Evil Chicken

Evil Chicken
Released								1 August 2005 (Update)
Members								No
Combat level								159
Size								1x1
Examine								A fowl beast.
Combat info
XP bonus								-97.5%
Max hit								21
Aggressive								No
Poisonous								No
Attack style								Magic
Attack speed								4 ticks (2.4 seconds)
Respawn time								50 ticks (30 seconds)
Slayer info
Slayer level								None
Slayer XP								3 xp
Category								Birds
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Combat stats
120				1				1				126				200				1
Aggressive stats
+0				+0				+0				+0				+0				+0
Melee defence
+0								+0								+0
Magic defence
+0												No elemental weakness
Ranged defence
+0								+0								+0
Immunities
Poison								0% resistance
Venom								0% resistance
Cannons								Not immune
Thralls								Not immune
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Advanced data
Monster ID								6739
Link								MOID

The Evil Chicken is a magical high-level chicken found in the Champions' Guild chicken coop. While fighting the Evil Chicken, players will suffer drastically reduced experience gain, at a rate of only 2.5% the norm, meaning they may not necessarily gain experience on each consecutive successful hit. The chicken respawns at a fixed rate.

A different version is fought during Recipe for Disaster, unlocking a version who can be fought in the Nightmare Zone after the quest is complete.

The evil chicken was first introduced as a random event that would spawn and attack the player as an anti-botting measure. This was removed in a 2014 update along with the other aggressive random events.

The Evil Chicken is a megalomaniac and filled with a deep-seated hatred for his fellow chickens and especially humans, his former captors. He also appears to be insane, given the many contradicting motivations he claims to have. In one case, he claims that the primary motivation for becoming evil and powerful was his hatred of chicken feed. He instead prefers roasted chicken, which he claims keeps his feathers shiny and clean.^[1] Later, he claims that his motivation for becoming evil was to avenge all the chickens killed by adventurers, despite apparently killing and eating them himself.^[2]

The Evil Chicken's origins are unclear. One theory, presented in the book on chickens, states that the Evil Chicken started out as a chicken of above-average intelligence. He became aware that he and his brethren were prisoners of the humans and then organised the chickens and rebelled against their captors; however, all the chickens were slaughtered with ease. The chicken blamed his kin for the coup's failure and swore revenge on all chickens and humans. A differing account was presented by a chicken in the Postbag from the Hedge, who described the Evil Chicken as tormented and isolated in his pen and desperate to escape. He trained himself using logs as dummies and one day he hopped over the gate to freedom.^[3]

Another theory, also from the Book on chickens, says that he was created in the Second Age by a mage who was attempting to summon a demon and bind it to his will. The mage's spell failed and instead of a demon, he summoned a chicken. The mage grew angry at his failure and banished the chicken to the Abyss. The chicken managed to survive and grew in power. Years later, the same mage attempted to summon another creature, but instead the chicken appeared again. The legend does not say what happened to the mage, but it strongly implied that the Evil Chicken killed him out of revenge. As the Evil Chicken is only 36 years old, this is likely just a legend.

Apparently, he once approached the Champions' Guild's guildmaster in disguise with a bag of chickens offering handsome payment in feathers and cooked chicken to set up a 'champion chicken training arena' in the guild.^[4]

Before the random event update in 2014, Evil Chicken would immediately start attacking players upon arriving using a Magic-based attack which is low-hitting but extremely accurate and rapid. This made him very dangerous for players who are low on Hitpoints or inattentive. Players were forced to either fight and kill the chicken or run away from it. If you managed to kill him, he dropped between 32-750 feathers, raw chicken, and bones.

The Evil Chicken could not be attacked by anyone besides the player to whom he appeared. If the player took too long to kill him, or if they were in range but not attackable (such as if they are in a different room), the Evil Chicken would get bored and leave. The chicken could not move from the spot in which he has appeared, so if a player stepped on top of him, instead of moving to the side as other monsters will, he would shout "Get off of me!," and use a special attack which will push the player aside.

The Evil Chicken's combat stats used to vary depending on the player's combat level.

• The examine text "A Fowl Beast" is a pun, as "fowl" means bird, and is a homophone of "foul" which means evil.
• This could be a possible reference to Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth where Kahlan fought an evil chicken.
• The evil chicken spawns unaggressively to players at the Champions' Guild near Varrock. When a player attacks it, the chicken will attack the player and give the same attack dialogue.
• With a combat level of 159, the Evil Chicken has the highest combat level in free-to-play, tied with the Shade and Zombie in the Stronghold of Security.
• An oversight in drop rate calculations accidentally applied Ring of wealth (i) onto the standard feather drop rate. This caused the rate for 250 feathers to become 1/25000.
• A chicken named Clarence in the 2025 Easter event is strongly implied to be the Evil Chicken in disguise, sharing the same appearance, some evil post-quest dialogue from his companion, and the examine text Very nice, very evil. VERY important..
  • In this event, Clarence is accompanied by The mouth of Clarence a woman in a chicken outfit who speaks to the player on behalf of the chicken. She shows confusion with personal pronouns and frequently makes chicken sounds; tropes often used in narrative fiction to imply someone is being directly controlled or spoken through, implying the evil chicken may have obtained mind control abilities.
  • A 'Chicken' named Clarence was an attendee of RuneFest 2025 with an associated minigame,^[6] he now resides at the Jagex offices.^[7]
    • This humorously implies that attendees of RuneFest may have unwittingly assisted the Evil Chicken with his plans.

v t e Champions' Guild
Inhabitants	Evil Chicken Guildmaster Larxus Leon d'Cour Scavvo Tarquin Valaine
Shops	Scavvo's Rune Store. Valaine's Shop of Champions.
Related	Chronicle Dragon Slayer I Champions' Challenge

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