As a former Serenguard, part of me being ready for combat was figuring
out the best poison+wound affliction combinations to use. Many of these
combinations are still applicable to the Shofangi. If you can find them,
Morphite and Charybdon are both very good poisons to work into a choke
battle.

Morphite causes the target, when hit, to go to sleep. If the target has
insomnia up, morphite will eliminate that. The problem with most
fighters using morphite is that your target may have a reflex up to
automatically re-activate it. But monk forms throw all three actions at
the same time, so your enemy is being hit by two morphites at once. This
will prone them and force them to sleep before they can re-activate
insomnia. In normal, non-choke combat, this is not as useful as it
sounds, because an enemy with Kafe will get right back up and
re-activate insomnia. What this does in choke is that the enemy's reflex
of re-activating insomnia will be removed in favor of waking. If they
have kafe defense, this will be as immediate as their balance permits.
However, as they are waking up, they are not insomniac. And in choke,
this can be fatal. A hit with Calcise will keep them proned until they
cure that. Morphite with a pair of shofa can knock an enemy back into a
curing battle quickly.

Charybdon is yet another advanced poison. It's effect is completely
random, but very often cannot be automatically reflexed. In most cases
(except for the death affliction crotamine and sleep affliction), your
target will have to DIAGNOSE themself or do something that the
affliction they were given prevents. Charybdon can quickly sneak a
number of afflictions behind an enemy's reflexes.

These are just a couple more ideas. Using only one poison once will not
be very effective, try mixing and matching them. As always, experiment
with a friend (in the arena, hopefully) and find out what poisons work
best together.

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Roarkian, in the year 181 CE.