Mutated jadinko guard

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Mutated jadinko guard

Release date	12 July 2011 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	145
Life points	2030
Experience for killing	812 (271 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 86
Slayer XP	213
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Aggressive?	No
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Magic, melee
Attack speed	FastestInterval: 2.4 seconds
Max hit	279
Weakness	sagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas,, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab,sagaies, bolas, ranged,, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashsagaies, bolas, ranged, stab, slashSagaies, Bolas, Ranged, Stab, Slash
Always drops	Excrescence, Mutated vine
Examine text	They're supposed to protect the Queen, but this one has mutated.

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Mutated jadinko guards appear in the Jadinko Lair east of Shilo Village, on Karamja, and require a Slayer level of 86 to kill. They are popular for the whip vine drop, as they are the only monsters besides mutated jadinko males to drop it. Using bolas on it will cause it to attack you with the nearest jade roots. Mutated jadinko guards are considerably more dangerous than their combat level suggests; having a max hit of 279, and 2030 hitpoints, a string of lucky hits can quickly kill a player. In addition, they will switch attack styles based on your protection prayers and are difficult to safespot, so it is nearly impossible to negate all damage. While their strength and health may be very high, they have somewhat low accuracy and defence, however.

Each one killed will yield 7 favour points with the jadinkos.

Attacks

Mutated jadinko guards, along with males and babies, share a similar melee and magic attack. However a guard's melee attack is strong and occasionally hits above 200. Their magic attack is also high-hitting, but it doesn't hit often with even 95 magic defence bonuses. Using protection/deflection prayers will cause them to use the other attack they have to thwart prayer flashing on them. If players use Deflect/Protect from magic and they are unable to attack you, they will attempt a whip attack with nearby vines. but the vines hit extremely low, from 1-17. This attack is also triggered when a player targets a dreadnip to attack a mutated jadinko guard. They can bid multiple vines, along with males to attack you. So if a player were to stand near middle and there were 5 vines around him and the guard/male could not reach them, it will bid all five of them to attack the player at once, which is more dangerous than the standard attacks.

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Excrescence	2–5	1 Always	Not sold
Mutated vine	Mutated vine	2–6	1 Always	48–144

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy ranarr	1 (noted)	2 Common	3,508
	Grimy toadflax	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,724
	Grimy spirit weed	1 (noted)	2 Common	3,999
	Grimy irit	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,496
	Grimy wergali	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,082
	Grimy avantoe	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,877
	Grimy cadantine	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,336
	Grimy kwuarm	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,902
	Grimy snapdragon	1 (noted)	4 Rare	5,660
	Grimy lantadyme	1 (noted)	4 Rare	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1 (noted)	4 Rare	7,525
	Grimy torstol	1 (noted)	4 Rare	27,934

Jadinko fruit

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Common fruit	1	2 Common	Not sold
	Amphibious fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Aquatic fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Camouflaged fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Carrion fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Diseased fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Draconic fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Guthix fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Saradomin fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Shadow fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Zamorak fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Cannibal fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Igneous fruit	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Red blossom seed	1	2 Common	16
	Green blossom seed	1	2 Common	6
	Blue blossom seed	1	2 Common	18
Strawberry seed	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	92
	Watermelon seed	1	2 Common	1,861
	Marrentill seed	1	2 Common	3
	Tarromin seed	1	2 Common	7
	Harralander seed	1	2 Common	4
	Ranarr seed	1	2 Common	2,935
	Toadflax seed	1	2 Common	989
	Irit seed	1	2 Common	100
	Fellstalk seed	2	2 Common	2,052
Limpwurt seed	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	147
Poison ivy seed	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	31
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	7
Wildblood seed	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
	Spirit weed seed	1	3 Uncommon	3,869
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	24
Jangerberry seed	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
	Avantoe seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,306
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	26,078
	Lantadyme seed	1	4 Rare	28,328
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	43,732
	Torstol seed	1	4 Rare	274,040
Cactus seed	Cactus seed	1	5 Very rare	20

Others

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Juju teleport spiritbag	1	2 Common	2,159
	Magic logs	2–10 (noted)	2 Common	2,806–14,030
	Mahogany logs	13–17 (noted)	2 Common	6,851–8,959
	Yew logs	13–17 (noted)	2 Common	6,422–8,398
	Anagogic ort	20	3 Uncommon <ref>Only with another drop.</ref>	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Curved bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Long bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Whip vine	1	5 Very rare <ref>Estimated at 1/1,949 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.</ref>	3,165,947

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Trivia

• It is strange how they can drop Long bones and Curved bones since as Sentient plants they do not possess a skeleton and therefore have no bones to drop. They do not drop big bones as a 100% drop either but it's the case for all other creatures that drop Long bones and Curved bones.
• Their magic attacks, along with other mutated jadinkos, seem to be the equlivant of a Fire blast spell.
• If they manage to hit you with their magic attack, after the projectile reaches you, there's a one second delay before the damage shows up. It is unknown if it affects the babies or males, and might be an oversight from Jagex.