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King Black Dragon

Also called

KBD

Release date

24 September 2002 (Update)

Always drops

Dragon bones, 2x Black dragonhide

Combat info

Weakness

Ranged, Stab

Other Bonuses

?

+0

+0%

Immunities

Not immune

The King Black Dragon, commonly referred to as KBD, is a three-headed dragon located in his lair deep in the Wilderness. The King Black Dragon has a combat level of 276, which makes it the fourth strongest dragon in Old School RuneScape. Players should not take this foe lightly, and they should always take an Anti-dragon shield as his dragonfire breath is very deadly without protection. The King Black Dragon can also be killed as a Slayer assignment for black dragons.

Although he will always fight back when attacked, he has gotten bored over the centuries from adventurers attacking him as he revealed to his good friend, Bob the Cat.

While going to the King Black Dragon requires the player to travel in the Wilderness, contrary to popular belief, completion of the Wilderness Diary does not double his bone drops, as the lair he resides is not affected by the Wilderness system.

As of an update on 18 February 2016, players can pay 50,000 coins from their inventory to open an instanced version of the KBD lair, where it will be inaccessible by other players. However, once players leave, the instance will expire and they will have to pay 50,000 coins to open another instance. If players leave any items in the instance, they will disappear. This means that if a player dies or disconnects while inside a KBD instance, their items will not be retrievable.

Its respawn time is 10 seconds.

Reaching the KBD

KBD Routes — The routes that lead up to the KBD Lair.

From Edgeville, players can bring an axe to make a Waka canoe, which requires 57 Woodcutting, at the canoe station and take it to the Wilderness. (WARNING: Watch out for player killers!) Upon arrival, the player will have to trek westward past some green dragons on the southern end of the Lava Maze before going slightly north-west toward the western part of the Lava Maze where some fenced lesser demons are. Enter their cage, and there is a ladder that will take you down to some aggressive poisonous spiders where a lever is pulled to finally arrive at the KBD's lair.

Wilderness Obelisks can also be used to get there. Be wary that using them makes the player more susceptible to encountering high-level monsters or PK'ers. Players who complete the hard Wilderness Diary can choose the obelisk they wish to teleport to. The obelisk closest to the KBD's lair is level 44.

North-west of Ardougne Castle, there's a lever that can be pulled that takes the player to Deserted Keep. From there, the player needs to slash some spider webs to get out, and head southward to a long fence and follow it either east or west to an opening. If following it east, then beware of the Chaos Elemental. Once out, trek westward past the northern end of the Lava Maze before going slightly south-west toward the western part of the Lava Maze where some fenced lesser demons are. Enter their cage, and there's a ladder that will take you down to some aggressive poisonous spiders where a lever is pulled to finally arrive at the KBD's lair.

The Ice Plateau or Ghorrock Teleport is the fastest way to get there. After teleporting, the player should run south-west to the gate opening, and run south-east to some fenced lesser demons on the west side of Lava Maze. Enter the cage, and there's a ladder that takes you down to some aggressive poisonous spiders where a lever is pulled to finally arrive at the KBD's lair.
The Arceuus spellbook's teleportation spell, "Forgotten Cemetary teleport" can be used to get to the KBD lair. It teleports you south of the KBD lair.
The Burning Amulet can be used to get to the KBD lair. It teleports you south of the KBD lair.

The battle

Main article: King Black Dragon/Strategies

KBD Special Breaths — The KBD's special breath attacks.

KBD Melee and Dragonfire — KBD using his Melee and long-ranged dragon fire attacks.

The King Black Dragon can also poison and reduce the player's stats as well as inflict damage, so antipoison (Super antipoison is preferred) and stat-restoring potions, such as Super restores, are highly recommended. He has three unblockable breath attacks: Poison, Shock, and Freeze.

His normal dragonfire has a max hit of 65 with no protection, 15 with the Anti-Dragon Shield or Dragonfire Shield, and completely blocked with both the shield and Antifire potion. Again, his dragonfire is significantly stronger than normal dragonfire, which has a max hit of 65 if unprotected, so players need to be sure they have one of the aforementioned shields equipped at all times.

His poison, shock, and freeze breaths can be reduced to 10 damage using either of the said shields. Although an antifire potion reduces 75% of all damage against these three unique attacks, it will only nullify all damage from the normal dragonfire. Thus, the player will be fully protected from the KBD's regular dragonfire with the proper shielding and an antifire, but his special breaths can still deal up to 10 damage.

As of 13 March 2014, the King Black Dragon now has a chance of dropping the Dragon pickaxe. Protect from Magic won't protect against KBD's hits, but it may lower the chances of him freezing you with his ice attack.

Drops

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Dragon bones	1	Always	2,713
	Black dragonhide	2	Always	5,858

Weapons/Armour

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
Rune longsword	1	Common	18,606
Adamant platebody	1	Common	9,407
Adamant kiteshield	1	Uncommon	2,950
Dragon med helm	1	Rare (1/128)	58,488
Dragon pickaxe	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	5,614,513

Runes/Ammunition

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
Fire rune	300	Common	1,500
Air rune	300	Common	1,500
Blood rune	30	Common	11,010
Iron arrow	690	Common	3,450
Law rune	30	Uncommon	4,980
Runite bolts	10–25	Uncommon	4,030–10,075
Dragon dart tip	5–14	Uncommon	15,445–43,246
Dragon arrowtips	5–14	Uncommon	3,040–8,512
Dragon javelin heads	15	Uncommon	14,310

Other

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
Amulet of power	1	Common	2,126
Yew logs	150 (noted)	Common	37,350
Shark	4	Uncommon	3,684
Gold ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	20,600
Runite limbs	1	Uncommon	9,428
Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,368
Adamantite bar	3	Uncommon	5,712
Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare (1/450)	Not sold
Kbd heads	1	Rare (1/128)	Not sold
Prince black dragon	1	Very rare (1/3,000)	Not sold
Draconic visage	1	Very rare (1/5,000)	4,940,340

Rare drop table

In addition to the drops above, this monster also has access to the rare drop table.


Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
Coins	3,000	Common	Not sold
Loop half of key	1	Common	10,307
Tooth half of key	1	Common	10,840
Chaos talisman	1	Common	505
Uncut sapphire	1	Common	455
Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	679
Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,249
Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	744
Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,800
Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,940
Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	875
Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,220
Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,368
Nature rune	67	Uncommon	14,539
Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,470
Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,135
Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,487
Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,758
Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,459
Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	7,000
Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,932
Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,627
Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,488
Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,015
Rune spear	1	Rare	11,933
Shield left half	1	Rare	65,697
Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,226

Preceded by	Title	Succeeded by
Black Dragon	Strongest monster in RuneScape	Kalphite Queen

Gallery

Trivia

The King Black Dragon can talk, as seen in A Tail of Two Cats. During the final cutscene he is visited by Bob the Jagex Cat. During the chat between the King and Bob, R4ng3rNo0b889 attempts to solo the King, is unable to damage him, and is killed in one hit as he had no dragonfire protection at all.

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 ==Reaching the KBD==
 [[File:KBD_Routes.png|thumb|300px|The routes that lead up to the [[KBD Lair]].]]
-*From [[Edgeville]], players can bring an [[axe]] to make a [[Waka canoe]], which requires 57 [[Woodcutting]], at the canoe station and take it to the [[Wilderness]]. ('''<span style="color:red">WARNING:</span>''' '''Watch out for player killers!''') Once arrived, the player will have to trek westward past some [[green dragon]]s on the southern end of the [[Lava Maze]] before going slightly north-west toward the western part of the Lava Maze where some fenced [[lesser demon]]s are. Enter their cage, and there is a ladder that will take you down to some aggressive [[Poison Spider|poisonous spiders]] where a lever is pulled to finally arrive at the [[King Black Dragon Lair|KBD's lair]].
+*From [[Edgeville]], players can bring an [[axe]] to make a [[Waka canoe]], which requires 57 [[Woodcutting]], at the canoe station and take it to the [[Wilderness]]. ('''<span style="color:red">WARNING:</span>''' '''Watch out for player killers!''') Upon arrival, the player will have to trek westward past some [[green dragon]]s on the southern end of the [[Lava Maze]] before going slightly north-west toward the western part of the Lava Maze where some fenced [[lesser demon]]s are. Enter their cage, and there is a ladder that will take you down to some aggressive [[Poison Spider|poisonous spiders]] where a lever is pulled to finally arrive at the [[King Black Dragon Lair|KBD's lair]].
 *[[Wilderness Obelisk]]s can also be used to get there. Be wary that using them makes the player more susceptible to encountering high-level monsters or [[Player Killers|PK'ers]]. Players who complete the hard [[Wilderness Diary]] can choose the obelisk they wish to teleport to. The obelisk closest to the KBD's lair is level 44.