Monkey Guard

Monkey Guards are level 167 gorillas that reside in Ape Atoll's temple.

Biography
Monkey Guards live on the ground floor and first floor of Ape Atoll's temple. They have a large amount of health and throw vicious punches that can hit up to 15. When they have very low health, they will beat their chest, causing them to heal 25 hitpoints which is about 20% of their hitpoints; they appear to be able to do this indefinitely. Contrary to popular belief they are not immune to magic, but they do have an extremely high magic defence.

There are two kinds of Monkey Guards: ones with, and without a beard. While both Monkey Guards have the same stats, you cannot run through the Monkey Guards with beards, causing them to be a nuisance when they are blocking the ladder to the second floor or the altar.

Benefits
Because the Monkey Guards heal themselves and because there is an altar in the temple, many players train combat of all forms on them by fighting them with Protect from Melee on the whole time. When they are low on Prayer, they pray at the altar and continue their training. Players can also use stat-boosting prayers such as Piety to aid training.

Another Benefit is that the Monkey Guards aren't as fast as a running player. This makes it easier to escape from them while in the temple.

Most players wear a form of Prayer armour and strength boosting armour (depending on how which they prefer). However, prayer isn't needed that badly because of the near by alter. Dharoking is also a popular activity, since the player need not worry about low health when he has prayer activated. It is wise to have multiple super-antipoisons though (for the spider).

When ranging the guards, use range boosting prayers. This will drain your prayer two times as fast when using only Protect from Melee, but being next to an altar to recharge makes this fact irrelevant.


 * Also be aware that monkey guards have an attack span of two squares, allowing them to hit you from afar, much like a halberd but they cannot hit over furniture (e.g: Tables or the altar)

Other information

 * Level 1 Spiders also live in the temple and can poison for up to 4 damage. It is recommended players bring about four antipoisons or 1 Antipoison++ along with them on the island to prevent being poisoned. The spider will eventually be tolerant and not poison you.
 * Monkey Guards drop larger versions of monkey bones, which give 18 prayer experience points when buried. However, these are not tradeable.
 * If you kill a Monkey Guard, you can bring its bones, along with a Monkey Talisman, to Zooknock in the tunnel under ape atoll to create a gorilla greegree. Whether or not your gorilla form has a beard depends on the monkey guard you received the bones from.
 * A combat training method using Monkey Guards that has become increasingly popular is equipping a Dharok's set when health is lowered, and proceeding to use protect from melee to deal extremely high hits with no chance of dying. This method has become popular due to the altar nearby that will recharge Prayer points.
 * The Bearded Monkey Guards can be very annoying during the quest, Monkey madness. For example, after exiting the dungeon in the temple, Bearded Monkey Guards can surround you, stopping you from exiting the temple. At this time, the Monkey Guards will take turns attacking you, so it is suggested that you go back into the dungeon and log out. Then go to a another world (highly populated). If problem persists, ask some other players in the temple to help distract the Monkey guards.
 * Note that if there are many people in the current world you are in, you might as well stay in that world and ask someone to help.