Kephri Best in Slot Gear & Strategy Guide

Kephri lives in her own lecture-hall arena at the end of the Path of Scabaras, inside the Tombs of Amascut raid. There is no Slayer level or specific quest needed to fight her; entry is gated only by starting the raid, and the four paths can be cleared in any order. A common order is to fight Ba-Ba and Kephri with melee while Akkha and Zebak are handled later with ranged and magic.

Crucially, Kephri's difficulty scales with your raid's invocation (raid) level. With the Path Level invocations active, every two levels makes her auto-attacks faster, and during the shield recharge phase groups of three scarab swarms may appear instead of one — with the frequency of these increasing at raid level 4. Several of her own invocations (Lively Larvae, More Overlords, Blowing Mud, Medic!, Aerial Assault) further raise the difficulty, so a learner should keep the harder ones off.

Because Kephri is weakest to stab, the meta is a melee, stab-focused loadout. The wiki's recommended weapons for her are Osmumten's fang (which performs better at higher invocation levels), with the Keris partisan of breaching a strong option at lower invocation or with more Strength-boosting gear, plus the Keris partisan of amascut and plain Keris partisan as alternatives. Her fire weakness also means fire spells take 35–40% more damage if you prefer to chip with magic, though stab melee is the standard.

Rather than memorise an exact item list, plug your account into our Boss Gear Finder above to get the right setup for your level — or browse the wider melee gear tiers to see where you sit. If you are still building melee accuracy and damage, our strength and defence guides cover the stats that carry this fight.

The wiki recommends you pre-pot antipoison before entering Kephri: an antidote++ or an anti-venom potion is more than enough to carry you through, assuming the More Overlords invocation isn't active — this protects against the Spitting Scarab's poison. If you take poison protection, avoid stepping on venom pools left by cursed baboons earlier in the raid, as that removes the immunity.

Bring chinchompas for level 2 or higher Kephri to clear the trios of swarms that appear during the phase interlude; they are not required if swarms aren't trioing during the interlude. Damage-boosting rings such as an ultor or magus ring can be brought only if you can complete the raid with fewer supplies; a lightbearer is encouraged otherwise.

Fireball auto-attack. Kephri's main attack is a fireball she launches into the air every few ticks. A shadow forewarns the targeted tile(s) — move off it, or take immense damage. If you are hit, Protect from Magic mitigates roughly 66% of the damage.

Dung Strike. While shielded, Kephri can target a player for a Dung Strike, telegraphed by scarabs flying around that player. The scarabs scatter, then fling the player to the back of the arena (message: "Kephri throws you back!"), stunning them for 2 seconds, and piles of dung fall in that direction, limiting usable space. If there are no walkable tiles within ten tiles, the player instead takes rapid damage — a quick death — so keep room to be knocked into.

Mass Incubation. Kephri splatters eggs around the arena — small light eggs and large dark eggs. Left unattended they explode in a 3x3 area; the large dark eggs hatch Agile Scarabs that attack with ranged (very accurate, max hit 5). You deal your max hit on eggs regardless of combat style, so clear them quickly. If too many scarabs are present, Dung Strike is used in place of this attack.

Shield and the swarms. Kephri is protected by a shield that you must deplete. When it drops she becomes temporarily dazed and calls her "children" to restore one shield charge. Scarab swarms stream in from six edge spawn points and recharge her shield (~10% or lower per swarm), so they must be cleared — a fast ranged weapon like a blowpipe (or chinchompas for trios) handles them. You deal max damage to swarms, which have negative defence in all styles.

The child scarabs. Different thresholds spawn larger scarabs, all weak to stab like Kephri: a Spitting Scarab (ranged, poisons from 6, hits all players within 8 tiles — use Protect from Missiles and kill it fast), a Soldier Scarab (melee, launches swarms that recharge her shield or heal her), and an Arcane Scarab (charges an explosive swarm dealing well over 65 damage, ~66% reduced with Protect from Magic — focus it immediately). Bomber Scarabs mirror Kephri's own auto-attack.

Final phase. After two shield phases Kephri becomes vulnerable and can be attacked directly. After the third shield is cleared, the surrounding swarm dissipates and she uses a single Dung Strike on all players, marking the start of the final phase where her health is damaged directly. Her defence (which can be drained by up to 20, from base 80 to a minimum of 60) is reset for the final phase, and she no longer regenerates HP during it.

Enter and attack Kephri with a stab weapon, dodging her fireball auto-attack by stepping off the shadowed tiles each time. Drain her defence with a special attack (or dump damaging specs instead if you have no soulflame horn, since her high defence bonuses make stat-draining less efficient), then burn the shield down.

When the shield breaks and she summons her children, deal with them before resuming: pray Protect from Missiles against the Spitting Scarab and kill it quickly, focus the Arcane Scarab immediately so its explosive swarm never charges, and clear incoming scarab swarms so they don't recharge her shield — note only the first 18 of 28 swarms heal her in the first intermission, and the first 14 of 24 in the second. A solo player will usually leak about three swarms onto Kephri done properly. After two shield phases she becomes directly attackable; for the final transition, only phase her when Dung Strike isn't in use, or a chained knockback can stun-lock you into a bad position.

Kephri does not drop combat uniques on her kill — the Tombs of Amascut's gear rewards come from the chest at the end of the raid, not from the boss directly. On the wiki's own drop table, defeating Kephri awards Scabaras' capture (a lore item, received only if you don't already have it banked) and Scarab dung (received by whoever dealt the most damage to her). For the actual unique rewards a successful raid can yield, consult the Tombs of Amascut reward chest rather than Kephri's personal drop table.

• Standing in the fireball shadow. The shadow telegraphs where the fireball lands — step off it every time, as a hit deals immense damage (only ~66% mitigated by Protect from Magic).
• Ignoring the Arcane Scarab. Left to charge, its explosive swarm deals well over 65 damage; focus it immediately and pray Magic if it does go off.
• Letting swarms reach Kephri. Each leaked swarm recharges her shield ~10%, prolonging the fight — clear them with a fast ranged weapon or chinchompas.
• No anti-poison. The Spitting Scarab poisons from 6 and hits through prayer; pre-pot antidote++ or anti-venom before entering.
• Phasing during Dung Strike. Transitioning while the attack is in use can chain-knockback and stun-lock you into a bad spot — only phase when it isn't active.
• Letting eggs hatch. Unattended dark eggs hatch Agile Scarabs and explode in a 3x3; clear eggs quickly (you hit max on them in any style).