, as teleporting to the Port Sarim Lodestone quite frequently results in a glitch where the game stops loading at 50%, forcing the player to restart the applet. Also, lodestone teleport is interupted by combat and cannot be used as an emergency teleport.

Prayer Training (F2P)

Medium-Higher level players using melee or any safe-spotters may opt to use these for free prayer training, in conjunction with accursed urns. With 790 LP, Assuming the player can kill at a rate of 1 per 15–30 seconds, one could earn 375xp per 6–13 minutes, averaging 37.5xp/min. At this rate, if compared to big bones, one would save 61800 coins an hour. Optimally, if one could defeat one lesser every 10 seconds, this rate would become 900xp/min, or 148320 coins an hour. This method can be extremely effective as it saves time by not having to pick up and scatter ashes, and is highly effective for rangers or mages that do not want to leave the safe spot, saving precious money already lost through runes or arrows.

In addition, players training at the Karamja volcano have the option of picking up two regular bone spawns that appear quite frequently.

Locations and Places

Free-to-play (F2P)

• Wizards' Tower (caged). Note: can only be attacked by magic spells, ranged or halberd. Can be taunted to make it say "Graaaagh!".
• Crandor and Karamja Dungeon
• Karamja Volcano resource dungeon
• Crandor island
• Melzar's Maze basement
• Level 42-47 Wilderness, in the Demonic Ruins area.
• Lava Maze
• Wilderness Volcano
• Forinthry Dungeon

Members (P2P)

• Taverley Dungeon
• Temple of Ikov dungeon, near the Guardians of Armadyl
• Viyeldi caves (used during the Legends' Quest)
• Champions' Guild basement, during 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 an extremely rare drop (1 in 5000).

Drops

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Accursed ashes	1	1 Always	400

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Steel hatchet	1	2 Common	49
	Steel scimitar	1	2 Common	130
	Steel full helm	1	2 Common	219
	Black 2h sword	1	2 Common	1,044
	Mithril sq shield	1	3 Uncommon	793
	Mithril chainbody	1	3 Uncommon	1,039
	Rune helm	1	3 Uncommon	11,283
	Black kiteshield	1	4 Rare	2,759

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Fire rune	6,30, 37, 45, 60, 120	3 Uncommon	84–1,680
	Chaos rune	7, 12, 13, 24	3 Uncommon	602–2,064
	Death rune	3,6	4 Rare	555–1,110

Herbs (members only)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	4 Rare	521
	Grimy tarromin	1	4 Rare	56
	Grimy marrentill	1	4 Rare	41
	Grimy harralander	1	4 Rare	385
	Grimy irit	1	4 Rare	1,496
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	4 Rare	7,525
	Grimy ranarr	1	4 Rare	3,508
	Grimy avantoe	1	4 Rare	2,877
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,902
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	1,336
	Grimy lantadyme	1	4 Rare	6,002

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	10, 40, 120, 450, 650	2 Common	Not sold
	Gold ore	1–3 (2 or 3 noted)	3 Uncommon	228–684
	Jug of wine	1	3 Uncommon	80
	Spin Ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
File:Champion's scroll (lesser demon).png	Champion scroll (lesser demon) (m)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Court Summons (m)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy (m)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Clue scroll (medium) (m)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 810 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,295 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 2,613 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 9,402 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,758 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 9,520 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 13,572 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 10,393 Dragon dagger 1 2 Common 17,356 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,285 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 800 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,130 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 40,021 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 867,800 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 34,977 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,553 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 60,107 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 31,600 Rune arrow 150–200, 500 4 Rare 28,500–95,000 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,315,350 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,200 Air orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,216,000 Fire orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,406,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 457,724 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,485 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,650–28,910 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 48,450–67,830 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 137 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 165 Pure essence 500–15000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 53,500–1,605,000 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare – Soul rune 20 4 Rare 6,360 Death rune 50, 121 4 Rare 9,250–22,385 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 9,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250, 1000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,875–303,000 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 129,750–259,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,650–175,500 Coal 150–7500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,450–1,972,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 248,250–1,324,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 9,200 Adamant bar 1000–7000 (noted) 4 Rare 2,175,000–15,225,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,067,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,029–1,954,350 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 115,665 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 69,100–691,000 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 168,210–672,840 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 277,960–2,779,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 854,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,583 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 84,903–4,245,150 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 294,483–1,766,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,219,220 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 274,040–8,495,240 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 2,052 Yew logs 100–20000 (noted) 4 Rare 49,400–9,880,000

Varieties

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  A lesser demon in a POH

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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.
  • In another update, their defending animation and sounds were updated.
• The lesser demon located in the Wizards' tower holds the name "Lemmy", as mentioned by Saradomin in one of his god letters. However, in the 2011 Christmas event it is called Timmy. Another is named Carrot, from the first Postbag from the Hedge.
• The lesser demons located in Karamja is one of the locations you will see The Raptor

See also

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

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