Overview

Fire Koish has a potentially very threatening offensive presence. The Synergy Adept trait boosts Koish’s primary techniques and potentially those of its allies as well. With synergy, it can offer devestating damage, which encourages Fire Koish to be placed with allies that make potent Synergy Adept combos. Without synergy, it can still do very respectable damage but it lacks priority while having a somewhat middling base speed stat. Its secondary Water typing can ease its matchup into the Earth and Fire Tems that will otherwise wall Fire Tems.

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Synergy Adept is not nearly as powerful as Synergy Master was, but this Koish variant still has Lava Wave, a powerful synergy attack that is well-suited to Koish's high physical attack. Mastione's change to a water tem overlaps very strongly with what Fire Koish brings, though Fkoish has some extra speed and Hypnosis going for it, but is lacking a strong physical water technique.

Lava Wave and Ice Cubes are your best bet for physical attacks, the latter of which really needs Synergy Adept to do notable damage. Lava Wave is also very powerful is SA is added to it. Water Cannon can also have its damage synergy-boosted, and deal some toxic ticks as well with the help of a toxic partner. Compared to other waters, Koish is the only non-mental water to get access to Hypnosis, so running it at high speed to help disable threats like electrics and toxics can be useful.

Other tems with strong synergies that require fire or water typings are great pairings for Fkoish. Babawa, Mastione, Turoc and Mimit are all good examples.