Normal Gauntlet – Casual
Tier 3 bow + Tier 1 staff OR Tier 3 staff + Tier 1 bow
Tier 1 armour
Normal Gauntlet – Speedrun
Tier 3 bow + Tier 1 staff OR Tier 3 staff + Tier 1 bow
Corrupted gauntlet – Casual setup
Two Tier 3 weapons
Tier 1 armour
2 Potions
16 food
Corrupted Gauntlet – Speedrun
Tier 3 bow + Tier 1 staff OR Tier 3 staff + Tier 1 bow
Tier 1 armour
2 potions
2-6 food
Casual Prep guide
Total shards required: 320
● Collect the following supplies whenever you come across them, collecting them while attacking something is faster than doing them both separately:
→ 3x Crystal Ore
→ 3x Phren Bark
→ 3x Linum Tirinium
→ 2x Grym Leaf
→ 16x Paddlefish
1) Kill low level enemies in the first room for 1x Weapon Frame
2) Return to the prep room and make a Tier 1 or Tier 2 Staff (20-80 shards) and 2x Vial if you have another 20 shards. Prioritize getting a tier 2 staff over buying vials.
3) Gather a sufficient amount of fish.
4) Find and kill two tier 3 monsters, it does not matter which ones. Pick up their upgrade and a second weapon frame. In every gauntlet instance there are two dark beast, dragon and bear spawns, They can only spawn in the 12 tiles shown here https://i.imgur.com/CFA9wp5.png
5) Use the Teleport Crystal to return back to the prep room. 6) Cook your paddlefish, make tier 1 armor (120 shards), make your second weapon (80 shards) and grind 20 shards to make 2x Egniol Potion.
Hunllef mechanics
● Hunllef will start with a random protection prayer and switch prayers on the 6th hit that you do. Hitting the hunllef with the style it is praying against does not count towards it.
● Hunllef attacks every 5 ticks. It starts with range and will alternate between mage and range afterwards. In corrupted with t1 armor it will max 13 through prayer and ~60 off prayer. Hunllef changes its attack style every 4 attacks. This does include the 2 special attacks (prayer disabling attack and tornados) but does not include the stomp attack. It will perform a small animation shortly before changing attack styles. You can optionally use an external counter to be better prepared for every attack switch: https://gauntletcounter.herokuapp.com/
● Hunllef has 2 direct special attacks that it will use at random times:
→ Prayer Disabling Attack: This can only be used while the Hunllef is attacking with magic and simply turns off your prayers. For this reason, protect from magic in your quick prayers is recommended.
→ Tornado Attack: The Hunllef summons multiple tornados that chase the player and deal high damage if they reach the players location. The amount of tornados spawned varies on the hp of hunllef. It starts at 2 tornados. At ~600 hp onwards it will spawn 3 tornados, and at ~350 hp onwards it will spawn 4 tornados.
● During the fight, the floor will light up in various places. Tiles are initially highlighted in blue (red in corrupted) as a warning and soon turn orange. If the player stands on an orange tile they will continue to take high damage until they step off of the highlighted tiles. There are 3 different sets of floor patterns that are chosen based on the same hp thresholds as the tornados. The time between the tiles being highlighted until it deals damage is also decreased from 6 ticks at the beginning of the fight to 3 ticks near the end.
Hunllef position
Having hunllef in a good position will help make the fight easier. Make sure the hunllef isn’t next to any of the outside walls. The best position of the hunllef is shown here, but closer to the middle is fine too
Tornado dodging
Being able to consistently dodge the tornados is the hardest part of the bossfight, especially near the end of the kill. The tornados each max a 25 on tier 1 armor, so getting hit by all 4 can easily stack you for your entire hp. The most important part of dodging tornados is that you are always moving for 3 ticks between every hit. This should ensure that you have enough distance between yourself and the tornados when you attack. Here is an example of tornado dodges during the last part of hunllef:
When using a halberd, dodging tornados is a bit different. You have to stay near the middle which can make it harder, but you can also use the melee drag to your advantage. Here’s an example:
It is also possible to woox-walk the tornados, however it can be hard avoiding taking damage from a tornado or two while setting it up, and the prayer disable attack can make it harder. I recommend using this method instead if you have enough space for it.
Redemption method
By using redemption you can make every prayer pot dose count as 24 hitpoints. For casual runs i would only recommend it on runs where food is tight, but for speedruns this method is required. You have to turn on redemption AFTER the hunllef has fired the attack. If your redemption procs, you have to make sure you get the protection prayer back on before the next attack. If you are far away from hunllef you have less time to get the prayer back on, but it is still possible. Here’s an example:
5:1 Method For casual runs, getting two tier 3 weapons is recommended. However, if you are speedrunning or want to get faster average completions you should do the 5:1 method. This method involves doing 5 hits with your main weapon then switching styles to change the prayers on the 6th hit. This way you can enter hunllef with only 1 tier 3 weapon and still do decent dps. This method saves a lot of time in prep, but will make hunllef slightly slower. There’s 3 setups you can take for 5:1:
● T3 Bow + T1 Staff. Hit 5 times with bow, then 1 hit with staff/kick depending on its prayer
● T3 Staff + T1 Bow. Hit 5 times with staff, then 1 hit with bow/kick depending on its prayer
● T3 Halberd + T1 Bow + T1 Staff. You can only do this if you get 3 weapon frames. Hit 5 times with halberd, then bow/staff depending on its prayer.
*If you have any leftover shards, you can upgrade your T1 weapon to T2 or get a T1 halberd instead of kick if you have another weapon frame.
Runelite plugins
There’s a few plugins on runelite that can help. None of them are necessary, but they can help make the bossfight slightly easier.
● “The Gauntlet” plugin from the runelite plugin hub can be used to highlight the tiles of Hunllef and tornadoes. This is especially useful for the tornadoes, as their actual position can be a bit misleading.
● “Tile indicators” plugin can show the current tile you are standing on as well as the tile you are pathing towards, this can be useful for dodging tornados.
Speedrun – How to get a fast prep: 1)
Run into the closest room near your spawn with T1 monsters. Get weapon frame as fast as possible, while 1 ticking any nearby resources. If you don’t get a weapon frame quickly, reset.
2) Make a T1 staff and a vial, if you have 80+ shards make a T2 bow or a T2 staff if Hunllef is praying range
3) Go look for a dark beast/dragon while looking for resources and kill a T2 monster if you need shards. If you don’t find a dark beast or dragon within the first 3 rooms, reset.
4) Kill the demiboss and pick up its items. If you don’t have a T2 weapon by this point, use veng against it.
5) Find remaining resources needed and teleport back to spawn
6) Make tier 1 armor, cook food and make pots.
Videos
2:39 Regular Gauntlet speedrun example (WR)
4:36 Corrupted gauntlet speedrun example (WR)
