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	32

Unique

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

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Zenyte shard	1	Rare (1/300)	13,226,814
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,440
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,712
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	28,375
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	31,016
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	469,563

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,943
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,982
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,683
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	34,700–52,050
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,702

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	11,050–16,575
	Death rune	50–75	Common	11,300–16,950
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	14,890
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	1,210
	Shark	2–3	Common	1,628–2,442

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	8,225–15,275
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,443–17,537
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	8,127–15,093
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	4,382–7,512
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	5,280
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	79,156
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	103,080
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	57,267–114,534
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	12,504
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	37,009–74,018
	Willow seed	2	Rare	8,464
	Teak seed	2	Rare	186
	Maple seed	2	Rare	83,338
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	9,960
	Yew seed	2	Rare	187,984
	Magic seed	2	Rare	313,656
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,848–11,772
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	12,570
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	37,215

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	19,406–34,430
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,960–42,656
	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	9,508
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	12,240
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	541
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	702
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	826
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,488
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	851
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,650
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	4,704
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	815
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,000
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,405
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	14,539
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	9,945
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	10,170
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,588
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,948
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,648
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	7,900
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	12,004
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,794
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	59,291
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,212
	Rune spear	1	Rare	12,082
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,684
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	38,429

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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