Free-to-play Melee training

• No food required.
• Feathers are dropped in groups of 5-15 and are stackable, and can be sold for some profit.
• Bones will drop frequently, allowing the player to train their Prayer as well.

• Only 3 HP (12xp) per kill. Once you start hitting 4's with your Strength and weapon, chickens are no longer a good melee training monster but they are still good for training Prayer and collecting feathers.
• Non-aggressive.

• No food required as you can ask monks to heal you for free.
• Good training for 1 Defence pures.
• 15 HP (60xp) per kill plus more experience per kill if they heal themselves for 2 HP. Players can continue killing monks towards Level 20 melee skills.

• No drops other than bones
• Non-aggressive.

• 10 HP (40xp) per kill from the level 3 seagulls.
• Seagulls cannot hit you, making it viable for no-damage accounts.

• No drops other than bones.
• A long death animation before dropping bones.
• Non-aggressive.

• They always drop raw rat meat, which can be cooked for Cooking XP and heal for 3 hitpoints.

• No valuable drops.
• Lumbridge Swamp may be crowded and giant rats are slightly distanced from each other.
• They have a tendency to hit 1's on players with little defence and no armour.
• Non-aggressive.

• High HP, low defence.
• Near the Grand Exchange and Varrock west bank for easy banking.
• Occassionally drops runes and ammunition.
• They have access to the gem drop table and very rarely drop uncut gems.
• With combat levels ranging between 9 and 17, a lowest HP of 18 and a highest HP of 24, they provide decent experience and are relatively weak.

• Sometimes crowded.

• High HP (18 HP for 72 melee experience per kill), low defence, they deal little damage, and are close to Giant frogs in both location and experience.
• Lower level and accuracy means they will damage the player less often, a great alternative to the potentially crowded Giant frogs.
• For lower level players, food isn't required if an axe and tinderbox is brought (kill nearby giant rats for raw rat meat and make a fire using a nearby dead tree)
• Arguably better than Giant frogs due to higher volume of spawns, lower overall combat stats meaning quicker kills, and relatively close experience rates.

• Sometimes crowded.
• No valuable drops other than a beginner clue scroll to solve.
• Does NOT drop Big bones like Giant frogs.

• High HP (23 HP for 92 melee experience per kill), low defence, and they deal little damage.
• Always drops Big bones which can be sold for guaranteed profit (311) or used for Prayer experience while training.
• They rarely drop beginner clue scrolls.
• For lower level players, food isn't required if an axe and tinderbox is brought (kill nearby giant rats for raw rat meat and make a fire using a nearby dead tree)

• Sometimes crowded.
• No valuable drops other than a beginner clue scroll to solve.

• They only deal 1 HP of damage but higher level Flesh Crawlers can hit quite accurately.
• Always aggressive towards players of all levels, making this a great afk training method at any level.
• They have access to the gem drop table and rarely drop uncut gems.

• No bone drops.
• Higher level Flesh Crawlers will quickly damage players, even if it is just 1 HP per hit as they have a very fast attack speed of 1.8 seconds per attack.
• Not as profitable in free-to-play as other monsters around these levels. They are only profitable in member worlds.

• The zombies in the Stronghold of Security are a decent alternative to Flesh Crawlers.
• They are aggressive towards players up to twice their combat level + 1.
• They have access to the gem drop table and very rarely drop uncut gems.

• By Combat Level 107, zombies in the Stronghold of Security are no longer aggressive.
• Not as profitable in free-to-play as other monsters around these levels. They are only profitable in member worlds.

If retrieving food from the Edgeville bank for longer trips, bring 1 or 2 strength potions and the rest should be anchovy pizzas or swordfish.

• Always aggressive towards players of all levels, making this a great afk training method at any level to 99 and beyond.
  • After aggression ends in 10 minutes, if the player is training among the giant spiders just north of the ladder upon entering the first room of giant spiders from the ladder, players can re-aggro them by running to the end of the corners of the room of giant spiders: Top-left corner of the room after the first 10 minutes, then top-right corner of the room after the next 10 minutes, then bottom-right corner of the room after the next 10 minutes, repeat. If this doesn't seem to work (as in if aggressive areas covers the entire room, usually due to random events teleporting the player), climbing up the ladder and climbing back down will reset aggression too.

• Giant spiders can sometimes hit up to a maximum of 7 points of damage.
• No drops other than beginner clue scrolls.
• Unattended players could still possibly die before aggression ends. This happens less often at higher Defence but it's still possible. Hardcore ironmen, pay attention to your character at all times!

• Has a 2x combat experience multiplier.
• Always drops bull bones. which provide 40 Prayer XP (can only be buried directly, no picking up).
• Always drops a raw t-bone steak, which when cooked heals 9 hitpoints and provides a +2 Strength level boost. Players can bring a tinderbox (and logs, which are also on his drop table) to cook them in between kills to prolong trips.
• Has a 1/30 chance of dropping Mooleta, which is the only free-to-play off-hand item with a Melee strength bonus.
• Since this is an instanced boss, there is no competition from other players.

• Fighting Brutus with Melee requires active avoidance of his movement-based mechanics. These scale with your Hitpoints level, dealing about 30-40% of your hitpoints for lower level players.
• His regular hits also deal up to 3 damage, which can add up for lower level players.
• Has a respawn time of 21.6 seconds. This can be decreased to 7.8 seconds by ringing the cowbell amulet.
• His tradeable drops are relatively low in value.

• No food required.
• Feathers are dropped in groups of 5-15 and are stackable, and can be sold for some profit or be used for fly fishing.
• Bones will drop frequently, allowing the player to train their Prayer as well.

• Only 3 HP (12xp) per kill. Once you start hitting 4's with your Strength and weapon, chickens are no longer a good melee training monster but they are still good for training Prayer and collecting feathers.
• Non-aggressive.

• They are fairly weak at level 2, and therefore can be easily slain for 20-24 experience points.
• They can commonly drop water runes, as well as body runes and earth runes for magic training later.
• While uncommon, they drop beginner clue scrolls more often than men, women, and cows.
• If Goblin Diplomacy has yet to be completed, the player could hold onto 3 goblin mails from killing goblins for that quest but goblin mails could also be found inside crates at Goblin Village.

• Lumbridge is a common place for new players to train their combat skills and the area may be crowded.
• While goblins do drop an assortment of items including coins, they only provide little profit.
• They have a tendency to hit 1's on players with little defence and no armour.
• Non-aggressive.

• Very common and weak NPC.
• Often close to banks.
• Decent amount of hitpoints so you don't have to switch targets as often as you do when fighting chickens.

• Non-aggressive.
• Often not grouped close together.
• Morally questionable.

• They always drop cowhide, which can either be sold to the Grand Exchange for profit (112) or be used to train Crafting.
• They always drop raw beef, which can be cooked for Cooking XP and heal for 3 hitpoints.

• It is a common place for new players to train their combat skills or make starting money and the area may be crowded.
• They have a tendency to hit 1's on players with little defence and no armour.
• Non-aggressive.

• They always drop raw rat meat, which can be cooked for Cooking XP and heal for 3 hitpoints.

• No valuable drops.
• Lumbridge Swamp may be crowded.
• They have a tendency to hit 1's on players with little defence and no armour.
• Non-aggressive.

• They commonly drop iron arrows, which can be used for Ranged training.
• They drop noted items such as rune essences for runecrafting and copper ores and tin ores for early smithing XP (or to sell at the Grand Exchange).
• They commonly drop bronze full helms, which can be sold at the Helmet Shop in Barbarian Village.
• They uncommonly drop right skull halves, which can be used to build or recharge skull sceptres (+3 charges or more for each tier of the Varrock Diary completed) or be cut into bone fragments, which can either charge the skull sceptre (i) or be sold on the Grand Exchange for 629 each (1,887 per right skull halves, or 629 more for each tier of the Varrock Diary completed up to 4,403 with all tiers of the Varrock Diary completed).
• They have access to the gem drop table and rarely drop uncut gems.
• They occasionally drop beginner clue scrolls.
• You could optionally continue training on them until melee skills are at 30 if you wish to collect more arrows and other drops.

• Often crowded.
• They have a tendency to hit 2's on players with little defence and no armour.
• Non-aggressive.

• Lots of warriors to fight.
• Aggressive if one warrior is attacked — all nearby others will come and fight. This makes it easy to always be fighting something, which is advantageous at higher levels.
• The bank is very close by.

• Often crowded.
• Being ganged up at lower levels.

• They uncommonly drop runes (including chaos, earth, fire, and rarely law runes) and bronze arrows.
• They have access to the gem drop table and very rarely drop uncut gems.
• There are cooked meat in the mead hall for healing.

• Sometimes crowded.

• High HP (23), low defence, and they deal little damage.
• Always drops big bones which can be sold for guaranteed profit (311) or used for Prayer experience while training.
• They rarely drop beginner clue scrolls.
• Players could continuing until level 40 melee skills.

• Sometimes crowded.
• No valuable drops other than a beginner clue scroll to solve.

• Decently high HP for level (35).
• They have decent profitable drops for lower-level players such as limpwurt roots (226) and they have access to the gem drop table that rarely drop uncut gems.
• Chance of dropping a giant key, which allows the player to fight Obor, who also has good drops and a chance of dropping the valuable hill giant club (1,123,727).
• They sometimes drop law runes, cosmic runes, nature runes, low-level equipment (varies depending on type of Hill Giant), and rarely drop chaos runes and death runes.
• Always drop big bones which can be sold for guaranteed profit (311) or used for Prayer experience while training.
• Faster aggression reset than Stronghold of Security, due to no doors. Just walk until you can't see giants on the minimap and return.

• Highly crowded in most worlds.
• They can be a bit rough and tough against lower levels.

• A decent alternate monster of training your melee combat skills and profiting when hill giants are overcrowded.
• Level 42 hobgoblins have high HP of 49 but they are stronger than their level 28 counterparts and are recommended to be fought at 40+ melee levels.
• They have decent profitable drops for lower-level players as they very commonly drop limpwurt roots (226) and they have access to the gem drop table that rarely drop uncut gems.
• They drop similar runes as hill giants do (except for death runes) but they don't drop them as often as hill giants.

• They can be a bit rough and tough against lower levels, especially the Level 42 hobgoblins.

• Fairly high HP for level.
• Decent alchable drops such as black sq shield (691), mithril sword (507), and steel kiteshield (510).
• Good rune drops such as law runes, nature runes, chaos runes, cosmic runes, and rarely death runes.
• Chance of dropping a mossy key, which allows the player to fight Bryophyta, who also has good alchable drops. Additionally, Bryophyta can rarely drop its essence (4,238,286) which can be crafted into Bryophyta's staff (4,414,455) by bringing the essence and 50,000 to Zaff at his store in Varrock.
• Always drops big bones which can be sold for guaranteed profit (311) or used for Prayer experience while training.
• They have access to the gem drop table and rarely drop uncut gems.

• Varrock Sewers are often crowded.
• Hits hard if you have low Defence or weak armour.
• All of their (F2P) locations are far from a bank

• Stronger alternative to moss giants.
• Decent alchable drops such as black kiteshield (979), mithril mace (351), and mithril sq shield (936)
• Often drops adamant arrows.
• Good rune drops such as law runes, nature runes, and rarely cosmic runes and death runes.
• Always drops big bones which can be sold for guaranteed profit (311) or used for Prayer experience while training.
• They have access to the gem drop table and rarely drop uncut gems.

• These enemies are tougher and stronger than moss giants, thus, they are usually inferior to them for experience.
• Long distance from a bank in either available location.
• Found in areas along side ice warriors, which tend to get in the way due to their high level of aggression.

• Barronite mace deals more damage per second on golems in the ruins than any other weapon.
• The player has a +5 permanent Defence boost if Charm of Defence is active.
• If not using extra barronite guards for barronite shards or to create additional barronite maces, they can be high-level alchemised for 5,119 coins. Charm of Luck will increase the drop rate by 5%.
• Sometimes drop uncut gems up to ruby.
• Drops clay and ores up to iron.
• Drops noted rune essences and body cores for Runecraft training.
• Close to a bank.

• Requires a quest to complete and may take a lot of time put into creating a barronite mace.
• No bones or ashes drop for Prayer experience.

• Fishing spots to fish for food in the Resource Area (required the completion of Dragon Slayer I).
• Good alchable drops such as mithril kiteshield (1,326), rune med helm (11,057), rune full helm (21,120), and rune battleaxe (24,960), and the very rare unique drop shaman mask (4,800) but it could sell at the Grand Exchange for 47,354.
• Often drops a good variety of runes such law runes, nature runes, chaos runes, cosmic runes, and death runes.
• They common drop uncut gems. You could bring a chisel to cut them and high level alchemise emeralds and higher-tier gems rather than banking uncut gems for more experience per trip. Sapphires don't make much profit from high level alchemy, so they can optionally be dropped while saving nature runes for everything else.

• Highly crowded in few areas.
• Without praying or prayer flicking protection prayers, shamans and warriors can hit up to a maximum damage of 8 and quite often if your Defence is underleveled.
• Must wait 10 minutes in an area to de-aggro ogresses in the area.

• Less defence than ogresses as a good alternative for more experience points but profits less.
• High alchable drops include steel full helm (330), mithril sq shield (936), mithril chainbody (1,170), and rune med helm (11,520).
• Commonly drops a good amount of fire runes and occasionally drops chaos runes and death runes.
• They have access to the gem drop table and rarely drop uncut gems.
• Drops vile ashes that give 25 Prayer XP per kill or can be sold on the Grand Exchange for 134 each.

• Drops, while still decent, are not as amazing as ogresses' or greater demons' drops.
• Without praying or prayer flicking Protect from Melee, they can hit up to a maximum damage of 8.

• Less defence than ogresses and an alternative to lesser demons but less Prayer experience and money.
• Level 75 ankou can be found in the north-eastern room without any other monsters to interrupt while the 10-minute aggression timer is on-going.
• Very commonly drops law runes and commonly drops black robes (755), adamant arrows, rune essences, and mithril ores.
• They uncommonly drop left skull halves, which can be used to build or recharge skull sceptres (+5 charges or more for each Varrock Diary tier completed) or be cut into bone fragments, which can either charge the skull sceptre (i) or be sold on the Grand Exchange for 629 each (3,145 per left skull halves, or 629 more for each tier of the Varrock Diary completed up to 5,661 with all tiers of the Varrock Diary completed).
• They have access to the gem drop table and rarely drop uncut gems.
• Edgeville Monastery's altar (requires 31 Prayer to access the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US]) that is outside the stronghold is not too far away and restores over +2 Prayer.

• Drops, while still okay, are not as amazing as ogresses' or greater demons' drops. At times, even the lesser demons' rune med helm rare drops profit more until all tiers of the Varrock Diary are completed in Members to maximise profit from left skull halves' bone fragments.
• Less Prayer XP for their bones than killing ogresses or lesser demons.
• Without praying or prayer flicking Protect from Melee, they can hit up to a maximum damage of 7 (level 75) or 8 (levels 82 or 86).
• Rooms with skeletons in them will get in the way while the aggression timer is still going.

• Your prayer will gradually be restored in the Demonic Ruins. You'll never run out of prayer points with Burst of Strength + Clarity of Thought (or only one of the higher-tier prayers) and Protect from Melee constantly active. With the rune mace giving the player +4 prayer bonus and barronite mace +2 prayer bonus (while being slightly stronger), you may be able to step up to stronger offensive prayers while maintaining prayer but the rune mace is weaker than a rune scimitar.
• Good high alchable drops such as rune full helm (21,120), adamant platelegs (3,840), and mithril kiteshield (1,326).
• Drops vile ashes that give 25 Prayer XP per kill.
• Ignoring drops, this is also an afk training method.

• Common hotspot for player killers. If you wish to bank your expensive drops, don't stay long.
  • If you don't plan on picking up drops, there is nothing much to worry about if you have Protect Item on as you won't lose anything from being PKed unless if the PKer baits you into attacking them first.
  • To continue training on greater demons, if your respawn point is in Lumbridge (Edgeville respawn is recommended), run across River Lum and up towards the farm house, grab a bronze axe, run back south towards the Lumbridge Canoe Station, and travel to the Wilderness (57 Woodcutting required). If you need a new set of monk's robes, they can be found on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] of the Edgeville Monastery.