Kotoku-in (Civ6)

Kotoku-in is a in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. It must be built adjacent to a Holy Site with a Temple.
* Effects:
** +20% in this city.
** Grants 4 Warrior Monks (if player has founded a religion or if there is a majority religion for this player or city).
== Strategy ==
Kotoku-in is, along with Broadway, Oxford University, and Ruhr Valley, one of four wonders in Civilization VI and its expansions that grant their parent city a 20% bonus to one type of yield along with a secondary bonus. Oxford University and Ruhr Valley are excellent wonders and Broadway somewhat less so, but Kotoku-in is absolutely underwhelming and almost never worth building.
The main bonus of Kotoku-in is 20% extra for the parent city, which is underwhelming if you really break it down. Compared to , and , sources of are a lot rarer. Outside of unique bonuses, cities are likely to be dependent on Holy Sites and their buildings to generate , and not much else. In the Medieval Era, no one except Ethiopia is guaranteed to have a city that can generate 50+ per turn, which is necessary to get 10 extra per turn out of this wonder. Also, considering the escalating cost of a lot of purchases while from Holy Sites and their buildings barely scale outside of certain policy cards, the from this wonder will never be meaningful enough to make up for it.
Kotoku-in's secondary bonus is four free Warrior Monks, which are underpowered by the time you get them. You may be better off using them for non-combat purposes, such as garrisoning cities to get extra from the Retainers policy or maintaining visibility over an area to prevent Barbarians from spawning there.
The bottom line is that most civilizations shouldn't waste 710 on building Kotoku-in without a compelling reason. Its only usable bonus is the extra , so the city to build this must have good generation with scaling potential. Ethiopia has the easiest time satisfying this condition: once they've built Kotoku-in, they can turn its parent city into a trading hub and focus on expanding its borders to claim and improve nearby resources and increase their s' yield. Moreover, their translates to extra and , making it a 3-in-1 bonus. Certain civilizations with the proper pantheons - like Russia with Dance of the Aurora, Mali with Desert Folklore, or Brazil with Sacred Path - can generate a large amount of very early, but since they almost exclusively rely on terrain and well-placed, well-developed Holy Sites, their generation per city won't scale and this wonder's impact will be short-lived.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== Gallery ==
File:Wonder Kotoku-In (Civ6).png|Kotoku-in completed
File:Kotoku-in in-game (Civ6).png|Kotoku-in, as seen in-game
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Category:Civilization VI: Rise and Fall