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	35

Unique

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

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Zenyte shard	1	Rare (1/300)	11,563,514
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,593
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,606
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	29,431
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	33,865
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	471,545

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,899
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,861
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,525
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	42,500–63,750
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,570

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	7,900–11,850
	Death rune	50–75	Common	10,400–15,600
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	14,692
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	1,737
	Shark	2–3	Common	1,612–2,418

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	8,687–16,133
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	11,578–21,502
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	10,360–19,240
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	3,521–6,036
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	2,880
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	98,258
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	118,724
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	52,521–105,042
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	3,852
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	38,566–77,132
	Willow seed	2	Rare	7,416
	Teak seed	2	Rare	174
	Maple seed	2	Rare	63,580
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	5,940
	Yew seed	2	Rare	137,608
	Magic seed	2	Rare	243,152
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,472–11,208
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	11,916
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	37,305

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	18,817–33,385
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,800–41,280
	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	9,826
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	9,727
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	417
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	545
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	734
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,387
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	701
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,800
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,562
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	835
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,160
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,435
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	14,070
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,110
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,360
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,581
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,834
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,503
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	5,800
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,558
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,858
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	59,060
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,094
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,952
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,229
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,567

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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