Abyssal Demon Best in Slot Gear & Strategy Guide

Abyssal demons are one of the strongest types of demons in Old School RuneScape, and you need level 85 Slayer before you can damage one at all. They sit at combat level 124 with 150 Hitpoints, and despite that high combat level their max hit is only 8 — the wiki itself notes this is low for their combat level. They attack with a Stab style on a 4-tick attack speed, and while they have relatively high accuracy, that modest max hit makes them comfortable to grind through once you meet the Slayer requirement.

Alongside their boss variant, the Abyssal Sire, abyssal demons are the only creatures in the game that drop the abyssal whip and the abyssal dagger, which is the main reason they remain a popular Slayer target years after release. They are not aggressive and not poisonous, so you control the pace of the fight. Being demons, they are also affected by demonbane weapons, which is worth keeping in mind when you pick what to bring.

The hard gate is 85 Slayer — without it you cannot deal any damage to an abyssal demon, so this is a members-only, mid-to-late-game Slayer monster. They can be assigned as a Slayer task by Vannaka, Chaeldar, Konar quo Maten, Nieve, Duradel, and Krystilia, so most of the standard Slayer masters can hand them out.

You can find abyssal demons in five places. The original spawn is the Abyssal Area, reachable through the fairy ring code alr. They also live in the Catacombs of Kourend, on the second floor of the Slayer Tower, in the Slayer Tower basement, and in the Wilderness Slayer Cave. Note that killing an abyssal demon specifically in the Slayer Tower is a requirement for the Morytania elite diary, and since 2017 the demons in the Slayer Tower basement also count toward that achievement diary. If you want to bank-and-return efficiently, your Defence level and food supply matter more than the exact location, since all of these spawns share the same monster stats.

Mechanically, abyssal demons are simple in their attacks but have one signature trick: teleporting. When you land a successful hit on an abyssal demon, it has a 1/6 chance to teleport itself away. If that first roll fails, it then has a 1/3 chance to teleport you away instead. Because of this, the wiki is explicit that safespotting is not viable here — you cannot tuck behind a wall and pick them off, because the demon will simply relocate. Abyssal demons can teleport players up to 20 tiles away.

The practical consequences are worth planning around. When you get teleported, you stop attacking the demon, so turning on Auto Retaliate helps make sure you keep fighting back after a forced teleport rather than standing idle. If the forced player-teleport is disrupting your trips, it can be avoided entirely by reading a Teleport anchoring scroll, which stops the demon from moving you. Beyond the teleporting, the fight itself is a straightforward melee grind: a single Stab attack on a 4-tick timer with a max hit of 8, so sustained Prayer protection is rarely the bottleneck — food and supplies are.

The wiki does not publish a dedicated strategy or prayer setup for abyssal demons, so rather than guess, lean on what the page does state. Defensively, abyssal demons have a stab, slash, and crush defence bonus of +20 each, while their magic defence bonus is 0, and they have no offensive Magic or Ranged stats of their own. The single hard fact for weapon choice is that, as demons, they are affected by demonbane weapons, so a demonbane option is a legitimate consideration if you own one.

For your accuracy you will care about your Attack and Strength levels for melee output, or your Ranged setup if you prefer to fight from a distance. Rather than list specific items the wiki does not endorse, use our boss gear finder to build a loadout around your stats and budget, and browse melee gear options to round out the trip. You can also check current item prices on the GE price tracker before committing to an upgrade.

The headline rewards are the two abyssal weapons. The abyssal whip drops at a rate of 1/512, and the abyssal dagger is far rarer at 1/32,000 — the dagger was added to their drop table in June 2016. Every abyssal demon also drops 1 abyssal ashes as a guaranteed 100% drop (they were changed to drop abyssal ashes in place of regular ashes in 2021).

Beyond the weapons, the standard drop table (rated out of /128) includes runes such as 50 air runes (8/128), 10 chaos runes (7/128), 7 blood runes (4/128), and 3 law runes (1/128), plus herbs (19/128), 60 noted pure essence (5/128), an adamantite bar (2/128), and a rune chainbody, rune med helm, and mithril kiteshield (1/128 each). Tertiary drops include the ensouled abyssal head (1/25), a hard clue scroll (1/128), an elite clue scroll (1/1200), and the very rare abyssal head at 1/6000. When killed on a Konar task, they can drop a brimstone key. If you are killing them in the Wilderness Slayer Cave instead, they additionally drop a looting bag at 1/3, which the standard spawns do not. All rates above are from the standard/Catacombs drop table to keep the denominators consistent.

• Hit the Slayer gate first. You cannot damage abyssal demons at all below 85 Slayer, so there is no point bringing one as anything other than a leveled Slayer target.
• Keep Auto Retaliate on. Because a successful hit can teleport you up to 20 tiles away and stops you attacking, Auto Retaliate keeps you fighting after the forced relocation instead of standing idle.
• Bring a Teleport anchoring scroll if the teleports annoy you. Reading one prevents the demon from teleporting you, which is the single biggest quality-of-life fix for the fight.
• Don't plan to safespot. The teleport mechanic means safespotting simply does not work on abyssal demons — expect to tank their hits and bring food to match your Hitpoints.
• Consider a demonbane weapon. As demons, they take extra punishment from demonbane weapons, which is the one weapon-type advantage the wiki confirms.