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	33

Unique

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

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Zenyte shard	1	Rare (1/300)	13,933,580
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,362
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,529
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	28,930
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	30,813
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	493,843

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,770
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,853
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,475
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	51,900–77,850
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,583

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	7,850–11,775
	Death rune	50–75	Common	10,700–16,050
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	15,904
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	2,823
	Shark	2–3	Common	2,218–3,327

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,968–18,512
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	10,612–19,708
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	12,089–22,451
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	3,913–6,708
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	2,310
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	106,638
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	128,934
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	59,104–118,208
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	7,640
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	46,018–92,036
	Willow seed	2	Rare	5,940
	Teak seed	2	Rare	140
	Maple seed	2	Rare	62,318
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	8,056
	Yew seed	2	Rare	149,688
	Magic seed	2	Rare	282,682
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,580–11,370
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	11,490
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	37,245

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	18,011–31,955
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,710–40,506
	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	9,970
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	10,280
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	562
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	464
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	735
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,335
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	721
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,950
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,688
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	865
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,320
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,415
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	17,018
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,065
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,630
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,507
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,848
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,482
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	4,700
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,801
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,918
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,997
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,089
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,926
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,436
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,476

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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