The higher your Attack level, the more accuracy you have when fighting another player or monster. Attack does not increase the damage inflicted, however. This is the default attack style for combat, and is a good starting point for training. To combat a strong attacker, a higher Defence is required. If fighting an enemy with a high Defence level, the chances of hitting are reduced. For every point of damage inflicted, four attack experience is gained. With roughly every three Attack levels gained, your combat level will go up one combat level.

Strength allows your character to hit higher damage. A high Strength level will increase your "max hit", meaning each blow struck has a chance of doing more damage than at lower levels. Your max hit is determined solely by the combined total of your Strength level and weapon's Strength bonus. The choice of weapons and enhancers can dramatically raise a maximum hit, and this should be taken into consideration when fighting. For every point inflicted, four Strength experience points is gained. With roughly every three Strength levels gained, your combat level will rise one level.

Defence is required to prevent your character from being wounded or dying. A high Defence level will lower the frequency of being hit. It also protects against Ranged attacks and partially against Magic attacks. Armour is normally used to further enhance your Defence, and the choice of armour is sometimes more important than the Defence level itself. For every point inflicted, four Defence experience is gained. With roughly every four Defence levels gained, your combat level will rise one level.

Ranged is a skill that is useful for killing monsters, duelling, player killing, and getting good drops. Generally, you can last much longer at higher-levelled monsters when ranging than fighting with melee, since "safe spots" will block monsters' attacks and thus, you do not need food or much less is overall needed.

Prayer is a skill that summons the powers of RuneScape's Gods to help you in combat. To train this skill, you must pay tribute to the gods by burying bones. The more bones you bury, the higher your Prayer level will become, allowing you to access more powerful prayers. A high Prayer level can be very useful in battles, especially in free-to-play, where players cannot access restorative potions. If you want to try to take on a high-level monster for better drops, Protect from Melee can save your life. Prayer is invaluable in any quest or areas where there are high-level monsters that need to be slain. Roughly eight Prayer levels will increase Combat by one level.

Magic plays an extremely important role in RuneScape; it has evolved to be one of the most dominant classes of combat. Similar to Ranged, which requires the use of arrows or bolts to aid the damage dealt, Magic uses runes to cast different types of spells. Magic is one of the only skills that allows you to utilize combat aspects, as well as profitability aspects. For instance, while the Fire Wave spell can inflict large amounts of damage to your enemy, the High Alchemy spell converts your items into gold pieces. Magic can be divided into modern magic, ancient magic, and lunar magic; each of these has their own subset of spell types. Magic spells allow you to attack other players and monsters, but also it allows you to teleport to many places or perform other useful actions.

Each level in Constitution gives a player 10 life points. Life points are a character's health, and this lowers when damage is inflicted. The more life points available, the longer your character can survive in battle. When all life points have been lost, you will die and possibly lose some items. Food, a few potions, spells, and Summoning scrolls and familiars can be used to raise life points back to the original level. For every 10 damage points inflicted, 1.33 Constitution experience is gained. Defence will lower the chance of losing life points. With every four Constitution levels gained, your combat level will rise one level.

Before you can start with the skill Summoning, you need to finish the quest Wolf Whistle. The first major step is to take the essence of a familiar, and infuse it into pouches. This part of the skill gives players the most experience; in other words, it is the hardest part of the skill. The second step is summoning the familiars. Each one unique in many different ways, with its own special abilities, whether it be aiding players in combat, assisting players with various skills, or holding onto certain items. The third and final step is using the Summoning scrolls, made out of pouches that have not been used to summon a familiar. These scrolls are essential if you want to make use of a monster's unique abilities.

The Accurate Style of combat allows you to hit your opponent more often, though there is a down side to this. You do not hit for as much damage as you would in the Aggressive Style, nor do you get any Defence bonus like you would in the Defensive Style of combat. While fighting in this style you get Attack experience.

The Aggressive Style allows you to hit as hard as you can, but more often. However, your accuracy will suffer. You also do not gain the Defence bonus you would get if you were fighting in the Defensive Style. When fighting in this style you gain Strength experience.

The Defensive Style of combat allows you to protect yourself from your opponent's swings as you hit them with your own. This is a grand advantage, but you do not get an increase to your Attack or Strength while fighting in this style. While fighting in this combat style you gain Defence experience.

The Controlled Style of combat does not give any noticeable increases to any of the aspects of combat, but you gain experience in all of them at once. When fighting in the Controlled Style of combat you receive experience in Attack, Strength, Defence, and Constitution all at once. If you are thinking it is too good to be true, you are definitely right. The experience you obtain is split up equally between the four skills.

Generally, the higher the attack bonus you have of a particular style, the more accurate you will be in combat. A high Stab attack bonus will mean you will hit more often with weapons such as Swords, Daggers, and Scimitars as long as you are set to a Stabbing style of attack. It is recommended to use Stab attacks against those in Chainbodies, Magic robes, or Dragonhide armour.

Slash is very similar to Stab in that many of the weapons that can Stab, can also Slash. Good weapons to use for Slashing include Godswords, Swords, 2-handed swords, Battleaxes, and possibly Daggers. Slash is recommended against Ranged armour, Magic armour, and most Platebodies.

The Crush style is very different from Stab and Slash; Crush relies on brute force rather than a sharp edge. Good Crushing weapons include Warhammers, Battleaxes, Maces, 2-handed swords, and Godswords. Crush is recommended against Magic robes and Platebody armour.

The Magic style deals with the accuracy of the spells you cast. It does NOT affect the accuracy of any weapon (including Staffs) using Melee. High Magic boosting equipment may include Magic robes, jewelry, and staffs. Magic is highly recommended against Melee armour, but be careful as your defence bonuses will most likely be very low. Magic is discouraged against Ranged armour.

The Ranged style, like Magic, does not affect Melee accuracy in any way; rather, it affects your accuracy with various shortbows, longbows, and other ranging equipment. Equipment giving Ranged attack bonuses include Dragonhide, Leather armour, and bows. Ranged is recommended against Magic robes, Ranged armour, and most Melee armour (Platebody, Chainbody).

Like Attack bonuses, Defence bonuses affect how often you are hit with a certain style. The higher your bonus, the less likely you are to be hit by that particular style. Armour giving high Stab bonuses include Platebodies and Dragonhide. Chainbodies are discouraged as they give significantly less Stab defence bonuses than Platebodies.

Slash is a commonly used Attack style, so high Slash defence bonuses are usually important in training Combat and when in PvP (Player vs. Player). Platebodies are strongly recommended for high Slash bonuses. Again, Chainbodies are discouraged as they offer less Slash bonus than Platebodies.

Although Crush is one of the less used Attack styles, a high Crush defence is still very important in Combat training. Chainbodies and Dragonhide are recommended for high Crush defence bonuses. Platebodies offer less Crush bonus that Chainbodies, but they usually have better overall stats.

The Magic defence bonus affects the accuracy of Magic spells. Magic robes give a decent amount of Magic defence, but it is recommended that you use Dragonhide (unless you are using a Magic attack, of course) for a high defence against Magic as Dragonhide also gives Melee and Ranged defences. Stay away from Melee armour for Magic defence as most Platebodies and Chainbodies have negative Magic defences.

Ranged defence lowers the accuracy of all Ranged attacks. If you are up against a player or NPC that uses a Ranged attack, it is recommended that you use Platebodies, Chainbodies, or Dragonhide. Magic robes usually offer little to no Ranged defence bonuses, making Mages very vulnerable to Ranged attacks.

The Summoning defence bonus is different from the other bonuses. Summoning defences affect the damage dealt to you by other players' familiars, no matter what style the familiars use. It is not recommended that you base your set-up off of Summoning defence, and most armours give a nice amount of Summoning defence anyway.

• Cows are great for training at this level, as they don’t hit hard or often.
• You can also use bones dropped when the Cow dies to train on your prayer level.
• Collecting their cowhides is also a great source of money for those who are inexperienced in combat. Another good place to kill them is in the field south of the Champions' Guild/north of the Lumbridge mill. Here there is an NPC called Beefy Bill, who will bank your cowhides for a 10% commission.

• These always drops bones, raw chicken, and usually feathers.
• Using their bones can help your prayer, and the feathers you can sell for 4gp each.
• They almost never hit, so no food is needed. They have low attack and defence, as well.

• At low levels these can be risky. Be careful.
• As these are close to Lumbridge bank you can train a few levels here easily.

• These warriors come in a continuous stream.

• These can be found in the north west corner of Karamja Volcano, at the start of the corridor leading to the door to Crandor. Take some strong armour and some decent food (Trout should do).

• With a low attack and strength level, they are easy to kill and make good training for free players, with a chance of some good drops for everyone. If you are a member charms are not uncommon, and neither are herbs.
• There are three levels of Flesh Crawler: 28, 35, and 41. They can accommodate for training for most mid-ranged level players.

• Moss Giants drop big bones every time, which should be buried to gain prayer levels.
• They are good to fight when you are wielding Adamant armour or better.
• As both the F2P spots are quite far from a bank, take runes to high alch some of the better drops, so you can stay at the training spot for longer.

• The Giant Spiders are some of the best combat training in the free version of RuneScape.
• Although these monsters do not offer any drops at all, the experience rate makes up for it.
• Medium-level stats and food, armour, are recommended for fighting these monsters.

• These are a good source of fire runes, and also drop various Steel items quite frequently. The rune med helm is their top drop.
• There are several spots where you can use Ranged or Magic to safely attack these beasts. If you plan to stay for a long period of time, consider taking high alchemy runes to convert your metal items into gold.

• These monsters are high in quantity and are rarely visited, making for some good training without interruption.
• They can hit hard and often, so be careful with your health. They have reasonable drops as well so a profit can be made!

• Rock Crabs have high life points and low stats, making them great for training on.
• They occasionally drop Clue Scrolls and charms.
• They hit very rarely. Depending on you Defence and Constitution level, it is likely that you will not need any food.

• There are plenty of these to be killed at Khazard or the Gnome Stronghold

• Experiments are great for training because, like Rock Crabs, they have extremely low attack and defence stats and high life points.
• To access the dungeon, you must have started the Creature of Fenkenstrain quest.
• It is a good idea to bring some food since they do hit, although not often.

• These are good for collecting herbs.
• As these are in the Wilderness, be wary of Revenants.

• Good training target if you aren't a fan of clicking on every separate target. They queue up and with retaliation they keep coming.
• Be careful with your health, if you don't watch it you may find yourself in Lumbridge.

• These are quite good to kill for clues and they are also a very good source for coins, and since there is a very high quantity of these monsters, you will have no shortage or waiting time for them to re-spawn.
• They are also very close to a high quantity of Gnomes which can be good for training as well.

• Ghostly warriors are relatively low-levelled, aggressive, and have good drops, making them a great training location.
• You must have completed the Spirit of Summer quest to have access to the Spirit Portals.
• The Spirit Realm is not located in the Wilderness, so while you are training there is no way of a Revenant to attack you.
• Revenants CAN attack you, however, when you first go to the portal. They can also attack you if you wish to make the warriors aggressive again, which requires you to enter the Wilderness and run a distance away.

• These will appear as a Loar shadow when not involved in combat.
• The best place to kill these is the ruined temple on World 77 (the official Shades of Mort'ton world).
• Take a bit of food and some good armour, combat increasing potions will also help to maximise xp gain.
• If you have a Salve amulet/Salve amulet (e) it would be a good idea to wear it because the shades are undead.
• The only thing the shades drop are shade remains, which can be used to gain keys in the Mort'ton Funeral Pyres minigame.

• Wear a Saradomin or Zamorak item to make the bandits aggressive the whole time you are there.
• It is recommended that if you train in the bar, use Protect from Melee prayer or Guthan's as there are a large number of bandits in the building.
• If you train in one of the other tents in the camp, it is recommended that you bring food, Guthan’s, prayer, or healing familiars as you can still take heavy damage.
• Bandits are very popular for training, so it may take a while to find an empty world for you to use.

• These require the completion of the Horror from the Deep quest to access.
• They are popular as they rarely hit and gather in large numbers, making them perfect for killing in quick succession.
• They do have a melee attack and a range attack, so watch out for the ranged Dagannoths, as they may hit you harder then you may expect.
• If you lose aggression, run to the other side of the cave and the other pack of Dagannoths will attack you. They are reached by going down the ladder in the Lighthouse, north-west of Camelot.

• To access Damis' Lair, you need to have the Ring of Visibility which is obtained through Desert Treasure quest.
• There are two Giant Skeletons per spawn, but the area is single-combat, so as soon as you kill one, the other one comes on you.
• It is recommended to have the skeletons aggressive to maintain maximum experience rates.
• You will have to leave the area and return or switch spots in order to keep them aggressive.
• The skeletons hit quite hard, so prayer, Guthan’s, healing familiars, or food (Sharks) are recommended.

• Use the prayer altar nearby to make training here efficient.
• Dharok’s set is useful here as the melee prayer will keep you from taking damage, so you can go to low health and hit high.
• Be careful of the poison spiders (they will lose their aggression after a while) and avoid getting trapped by the ladder. Some monkies cannot be ran through.
• Access them by either using an Ape Atoll teleport or heading there with a Gree Gree. They are in the Monkey Temple.

• To gain access to these monsters you must have started the quest Defender of Varrock.
• The best place to kill the zombies is in the corridor you enter as soon as you climb down through the trapdoor, meaning you are very close to the altar in the Chaos Temple.
• If you use the prayers Chivalry or Piety you can greatly increase your xp per hour.

• These are best to attack while they are attacking creatures that follow other gods, they are found in a decent number just east of the rope you climb down.
• Be sure to wear armour that has high melee defence as they may attack you if their current target dies.
• Bring runes for high alchs as they drop a lot of rune items. Please note that these require a Slayer level of 68 to kill.

• The best place to kill these is north east of the door to the Bandos Stronghold, items to protect you from the followers are recommended but not needed as only the orks will be able to attack you.
• The area is multi-combat, so many orks can attack you at once. This means full Guthan's is the best armour to use as it will heal life points, thus increasing the time spent there.
• Attacking an ork will cause all others in the area to attack you, even if you have a Bandos item equipped.

• Upon entering the Zamorak fortress, you will be drained of all remaining prayer so be sure to have prayer potions and prayer boosting armour with you.
• There are three spiritual mages just north of the bridge and many more towards K'ril Tsutsaroth's room. Be sure to use the protect from magic prayer as otherwise you will take heavy damage. Spiritual mages drop dragon boots.
• The drop rates of Zamorak spiritual mages are often considered better than that of other gods' spiritual mages.

• These require a slayer level of 85 to kill and will also teleport themselves and you to the adjacent squares around both them and you.
• They are often crowded due to popularity so you may need to change worlds several times for ideal spots in the slayer tower or use the alternate abyss.
• Bring armour with high melee defence, high alchemy runes and a familiar that has some way of healing life points (optional). They drop Abyssal whips and a lot of rune (metal) and runes making them a very effective monster to kill for both xp and money.

• Blood Runs Deep: 150,000-450,000 XP (3 choices of 150,000 XP) in any combat skill, excluding Summoning
• Meeting History: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over lvl 25.
• Fairy Tale Part II, A: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over level 30.
• Great Brain Robbery, The: 5,000 XP for any skill you choose over level 30.
• Legends' Quest: 7,650-30,600 XP (7,650 is given to 4 skills from a list of skills)
• One Small Favour: 10,000-20,000 XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30)
• Recipe for Disaster: 20,000 XP (A Lamp to grant 20,000xp in a skill of your choice over level 50)
• Darkness Of Hallowvale: 6,000 XP in any skill of your choice (Tome of Experience, 3x 2000 exp)
• Legacy of Seergaze: 7,500 XP in any skill of your choice (Tome of Experience, 3x 2500 exp)
• Troll Stronghold: 10,000-20,000XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30)
• Tail of Two Cats, A: 2,500-5,000 XP (2 x 2,500 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30)
• While Guthix Sleeps: 100,000-400,000 XP (4 x 100,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 65)
• Temple At Senntisten, The: 23,000 XP in a skill of your choice over level 50.