Ice troll runts are the lowest levels of Ice trolls found on Jatizso and Neitiznot. Despite possessing only a slightly higher combat level than Mountain trolls, they can hit much harder (up to 17) and are much more aggressive, often attempting to engage the player from several squares away. They also have the ability to hit through armour, similar to Verac the Defiled. Yak-hide armourdoes not reduce the troll's maximum hit. It is advised to use the Protect from Melee prayer whenever engaging more than one at a time. Ice troll runts are often found near Ice troll females; when they're not, they will be spread farther out.
Ice troll runts are found on the northern isle with the rest of the ice trolls, and in the cave systems (the eastern cave before completion of The Fremennik Isles, and the western cave after). They're also found south of the bridge to the troll isle just north-west of Neitiznot. In this location, they tend to engage in combat with the Honour guards just east of the bridge. While they prefer to attack the guards, they will attack a player if the player is their first target, until they grow tolerant of the player.
The player can receive aid from guards slaying ice troll runts on a troll task while killing them quickly with a dwarf multicannon. However, if a guard deals the finishing blow or attacks a runt as it dies in the same tick as the player, the Slayer experience gained will be halved but items will still be dropped.
The ice troll runt drop table is somewhat unusual in that it varies depending on the exact version of monster being killed, while having identical appearances in-game. There are two different drop tables, with the drop table used determined by the troll's spawn point. Variant 1 is a table unique to ice trolls, while variant 2 is the low-level troll table used by mountain trolls.
Ice troll runts are commonly killed for their chance to drop the granite shield and rune kiteshield. This makes it important to differentiate between variant 1, who can drop the shields, and variant 2, who does not. A third variant, the frenzied ice troll runt, do not drop any loot and should not be killed as well.
Variant 1 which drops the shields has 100% weakness to fire and will attack players up to 5 tiles away, its NPC ID is 5828.
Variant 2 has 50% weakness to fire and will only attack players standing directly next to them, its NPC ID is 1874.
^ 3.03.1The talisman dropped depends on where the monster is located: monsters above ground level drop the nature talisman, and monsters below ground level drop the chaos talisman.
^ 4.04.14.2Only dropped if Legends' Quest has been finished; if not, a talisman is dropped instead.
Combat stats
Magic defence
Ranged defence
Fremennik✓
43+ recommended
