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	37

Unique

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

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Zenyte shard	1	Rare (1/300)	13,488,581
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,511
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,132
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	29,454
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	33,211
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	501,217

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,809
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,895
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,526
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	59,800–89,700
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,424

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	8,350–12,525
	Death rune	50–75	Common	9,850–14,775
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	14,980
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	2,239
	Shark	2–3	Common	2,294–3,441

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,289–17,251
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	11,858–22,022
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	11,865–22,035
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	3,493–5,988
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	1,320
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	81,962
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	123,712
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	54,133–108,266
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	9,212
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	50,985–101,970
	Willow seed	2	Rare	6,352
	Teak seed	2	Rare	132
	Maple seed	2	Rare	74,194
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	8,970
	Yew seed	2	Rare	165,316
	Magic seed	2	Rare	282,690
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,392–11,088
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	11,616
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	36,966

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	17,422–30,910
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,775–41,065
	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	10,149
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	9,590
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	639
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	459
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	686
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,306
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	690
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,950
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,856
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	885
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,620
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,322
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	16,482
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,515
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	8,865
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,478
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,788
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,494
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	5,200
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,620
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,912
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,995
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,042
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,884
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,339
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,442

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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