>>47222912You know what? I have an hour or so before the thread hits the ol' 30°, so here's a series of charts for you.
>PvEMienshao is in every regard designed to be the best fighting-type attacker in the game, even stronger than Lucario, how Niantic seems to possess an immense bigotry for those like Black Widow, so kick fighters and general Kung Fu masters are not allowed to have good movesets or moves in the game. Since Mienshao only has access to Low Kick for a fast move, and palm moves/strong kicks don't exist in the game and won't at the very least for this season, it would really have to hope and pray that it's the one other Pokemon to get Aura Sphere now or at some point in the future (which would be fine in the long run, since Lucario's mega towers over any theoretical fighting-types), but it will likely be stuck with the worse than mediocre Brick Break for many months to come.
>PvPIt's somewhat of an odd case for Mienshao right now, but it doesn't look too good. Once again, the biggest issue facing Mienshao is its lack of moves; Poison Jab/Grass Knot/Brick Break is its best moveset. On the left you have its performance with the best defensive stats in ultra league, in a meta that has little use for fighting-types that are designed to be supereffective against fairies. In the middle is its performance in master league classic, which isn't much better for obvious reasons. However, we do know that, at the very least, Poison Jab will be getting a buff that lets it deal more damage. No idea what that could mean, but just to test it out, the right chart bears the same constants as the middle but with a single attack buff (no clue how accurate it is, but there's no other quick way to check). Point is, it's still bad.
tl;dr Without a proper moveset, Mienshao is just like most of the other Pokemon of gen 5-6: left dead in the water to not overshadow the fighting status quo.
