# Gorilla Mode Base

- Source: https://stierproducts.com/products/gorilla-mode-base
- Category board: https://stierproducts.com/categories/pre-workouts
- Placement: #6 of 17 in Pre-Workouts, A tier
- Brand: Gorilla Mind
- LP on this board: 700
- Last researched: 2026-09-17T06:37:50.931Z
- Method: https://stierproducts.com/methodology
- Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22062813 - every board at once, one dated snapshot per release, same licence, prices and photographs left out
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## Verdict

All of Gorilla Mind's dosing honesty with none of the caffeine liability. Niche, but built to last.

## For

- Mega-dosed pump ingredients (citrulline and glycerol) without the caffeine load
- Same transparency and build quality as Gorilla Mode
- No long-term tolerance problem
- High-dose stim and pump core
- Stripped-down, cheaper tub than the flagship

## Against

- Niche formula serving a narrower job
- Less complete than the brand's flagship formulas

## Evidence

Consolidated from 3 independent outlets

| Outlet | Said by | Stance | Link | Link status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pierson Meier | Pierson Meier | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyueRoyGiWU | fetched and confirmed |
| IsaiahAdventures | IsaiahAdventures | C | https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b-qtd64I1AA | fetched and confirmed |
| Lindsay Falberg | Lindsay Falberg | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMI4d895qys | fetched and confirmed |

## Nearest alternatives on this board

| Rank | Product | Tier | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Transparent Labs BULK Black | S | https://stierproducts.com/products/transparent-labs-bulk-black |
| 2 | Transparent Labs Bulk | S | https://stierproducts.com/products/transparent-labs-bulk |
| 3 | Nutricost Pre-X Pre-Workout | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/nutricost-pre-x-pre-workout |
| 4 | Kaged Pre-Kaged | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/kaged-pre-kaged |
| 5 | Legion Pulse | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/legion-pulse |
| 7 | Gorilla Mind Gorilla Mode | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/gorilla-mind-gorilla-mode |
| 8 | Jacked Factory Nitrosurge | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/jacked-factory-nitrosurge |
| 9 | Naked Energy | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/naked-energy |
| 10 | Kaged Pre-Kaged Sport | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/kaged-pre-kaged-sport |
| 11 | Cellucor C4 Sport | D | https://stierproducts.com/products/cellucor-c4-sport |

The full board is at https://stierproducts.com/categories/pre-workouts.

## What this tier means

- A: Excellent. Strongly recommended, beaten only by the very best.

## How to read this

- Each category is researched in four independent runs, one per lens (expert consensus, value, reliability, community pulse). Every run ranks a board of candidates that deliberately includes products buyers cross-shop but should avoid. Placements score on a ranked ladder (LP), and tiers are derived from LP, so no tier is ever assigned by hand.
- LP is this product's points on its own category ladder. It is comparable within a category and not across categories.
- Link status reports what our pre-publication link check found when it fetched the cited URL. It says nothing about the quality of the review.
- A citation with no usable link is listed rather than dropped, and is excluded from the counted total above.

## Image

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