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OSRS Ankou Guide

23.04.2024 - 15:47:09
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OSRS Ankou Guide

It’s hard to take a pick which of the monsters in Gielinor are the scariest. However, if you were to ask any player their choice, they’d probably choose the terrifying Ankous. These skeletal ghosts are far more dangerous than they look and can easily overwhelm you if you aren’t prepared.

As Slayer monsters, you can get Ankou tasks from masters Nieve/Steve, Vannaka, Krystilia, Konar quo maten, and Krystillia.

Where To Find Ankou In OSRS

Ankous can be found in many areas of the world and their levels range from 75-95. Some Ankous are only accessible in P2P areas but luckily, you can still fight them in a few F2P areas. Ankous come in groups at all of their spawns so take caution when fighting them.

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Notes
The Forgotten Cemetery	86	No	21	You can safely kill the Ankous here because of a safespot near the southwest coffin. It’s on the square that’s located where a bone spawns.
Stronghold of Security: Sepulchre of Death	82, 86	No	23	You can safespot the Ankous here by going to the southwestern room. There’s a skeleton on the southeast that you can stand south of to start safespotting the Ankous. This is highly advisable as there’s a large number of Ankous here.
Stronghold of Security: Sepulchre of Death	75	No	9	Relatively weaker Ankous that spawn in small numbers. Great for training your build or strategies against these monsters.
Stronghold Slayer Cave	75, 82, 86	Yes	8	One of the most popular areas for farming Ankous because its highly accessible. You can also use a dwarf multicannon while in the area.
Wilderness Slayer Cave	98	Yes	10	Killing the Ankous here becomes a bit problematic because you’re going up against PK’ers as well. Reduce the risk significantly by preparing a level 30 Wilderness teleport.
Catacombs of Kourend	95	Yes	10	The Ankous here are relatively strong. The good news is that you can bury bones in the area which will help you recover some Prayer Points. Bring a bonecrusher with you so that you can stay safe with Prayers during the task.

Ankou Variants

Monster	Combat level	Slayer XP	Locations	Notes
Ankou	75, 82, 86, 95, 98	60, 65, 70, 60, 100	Catacombs of Kourend Stronghold of Security: Sepulchre of Death Stronghold Slayer Cave The Forgotten Cemetery Wilderness Slayer Cave	These Ankous are the regular ones. They spawn in groups and can easily overwhelm you if you’re not prepared well. Many of the ankous here are in areas where you can use the dwarf multicannon.
Dark Ankou	95	60	Catacombs of Kourend	Dark ankous are just recolored version of regular ankous that are summoned during the fight with Skotizo. As with any other monster that appears during that fight, they’re not worth fighting and it’s best to focus just on the boss.

Tips For Killing Ankous

As with any other monster on a Slayer task, it’s very important to fight Ankous while you’re wearing a Slayer Helmet so that you get the sweet bonuses of it. While Ankous are beatable even without a Slayer Helmet, the risk of dying becomes higher, especially when you get surrounded.

If fighting them off of a Slayer task, you can use the Salve Amulet instead. The effects of the item on undead creatures. If you have this on, you can get a 16.67% increase in your Attack and Strength when fighting against any undead monster including Ankous.

If you have both the Salve Amulet and the Slayer Helm at the same time, the bonuses won’t stack on top of one another. Instead, the game will prioritize the effects of the Salve Amulet first. Both are very effective and just choose to wear one that fits your current build. To get a Salve Amulet, you first have to beat the Haunted Mine quest.

We highly suggest using the dwarf multicannon wherever it's accessible when doing Ankou Slayer tasks. This is useable in the Stronghold Slayer Cave and the Wilderness Slayer Cave. This makes the fight a lot easier than it is and it can save you time as well. If you’re in the Catacombs of Kourend, you can use burst or barrage attacks to kill Ankous but you’ll need to get their aggro until their stacked together properly.

Now, if you want to farm Ankous in specific areas, here are a few things to consider:

The Forgotten Cemetery

As this is a level 30 Wilderness, you need to be very careful against PKers, as well as other players inside the area. Once you’re inside, rush for the safespot located at the southwest coffin. You’ll know you’re in the right place if there’s a bone spawn nearby. Once there, you can use range or magic to start killing Ankous.

Stronghold Slayer Cave

This is one of the areas where you can use the dwarf multicannon for the fight. If you don’t have it in your inventory, you can instead try to get an Ankou stuck around the corners of an area where there’s a pile of rocks. It can be tricky but you’ll have to get the Ankou to walk on a northern corner tile, and then have them stand one tile either north or south of them. Once that’s done, move into the southern tile to keep the Ankous stuck. It might take a few tries but it’s worth it.

You can keep a single Ankou stock on the rockslide itself but you’ll still be susceptible to other ankous while this is happening.

Stronghold of Security: Sepulchre of Death

The dwarf multicannon is also available here but if you want a safespot to kill Ankous, you should go to the southwest room first. Once inside, head south and look for a skeleton in the south-easternmost area. Stand here and start attacking Ankous using ranged or melee for a quick kill.

Ankou Rewards

Ankous drop many great rewards. It’s different one whether you’re killing ones in a P2P/F2P world or in the Wilderness. Because of their great rewards, they’re a viable way to make money in your mid-game journey.

If you can kill around 185 Ankous per hour, you have an expected profit of 86,595. This could change depending on a lot of factors including your precision at killing them, and of course, luck.

Of all the ankous in the game, the bet ones to fight for money making are those in the fourth floor of the Stronghold of Security or those in the Catacombs. Try to avoid the ones in the Wilderness as much as possible because they’re riskier to kill.

The goal when fighting Ankous is to farm high-value items like death runes, blood runes, noted mithril ore and noted pure essence, and even hard clue scrolls. The good thing about Ankous is that it’s easy to get their aggro, making Ankou slaying methods potentially AFK.

If you’re really going to farm the ones in the Wilderness, you can get dark fishing bait as drops as well. However, as the risks involved is significantly greater, we highly suggest going to other areas instead.

P2P World Drop Table

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price
Adamant arrow	5–14	1/100	55–154
Ancient shard	1	1/293	Not sold
Avantoe seed	1	1/8,733.3	5,289
Bass	1	2/100	104
Belladonna seed	1	1/5,822.2	93
Black knife	1	1/100	53
Black robe	1	1/100	1,055
Blood rune	5	1/33.33	1,230
Blood rune	11	6/100	2,706
Brimstone key	1	1/225–1/139	Not sold
Cadantine seed	1	1/26,200	7,103
Cactus seed	1	1/8,733.3	39
Chaos talisman	1	1/2,133	50
Clue scroll (elite)	1	Always	Not sold
Clue scroll (hard)	1	1/512; 1/256	Not sold
Coins	5–204	10/100	5–204
Coins	8	33/100	8
Dark fishing bait	60	33/100	300
Dark totem base	1	1/440	Not sold
Dark totem middle	1	1/440	Not sold
Dark totem top	1	1/440	Not sold
Death rune	10	10/100	1,770
Dragon spear	1	1/273,067	39,757
Dwarf weed seed	1	1/52,400	518
Fried mushrooms	1	1/100	85
Gem drop table	-	1/100.2	-
Grimy avantoe	1	1/711.1	4,016
Grimy cadantine	1	1/1,066	3,875
Grimy dwarf weed	1	1/1,422	2,183
Grimy guam leaf	1	1/133.3	199
Grimy harralander	1	1/304.8	411
Grimy irit leaf	1	1/533.3	1,024
Grimy kwuarm	1	1/853.3	3,214
Grimy lantadyme	1	1/1,422	1,317
Grimy marrentill	1	1/177.8	74
Grimy ranarr weed	1	1/387.9	6,434
Grimy tarromin	1	1/237	111
Harralander seed	1	1/1,871	10
Irit seed	1	1/5,822.2	65
Jangerberry seed	1	1/1,139	1
Kwuarm seed	1	1/11,644.4	1,198
Lantadyme seed	1	1/34,933.3	344
Left skull half	1	3/100	Not sold
Limpwurt seed	1	1/765	5
Loop half of key	1	1/6,400	9,683
Marrentill seed	1	1/838.4	7
Mithril ore	3–7 (noted)	2/100	483–1,127
Mushroom spore	1	1/3,613.8	48
Nature talisman	1	1/2,133	137
Poison ivy seed	1	1/8,061.5	10
Potato cactus seed	1	1/13,100	3
Pure essence	15 (noted)	5/100	15
Ranarr seed	1	1/2,687.2	25,338
Reward casket (elite)	1	Always	Not sold
Rune javelin	5	1/6,400	870
Rune spear	1	1/102,400	11,645
Shield left half	1	1/204,800	65,104
Snape grass seed	1	1/2,620	6,972
Strawberry seed	1	1/800	3
Tarromin seed	1	1/1,232.9	6
Toadflax seed	1	1/3,881.5	951
Tooth half of key	1	1/6,400	10,131
Torstol seed	1	1/104,800	6,077
Uncut diamond	1	1/3,200	1,947
Uncut emerald	1	1/400	429
Uncut ruby	1	1/800	886
Uncut sapphire	1	1/200	213
Watermelon seed	1	1/1,663.5	5
Weapon poison	1	1/50	279
Whiteberry seed	1	1/3,082.4	2
Wildblood seed	1	1/1,262.7	10

F2P World Drop Table

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price
Black robe	1	5/100	1,055
Bones	1	Always	83
Coins	5–204	10/100	5–204
Coins	10	3/100	10
Coins	5	1/100	5
Fishing bait	60	33/100	180
Left skull half	1	3/100	Not sold
Loop half of key	1	1/6,400	9,683
Mithril ore	3–7 (noted)	5/100	483–1,127
Rune essence	15 (noted)	5/100	165
Rune javelin	5	1/6,400	870
Rune spear	1	1/102,400	11,645
Shield left half	1	1/204,800	65,104
Tooth half of key	1	1/6,400	10,131
Uncut diamond	1	1/3,200	1,947
Uncut emerald	1	1/400	429
Uncut ruby	1	1/800	886
Uncut sapphire	1	1/200	213
Unknown talisman	1	1/2,133.33	Not sold
Dragon spear	1	1/273,067	39,757

Wilderness Slayer Cave Drop Table

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price
Adamant platelegs	1	1/92	3,417
Blood rune	8	1/46	1,968
Blood rune	11	1/30.67	2,706
Blood rune	18	1/92	4,428
Bones	1	Always	83
Cadantine seed	1	1/24,104	7,103
Cactus seed	1	1/8,035	39
Chaos talisman	1	1/2,027	50
Clue scroll (elite)	1	Always	Not sold
Clue scroll (hard)	1	1/256	Not sold
Coins	500–999	1/9.5	500–999
Dark fishing bait	60	57/92	300
Death rune	15	1/30.67	2,655
Death rune	17	1/30.67	3,009
Dragon spear	1	1/259,413	39,757
Dwarf weed seed	1	1/48,208	518
Grimy avantoe	1	1/654.2	4,016
Grimy cadantine	1	1/981.3	3,875
Grimy dwarf weed	1	1/1,308	2,183
Grimy guam leaf	1	1/122.7	199
Grimy harralander	1	1/280.4	411
Grimy irit leaf	1	1/490.7	1,024
Grimy kwuarm	1	1/785.1	3,214
Grimy lantadyme	1	1/1,308	1,317
Grimy marrentill	1	1/163.6	74
Grimy ranarr weed	1	1/356.8	6,434
Grimy tarromin	1	1/218.1	111
Harralander seed	1	1/1,722	10
Irit seed	1	1/5,356	65
Jangerberry seed	1	1/1,048	1
Kwuarm seed	1	1/10,713	1,198
Lantadyme seed	1	1/32,139	344
Larran's key	1	1/82	131,611
Limpwurt seed	1	1/703.8	5
Loop half of key	1	1/6,080	9,683
Looting bag	1	1/3	Not sold
Marrentill seed	1	1/771.3	7
Mushroom spore	1	1/3,325	48
Mithril ore	3–7 (noted)	1/46	483–1,127
Poison ivy seed	1	1/7,417	10
Potato cactus seed	1	1/12,052	3
Ranarr seed	1	1/2,472	25,338
Reward casket (elite)	1	Always	Not sold
Rune arrow	5–14	1/23	435–1,218
Rune javelin	5	1/6,080	870
Rune spear	1	1/97,280	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/5,789	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/97,280	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/5,789	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/97,280	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/5,789	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/97,280	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/5,789	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/97,280	11,645
Rune spear	1	1/5,789	11,645
Shield left half	1	1/194,560	65,104
Snapdragon seed	1	1/19,283	33,930
Slayer's enchantment	1	1/240	1,157
Snape grass seed	1	1/2,410	6,972
Strawberry seed	1	1/736	3
Tarromin seed	1	1/1,134	6
Tooth half of key	1	1/6,080	10,131
Torstol seed	1	1/96,416	6,077
Uncut diamond	1	1/3,040	1,947
Uncut emerald	1	1/380	429
Uncut ruby	1	1/760	886
Uncut sapphire	1	1/190	213
Watermelon seed	1	1/1,530	5
Whiteberry seed	1	1/2,836	2
Wildblood seed	1	1/1,162	10

Another Slayer Task Down

With this guide, you shouldn’t have any worries when fighting the Ankous anymore. They look scary and tough but as with any other monster in the game, killing them is easy once you know the trick to it.