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)	12,805,228
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,508
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,507
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	29,404
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	30,275
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	465,936

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,837
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,855
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,553
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	49,800–74,700
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,563

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	8,850–13,275
	Death rune	50–75	Common	10,400–15,600
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	15,720
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	1,911
	Shark	2–3	Common	1,512–2,268

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	8,862–16,458
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	11,081–20,579
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	10,192–18,928
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	4,319–7,404
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	2,430
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	103,162
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	137,376
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	53,472–106,944
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	13,378
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	55,954–111,908
	Willow seed	2	Rare	6,952
	Teak seed	2	Rare	160
	Maple seed	2	Rare	77,452
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	7,254
	Yew seed	2	Rare	172,864
	Magic seed	2	Rare	291,818
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,696–11,544
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	11,640
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	37,113

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	17,577–31,185
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,680–40,248
	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	10,085
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	9,427
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	657
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	530
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	711
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,395
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	1,008
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,950
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	3,024
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	870
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,460
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,371
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	16,013
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,965
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,360
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,474
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,693
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,431
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	6,300
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,738
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,950
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	59,032
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,045
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,836
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,497
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,989

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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