Main page/Bestiary/Bossing index/Cerberus

Difficulty: Medium

Level

318

Hitpoints

600

Aggressive

Yes

Poisonous

No

Weakness

Melee

Max Hits

39

Always Drops

Ashes

General information

Cerberus is a level 318 hellhound boss, which is currently the only boss with a slayer level requirement of 91. Cerberus may look tough, but it isn't a difficult boss to defeat. Once you have learnt the basic mechanics of Cerberus, you should be able to kill it very easily. Cerberus is popularly killed for it's primordial, eternal and pegasian crystal, these are then attached to the dragon, wizard and ranger boots, providing best in slot boots for each combat style. These are Primordial boots, Eternal boots and Pegasian boots.

Location

To get to Cerberus' lair, click the "Cerberus" boss teleport in the Bossing teleport menu at the Purple Wizard and click on "crawl cave".

You will end up here:

Step forward north and you will see Cerberus

Inventory & Prayer

Inventory

Prayer

1 Ranging Potions
3 Prayer Potions
Spec Weapon (If you want) - This can be replaced with another piece of food
Food (a few Karambwans can also be used to tick eat the ghost phase)

Mechanics

A mixture of ranged and magic attacks will be used by her. It is adviced to stick with Protect from Ranged, as the magic attacks are less frequent.
She spits three balls of fire, this will be seen on the ground. It is best to avoid these areas as standing on them will deal damage every few ticks.
She summons three souls that come from the river behind her and attack the player with each combat style. First one dealing magic damage, followed by range and finally with a melee attack. For this part, you may want to prayer flick to avoid these attacks. If not, you can just protect from Mage and keep hp to full. Overall, it is advised to bring a range setup to inflict maximium damage to this boss. Furthermore, you should protect from ranged when against Cerberus and prayer flick when against the three souls.
After a kill, you should teleport home and use the box of health
As the lair is instanced, Cerberus WILL NOT respawn
If using range, you should unlock and use Rigour to deal extra damange.

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Gear setup

	Max Setup	Mid Setup	Low Setup	Very Low Setup
Head	Void ranger helm	Serpentine helm	Karil's coif	Ranger hat
Torso	Elite void top	Armadyl chestplate	Karil's leathertop	Ancient d'hide body
Legs	Elite void robe	Armadyl chainskirt	Karil's leatherskirt	Ancient chaps
Gloves	Void knight gloves	Barrows gloves	3rd age vambraces	Ancient bracers
Boots	Pegasian boots	Pegasian boots	Ranger boots	Snakeskin boots
Amulet	Necklace of anguish	Amulet of eternal glory	Amulet of fury	Amulet of madness
Ring	Archers ring (i)	Brimstone ring	Ring of suffering (i)	Ring of recoil
Cape	Assembler max cape	Ava's assembler	Ava's accumulator	Ranging cape
Offhand	N/A	Twisted buckler	Dragonfire ward	Odium ward
Weapon	Twisted bow	Armadyl crossbow	Toxic blowpipe	Dragon crossbow
Spec Weapon	N/A	Armadyl crossbow	Toxic blowpipe	Dragon crossbow
Ammunition slot	Dragon arrows	Ruby Dragon Bolts (e)	Rada's blessing 4	Runite bolts