The best things I've found to teach weapons at the 500 range with the same defense requirements of south barricade celepze are the Mid level celepze on kresh. They have a really good spawn rate, better than south barricade ones and have a slightly higher cap for weapons.
As far as black apes and machata's they require alot of reflex and defenses to hunt and black apes require either alot of agility to bypass the god like parry they have for what they are or you need defenses will past what is required for even super celepze because you'll have 3 on you most of the time while you break its parry.