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	72

Unique

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

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Zenyte shard	1	Rare (1/300)	15,729,000
	Ballista limbs	1	Rare (1/500)	29,170
	Ballista spring	1	Rare (1/500)	29,180
	Light frame	1	Rare (1/750)	29,117
	Heavy frame	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	39,469
	Monkey tail	1	Very rare (1/1,500)	451,437

Equipment and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Common	37,828
	Rune plateskirt	1	Common	37,822
	Rune chainbody	1	Common	29,475
	Runite bolts	100–150	Uncommon	40,300–60,450
	Dragon scimitar	1	Uncommon	59,627

Runes and consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	50–75	Common	8,300–12,450
	Death rune	50–75	Common	10,150–15,225
	Prayer potion(3)	2	Common	14,874
	Saradomin brew(2)	1	Common	2,482
	Shark	2–3	Common	1,842–2,763

Herbs and seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	7–13 (noted)	Common	8,155–15,145
	Grimy cadantine	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,184–17,056
	Grimy lantadyme	7–13 (noted)	Common	9,737–18,083
	Grimy dwarf weed	7–12 (noted)	Uncommon	3,136–5,376
	Watermelon seed	30	Uncommon	2,130
	Ranarr seed	2	Uncommon	90,932
	Snapdragon seed	2	Uncommon	109,102
	Torstol seed	1–2	Uncommon	58,385–116,770
	Papaya tree seed	2	Rare	7,178
	Palm tree seed	1–2	Rare (1/400)	39,781–79,562
	Willow seed	2	Rare	7,240
	Teak seed	2	Rare	170
	Maple seed	2	Rare	56,640
	Mahogany seed	2	Rare	6,058
	Yew seed	2	Rare	136,324
	Magic seed	2	Rare	237,862
	Spirit seed	2	Rare (1/600)	Not sold

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Diamond	4–6 (noted)	Uncommon	7,564–11,346
	Adamantite bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	11,424
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	37,104

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	18,445–32,725
	Dragon javelin heads	5–43	Uncommon	4,770–41,022
	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	10,307
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	10,840
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	505
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	455
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	679
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,249
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	744
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,800
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,940
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	875
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,220
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,368
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	14,539
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,470
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,135
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,487
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,758
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,459
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	7,000
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,932
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,627
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,488
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,015
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,933
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,697
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,226

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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