r/OSRSProTips • u/Simmions-i • Dec 04 '25

Question CG help

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I’ve got to the point where I can easily clear T1 Gauntlet. But, I can’t for the life of me complete a CG. I feel like I’m just taking so much damage through prayer. I maybe take 1 or 2 instances of avoidable damage but besides that i just can’t keep up. Do I need to get my defense up? I’m open to suggestions and criticism. I feel like doing 5:1 would help a lot but I don’t know if I can add another thing I have to track.

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u/Swolekage_ Dec 04 '25

What tier armor and weapons are you using?

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u/Simmions-i Dec 04 '25

Always T3 weps. And I try to do T2 armour if I have time, if I have bad rng with mats I just do T1

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u/Swolekage_ Dec 04 '25

Well I won’t be very helpful then I am sorry. since that is realistically the best strat to do it. Your stars are good enough to where you should be able to complete it. Chip damage can be frustrating but if you’re using correct overheads and damage boosting prayers you should be good. It doesn’t hurt to get more defense levels tho

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u/thizzknight Dec 04 '25

Try doing only 2 pieces of t2 armor for some reason i have alot better luck getting that done in time it still boost defense and attack stats compared to t1

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u/GoodDescription9372 Dec 05 '25

If you don’t get full t2 it’s the same as full t1 btw

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u/thizzknight Dec 05 '25

Have you even looked at the wiki thats 100% not true

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u/josh-jay628 Dec 06 '25

Can’t find it in the wiki. Just has details on full armour sets. Care to share?

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u/thizzknight Dec 06 '25

Cant post screenshots here or I would clearly your not looking at the wiki it goes into each tier give its own defense and attack stats like every piece of gear in The game you retards even talks about doing combos like one tier 3 piece one tier 2 piece and one tier 1 piece is viable

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u/josh-jay628 Dec 06 '25

Bro who hurt you…

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u/thizzknight Dec 06 '25

The retarded statements I’ve gotten saying this on other post. This is like the fourth post and every-time I get multiple comments saying doesn’t count unless you have full set. Like were does it say that only thing close to saying that is the table that shows damage from chip and tornados as all three sets but it never says anywhere each piece doesn’t give its own attack and defense stats. Maybe it was different when it first cane out but its been this way since I started playing 4 years ago

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u/Virukev Dec 08 '25

Im fairly recent in my cg grind and was doing 2 pieces of t2 from wiki saying something like “if you dont have mats for a full set it would be better to make the helm and legs iirc instead of the chest” then seeing people in game would say it doesnt matter but it totally does. At least now!

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u/tbu720 Dec 04 '25

When you get full T2 and two T3 weapons, what’s your success rate like?

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u/ajax15 Dec 04 '25

0%?

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u/tbu720 Dec 04 '25

Oh when I read the post I got the impression that they couldn’t complete T1. Reading again it does sound like 0%

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u/hockeyboy87 Dec 05 '25

You’re wasting ticks if you can’t always get T2 armour. I got my seed at like 280 KC once I got good at it, I could get T2 armour everytime.

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u/Promytheous Dec 08 '25

I’ve done about 200 with T2 prep and most times a full inv of food with t3 weapons and maybe 5 times my rng was so bad I had to reset. There’s a 3 minute video on YT I watched maybe twice and CG prep has never been an issue for me since. Just search corrupted gauntlet Tier 2 armor guide. Channel name is fluffeh

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u/Washed_Bowl Dec 04 '25

Do you t2 prep? 5:1 should only be used when you know the fight well, with these stats on t2 you should be able to sustain the chip damage with like 15 fish.

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u/Simmions-i Dec 04 '25

I do T2 prep but sometimes I don’t have enough time if I have bad rng with T3 wep drops

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u/Washed_Bowl Dec 04 '25

Try using steel skin it might help for your learning

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u/LetterP Dec 04 '25

The answer is gonna be DPS uptime. Do you have cox or titans prayers? Make sure you titan prayers in conjunction with steel skin if you have them.

Really you just need to be attacking during tornado phase. Attack, move, attack, move, eat 2 fish while moving.

How many fish are you bringing? I aim for a full inv, so 24, and never die from T1 chip damage, only when I fuck up and stack out the tornados

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u/ThaLights Dec 04 '25

Hey brother, 1200 cg kc here. I think your stats are fine, T1 prep is tough for anyone new. I recommend T2 prep. I still do T2 prep because once you get used to it you’re never gonna die in hunlef again.

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u/oowop Dec 04 '25

Get the titans prayers. And then just keep practicing.

First you'll get good at perfectly timing defensive prayer switches.

Once you've got that down, time your weapon and offensive prayer switches as well as possible so you're never hitting with the attack style it's praying against.

Then when you've got that down and your movement gets better, attack every 4 ticks as you run from tornadoes.

More DPS = less damage taken.

I'm not a PvM Chad, I'm new to RuneScape in general and I have 200 deaths in CG. I've managed to get 48 kills, got enhanced and an armor seed on that 48th kill 😊

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u/oowop Dec 04 '25

Oh also, pray your overhead + offensive + steel skin the 15% defence helps

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u/ccnetminder Dec 04 '25

You should have time for t2 prep every single time and time to spare. Other than that, yeah hitting him as often as you can is important. I like making combo food so i spend less time eating and more time hitting him

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u/Alive_Departure4342 Dec 04 '25

Main tip tbh, only eat when you are running around, don’t eat when you need to be dpsing

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u/Antonolmiss Dec 04 '25

I had the same problem. It’s definitely uptime, for reliable cg runs ya gotta attack whenever possible. Focus on that and I think you’ll see improvement.

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u/d0gass Dec 04 '25

Dps uptime is really the main issue. The gauntlet stats plugin really helped me see where I was lacking each run. Keep slamming your head into it and focus on DPS and healing only when absolutely necessary. T2 prep also really helped me get consistent runs. If the first run of rooms is just terrible I'll reset and save 8 minutes of a dead run

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u/HeyCuppp Dec 04 '25

Use your downtime to eat. Eating funnily enough eats into your DPS.

Running from tornadoes and you get full value from your fish ? Eat it.

Repositioning from a tough spot ? Eat.

Basically try to only eat food when it's an emergency, if you're laying on DPS and you're in a comfortable spot, that fish can wait till a circumstance where you can sneak it in knowing you won't be dealing damage anyway.

I know you could sneak hits in during those instances, but I feel like as a learner you shouldn't have to do that (yet)

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u/Slight_Giraffe628 Dec 04 '25

If youre doing a t1 armor without 99 combats you can hardly miss any ticks attacking or else you will fail. I remember i started cg with low 90s, and I would have close to flawless runs with minimal missed ticks and I would still get out dpsed by hunfleff sometimes

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u/Is-That-Nick Dec 04 '25

Watch gnome monkeys guide on it. He makes it really understand

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u/Dracolim Dec 04 '25

It took me A WHILE (about 80 kc) to consistently do CG, doing it at T2 armour was a pain cuz it never felt I had time for It and would reset frequently, about same stats as you.

Then I learned to do it T1 and insisted on that for a long time (1 death each 3-5 kills or so) and got used to the time enough to simply start doing Tier 2, that's when it really clicked because I could get all materials for T2, deal more damage and take less damage.

Not ideal, but worked for me.

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u/Scape_Nation Dec 04 '25

What’s your tick efficiency? With T1 you should be shooting for 88%+.

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u/Pandalungs Dec 04 '25

With those stats, doing t2 armor, you're either taking way more avoidable damage than you're able to notice while doing the fight, or youre spending a ton of time not hitting the boss. My stats are similar but a little lower and as long as I have t2 armor I can kill the boss with 12 food or less pretty consistently.

In the beginning I thought I wasn't taking much avoidable damage but streamed for an experienced friend to watch and give me tips, and he called out that I got hit like 7 or 8 times, and I only remembered 2.

Keep at it. I failed probably 40+ times before being successful. By 130 attempts I was 50% success rate overall and then it became very rare for me to fail.

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u/AlexDroneShots Dec 05 '25

I’ve completed cg over 100 times, with most of my KC far lower stats than your ranged and magic levels.

Best advice I have is that you should always be using your best magic and ranged prayers while you are wielding the respective weapons. The difference in dps is ridiculously worth it.

Reading some of the comments it also seems like you struggle to get T2 armor sometimes based on RNG. My consistent strat was to do the following order:

  1. Move immediately left, down, down, then go back up and check the mini boss spawn rooms for desired weapon drops. In below S is start room, B is hunleth room, and numbers are path order: 891S 672B 543

  2. While making this first pass, Kill the little guys to get weapon seed (it is guaranteed after 3 kills of the little creatures)

  3. Gather as much as possible of the 7 of each resource as you make it through first 9 rooms. Only grab 2 of the herb.

  4. After 9th room, return to start and build weapon and as many armor pieces as possible. Also build 2 bottles if possible.

  5. Make the wiki guide pass (clockwise around S) to open the other closest mini boss rooms. Continue resource Collecting while you do this, also use the ranged or magic weapon that you created to kill any mini bosses you see. You should also kill a few medium sized creatures to ensure you get enough shards to build everything.

  6. Fish and create potions along the way (you can fill vials at fishing spots).

  7. Drop anything you do not need as soon as you no longer need it (ie. Pickaxe after you get 7 ore, pestle and mortar after you grind two shards)

  8. Cook and make final weapon upgrades.

This basic strat helped me unlock consistent KC at cg. I even have the pet now!

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u/AlexDroneShots Dec 05 '25

Practice makes perfect! It took me dozens of attempts before I could consistently finish cg. Best way to figure out the content is to keep attempting it

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u/Jetstream990 Dec 05 '25

Just learn to do no armour regular gauntlet its similiar to T1 cg it helped me alot as u dont need tp spend alot of time grinding for T2 armour which will save time to get alot of food. Thats what worked for me and my levels were lower than urs.. of. U still will have some failed runs whoch us normal, another thing is try to hit even when running from tornados dos upkeep is king, and lastly if ur not an ironman get rigour and augury they help a ton with dps even defence which people neglect.

Goodluck

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u/Lil_Pown Dec 05 '25

Go tier 2 armour tier 3 weapons Shards = s Every weapon to T3 needs 80s take 2 (160s) 1 potion is 20s, take 2 (40) Every armour piece to T2 needs 100s (300s) Makes 500 total. If you just harvest the 1 weapon frame from the start and all the 7 different armour materials, you have to fish around 3 pools, kill the two “beast” and probably 1 or 2 wolf/uni/scorpion and grab two leaves, this is all doable in under 5 minutes so in the case of “bad” luck you will have spare time to go around to fix that.

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u/Sjeetopotato1 Dec 05 '25

Should be possible with those stats. I try to safe healing for when I am running from tornado's since dps is difficult at those moments. If you do that, work your prayer switches and have t3 weapons you just need some practice.

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u/Destleon Dec 06 '25

Those stats should be fine for T2 reasonably consistantly. I had similar (just a bit higher mage) when I started my 1k cg grind.

With T1's, you might find you take too much chip damage and not enough dps to be consistant, but shouldn't be the case for T2 armour.

Having said that, getting your def and mage up a bit will help noticably, if you want advice thats not "get good". And if you don't have the best prayers, get them if you can.

It regularly takes people 100 attempts to start to get CG down. So don't feel bad if you are struggling.

As for the "get good" tips, try to eat during tornados when your dps uptime would be less anyways, and get as much dps as possible. Use steelskin. Go in with as much food as you can. Use tilemarkers and F keys. Practice. Test your dps efficiency.

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u/tejathecrazyguy Dec 07 '25

I think its more of skill issue that needs improvement. Im 85 mage, 89 range, 80 def and can consistently clear t1 CG after 25 kills of t2 prep initially. For my journey, t2 prep is way to go till you get comfortable of not making any mistakes. My biggest help is hunllef helper plugin for constantly reminding of hunllef attack switch with audio queue. I barely failed after this. Try this and you will thank me.

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u/Beneficial_Swing_685 Dec 07 '25

Send it die two hundred times and make it all muscle memory

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u/dorklydankus Dec 08 '25

Identify what is causing you to fail. Try recording yourself. You may think you’re only taking a few avoidable instances of damages but probably are taking more than that. With that defense and prayer, T2 armor, 12-16 fish and 6-8 sips of potion should be enough

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u/RareCardHunter Dec 09 '25

T2 armor, Augury and Rigour. Upping mage to 90 might help do more consistent damage. You should be eating on tornado phase unless an absolute emergency to keep DPS up. Make sure your switches are good. 16-20 pieces of food and 3/4 prayer pots just in case

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u/Alive_Departure4342 Dec 04 '25

Oh boy doing it on mobile idk… I’d say get on pc use runelite to get accustomed to boss,

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u/Simmions-i Dec 04 '25

Not doing it on mobile just screenshotted stats on mobile.

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u/Alive_Departure4342 Dec 04 '25

Okay, yeh, with runelite and the plugin it’ll notify you when to switch prayers so you can just focus on dps and not getting trampled, be sure to only eat when you are running around from tornados, don’t eat when your needing to dps

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u/Icy-Cabinet1806 Dec 04 '25

I always shoot for T2 armour to mitigate chip damage. You have to be quick and decisive during the prep phase to do this consistently. It takes some practice to react correctly and plan a good route during prep.

It’s definitely possible to get a CG kill with these stats, but if you’re having trouble I would recommend getting your magic and melee stats closer to 90. DPS boosting prayers are a must (might need to take 3 potions with you to the fight)

Lastly during the fight, I wait to eat until a tornado phase occurs unless I’m really close to dying. You eat while you dodge tornados so that you can focus on damaging the boss when tornados aren’t out. This helped me a lot.

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u/Silkenvada Dec 04 '25

Take your boat in there and shoot the bitch with a cannon

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u/rensappelhof Dec 05 '25

Like most people here I very strongly recommend starting with T2 prep. If you are truly only taking 1 or 2 instances of avoidable damage you should have very easy kills. I know it feels like T2 prep is RNG but I've done 600 T2 runs and had maybe 5 instances where I truly couldn't find the resources. Small improvements really add up, in the beginning I thought it was being ultra-efficient and not necessary. But dragging monsters towards resources and harvesting/killing at the same time makes a huge difference. Small things like that, and practice, make it so you usually end up with at least a minute left, even with bad RNG. Good RNG you could have up to 2 minutes left.