Demonic gorilla

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Demonic gorillas are powerful creatures found in the Crash Site Cavern. Two of them are fought during Monkey Madness II, in the penultimate stage of the fight. After the quest is completed, more demonic gorillas can be found in the caverns alongside their tortured brethren. They are primarily killed for their zenyte shard and ballista component drops.

Demonic gorillas use all three combat styles to attack. They will change combat styles after missing three hits in that attack style. They are also capable of using protection prayers, and will switch to protect from the player's attack style after taking 50 damage from it. Therefore, you must bring at least two different combat styles to kill them. As they have very high magical defences, they are most often killed with melee and range.

The gorillas also have a special attack where they send a rock crashing down at the player's position, which can be easily avoided by moving out of the way. If you are hit by this attack, it will deal 1/3 of the player's current HP (meaning that it alone cannot kill you) allowing it to hit over 30 damage on players with high HP.

Most of the gorillas reside in a multi-way combat area, making it very dangerous if the player is attacked by more than one at a time. However, there is a single-way area where more demonic gorillas can be fought safely. However, if they continually use their rock fall attack at the player, it is possible for nearby demonic gorillas to attack the player if they are not tolerant yet.

Demonic gorillas count as monkeys and black demons during a Slayer assignment. As they are demons, they are susceptible to the effects of Silverlight, Darklight and Arclight. Demonic gorillas cannot be damaged with a Dwarf multicannon.

You can check the kill count by reading the gravestone next to Lumo at the opening in the fence.

Note: The prayers of the demonic gorilla cannot be bypassed through the use of Verac's set or special attacks.

Drops

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Ashes	1	Always	49

Unique

Below lists the effective drop rates of any specific item.^[1]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Zenyte shard	1	Rare (1/300)	15,190,312
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,344
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,479
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	29,161
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	47,452
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	452,916

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,888
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,806
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,515
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	42,000–63,000
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,567

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	10,200–15,300
	Death rune	50–75	Common	12,150–18,225
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	20,318
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	2,558
	Shark	2–3	Common	2,438–3,657

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,184–17,056
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	10,311–19,149
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,681–17,979
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	3,584–6,144
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	2,700
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	142,108
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	171,564
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	56,851–113,702
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	5,216
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	38,457–76,914
	Willow seed	2	Rare	5,690
	Teak seed	2	Rare	118
	Maple seed	2	Rare	66,384
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	7,084
	Yew seed	2	Rare	147,912
	Magic seed	2	Rare	228,060
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,460–11,190
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	12,048
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	37,566

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	5,162–9,991	Common	Not sold
	Javelin shaft	266–1,238	Common	266–1,238
	Rune javelin heads	31–55	Uncommon	16,802–29,810
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,470–38,442
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	Rare (1/100)	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare (1/500)	Not sold

Rare drop table

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

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	3,000	Common	Not sold
	Loop half of key	1	Common	9,855
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	9,529
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	572
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	445
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	676
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,312
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	1,233
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,950
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	3,024
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	615
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	900
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,522
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	19,162
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	9,180
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	10,935
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,467
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,760
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,532
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	6,800
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	12,022
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,733
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,828
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,095
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,966
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,573
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,805

Trivia

• Demonic gorillas are similar to the tormented demons of RuneScape 3; both use all three forms of combat, protection prayers and drop items that are used to create more powerful equipment.
• Demonic gorillas' prayers were slightly changed several days after release due to several glitches happening with specific weapons, notably the Saradomin godsword.

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