Created: Aug 23 2024

OSRS Scorpia Guide: Strategy & Gear Setups

OSRS Scorpia Guide: Strategy & Gear Setups

Scorpia is a huge scorpion located underneath the Scorpion Pit. Fighting this boss is somewhat challenging as she can poison players for more than 20 damage and also hit up to 16 damage with her melee attacks. However, it can be rewarding as she is the only monster who drops the odium shard 3 and malediction ward, which can be used to forge the odium ward and malediction ward. Killing Scorpia is also one of the quickest ways to get a boss pet as she can be killed fairly often and the Scorpia’s offspring can be gotten at a rate of 1/2,016.


How to get Scorpia

As previously mentioned, Scorpia can be found in the Scorpion pit, northeast of the Wilderness, as shown below. The Scorpion pit is a valley in the northern part of the Wilderness that stretches between levels 53 to 55. Players will find several level 14 scorpions on the surface of this pit. This location is a hotspot for PKers, the chaos elemental also wanders here, and it can deal a lot of damage, so players should be careful.

Scorpia's location

Here are the fastest ways to get to this location

  • Obelisk POH: players can use the Obelisk in their POH to teleport to level 50 wilderness and run west to Scorpia’s location.
  • Deserted Keep: this is the most popular method to get to Scorpia’s lair. Players can pull the Edgeville lever to get to the deserted keep and then make their way to Scorpia’s location as shown above.


  • 78+ magic: to use the Trident of the Seas. For shorter kills: 94+ magic and completion of Desert Treasure to use Ice Barrage, 82+ magic is recommended for ICe Blitz, or 79+ for Entangle.
  • 40+ prayer: for protect from missiles. 45 prayer is recommended to use mystic might.


It's wise to bring just 3 or 4 valuable items when heading into the wilderness, as there's always the risk of encountering a PKer. The gear listed below is solid, but if you have better equipment and are willing to take the risk, you should consider using it.

gear setup for scorpia

Head slot: Mystic hat

Neck slot: Occult necklace

Cape slot: Imbued God cape

Body slot: Zamorak monk top.

Leg slot: Zamorak monk bottom. 

Shield slot: Book of Darkness or the Holy Book.

Weapon slot: Trident of the swamp, Players should use better weapons like the Harmonised Nightmare staff, Thammaron’s sceptre, and Sanguinesti staff if they can afford it.

Glove slot: Tortured bracelet: players should only bring this if they take the risk and can quickly turn on protect item if they get attacked by PKers

Boot slot: Ghostly boot

Ring slot: Explorer’s ring


Inventory Setup for Fighting Scorpia

inventory setup for scorpia

This consists of:

  • 2 protection against poison (antidote++ or superantipoison)
  • At least six blighted super-restore 
  • Good food
  • 4 saradomin brews
  • 1 or 2 stamina potions
  • Knife if getting here through the Edgeville lever
  • 300 Blighted ancient ice sack: If you are ice barraging
  • Lockpick: To escape into the magic axe hut
  • Black d’hide body and chaps for tanking PKers
  • Looting bag: to allow for longer trips


How to fight Scorpia

Before entering the wilderness, make sure to set the player attack option to hidden to avoid getting skull-tricked. Also, double-check that you have the right items to keep upon death. Upon entry into the Scorpia’s lair, players will find several of her offspring. These are tiny scorpions that attack very accurately with ranged, which can deal a maximum of 2 damage and inflict poison for above 6 damage.


When Scorpia reaches 99 health or lower, she will summon two guardians which will heal her continuously when within a few tiles from her until they are killed or despawn. They can each heel Scorpia for 8 health every 1.8 seconds which is shown with a curse projectile animation, They only despawn if they do not heal Scorpia in 15 seconds, If they are killed, they will not respawn. Players can easily kill them or freeze them with ice burst/barrage or snare them and then lure Scorpia far from them to cause them to despawn.


Strategy for Fighting Scorpia

A good strategy is to attack the Scorpia with an ice barrage, ice burst, ice blitz, or entangle to freeze her, this will work quite well due to her low magic defence. This will help you stay out of her melee range while attacking her with magic. Players should also use protection from missiles to prevent damage from Scorpia’s offspring. Optionally, players without a toxic weapon can also poison Scorpia with a few casts of Smoke blitz/barrage at the start of the fight to get a bit extra damage and reduce the time for each kill.

Scorpia's guardian

When she spawns the Guardians, players should wait till she is unfrozen, then freeze the Guardians and lure Scorpia far away from them, this would make them despawn. A good strategy to lure her far away from her guardians is to stand where you will be luring her just before she gets to half hp, then freeze the guardians immediately after they spawn. If done correctly, Scorpia should unfreeze very soon after you freeze both guardians. This requires good practice and careful timing.


It is a good idea to learn the fight with a friend to make it more relaxing and make your learning process smoother.


How to Escape PKers when Fighting Scorpia

Here are some escape routes in case you run into Pkers when fighting Scorpia

How to escape Scorpia

Magic Axe Hut

The Magic Axe hut can be found in the location above, it is a good spot to escape PKers, players would need a lockpick and at least 23 thieving to enter this area.


Resource Area

If you get attacked by Pkers when fighting Scorpia, you should run into the resource area which is west of the Desert Keep, players will need to bring coins to gain access to this area, but it is free if you have completed the wilderness elite diary. Hopefully, the PKer does not have coins and can’t enter this area.


Combat Achievements for Fighting Scorpia

Four combat achievements tasks can be completed when fighting Scorpia, these include:


  • Guardians No More: Kill Scorpia without killing her guardians. (Restriction, Hard, 3 points, 24.2% completion)
  • Scorpia Adept: Kill Scorpia 10 times. (Kill Count, Hard, 3 points, 18.7% completion)
  • I Can’t Reach That: Kill Scorpia without taking any damage from her. (Perfection, Hard, 3 points, 18.8% completion)
  • Scorpia Veteran: Kill Scorpia 25 times. (Kill Count, Elite, 4 points, 15.2% completion).


Drops from Scorpia

The average Scorpia kill is worth 32,969 GP based on the prices of these items shown below in the grand exchange.


  • Pre-roll: Odium shard 3Odium shard 3 (1/256), Malediction shard 3Malediction shard 3 (1/256)
  • WeaponsWeapons and armourarmour: 8 noted battlestaff (1/21.33), rune 2h sword (1/25.6), rune pickaxe (1/25.6), rune kiteshield (1/25.6), rune chainbody (1/32), rune scimitar (1/32), rune warhammer (1/32), mystic earth staff (1/32), mystic robe top (1/128), mystic robe bottom (1/128), dragon scimitar (1/128), dragon 2h sword (1/128).
  • RunesRunes: 100-150 death runes (1/16), 100-150 blood runes (1/16), 150-200 chaos runes (1/16)
  • HerbsHerbs: these are obtained in noted form; 10-15 Grimy kwuarm, 10-15 Grimy kwuarm, 10-15 grimy torstol (1/25.6), 4-7 grimy snapdragon (1/25.6).
  • MaterialsMaterials and other rewards: 15-20 uncut rubies (1/21.33), 10-15 uncut diamonds (1/32), 3 noted runite ores (1/32), 30-50 dragon javelin heads (1/32), 6-10 onyx bolt tips (1/64), 25,002-34,962 coins (1/18.29), 15-25 noted blighted anglerfish (1/25.6), 5 noted blighted super restores(4) (1/25.6), 2 wilderness crabs teleports (1/64).
  • Tertiary: looting bag1 looting bag (1/3), 66c8b98a7dfc08.61939479.webp1 ensouled scorpion head (1/18), brimstone key1 brimstone key (1/75), clue scroll1 clue scroll (hard) (1/100; 1/50), Scorpia's offspring1 Scorpia's offspring (1/2,016).
  • Wilderness Slayer tertiary: Slayer’s enchantmentSlayer’s enchantment (1/30) and Larran’s keyLarran’s key (1/72).






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