Venenatis
Weak to fire +40%
Best in slot
The best setup using every item in the game, at 99s with potions and the best prayer.
Melee
Best here
Ursine chainmace · Holy blessing
Ranged
Webweaver bow · Holy blessing
Magic
Tumeken's shadow · Holy blessing
Other options by slot
The best melee pick for each slot and the next best options. Each percentage is the DPS you lose by swapping in just that item against Venenatis.
Mechanics
Venenatis uses 8 ranged attacks, then 8 magic, and moves every 4 attacks.
Her web covers a 7x5 area and hits for 3 fast while draining prayer and run energy. Her spiderlings drain prayer every hit, and if left alive they boost her damage and let her hit through prayer. She's in deep multicombat Wilderness, so don't bring anything you can't lose.
Which style: Melee with crush, slightly ahead of ranged.
From the OSRS Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Inventory
About 15 minutes of kills per trip with the best-in-slot melee setup: 14 at 1m 6s each. Our suggestion: the OSRS Wiki has no melee inventory for Venenatis. It is fought above level 30 Wilderness, where no teleport works, so the bag has no way home: get back to level 30 before you teleport.
Elder maul
Two special attacks can take its Defence from 321 to 136
Super combat potion(4)
Boosts Attack, Strength and Defence by 19
Stamina potion(4)
Run energy, for getting away from other players
Saradomin brew(4)×5
Heals past your maximum, but lowers your attack stats
Super restore(4)×3
Restores prayer and the stats the brews lower
Anglerfish×17
Heals up to 22, and can take you past your maximumThe wiki's own setups
Equipment and inventory as the OSRS Wiki's strategy page lists them, slot for slot. These are what people actually take; the solved kits above are what the maths prefers.
Ranged
Example ranged setup
Melee
Example melee setup
Required: Medium Wilderness Diary (bypassed while on a Venenatis slayer task)
What it drops
54 drops, with rates from the OSRS Wiki. Open this boss in the planner for what a kill is worth at today's prices.
What it defends with
Combat tasks
2 tasks worth 7 points. Open the planner to track the ones you have done.
Hard
1 task
3 points each
Elite
1 task
4 points each