Mienshao

Mienshao holds a small niche on sand teams with its Choice Scarf set due to its high Speed and good coverage, letting it revenge kill setup sweepers like Dragonite, Volcarona, and Salamence as well as slower Choice Scarf users like Garchomp and Tyranitar. This makes it quite good against hyper offense teams that rely a lot on these setup threats to get past sand teams and outspeed everything. It can also pivot around with U-turn to keep up momentum, which is especially good against bulkier teams that can take its hits it while recovering health as it does so with Regenerator, which mitigates the effects of residual damage from entry hazards and sand a bit. However, Mienshao struggles in the metagame due to its abysmal bulk that makes it hard to take even the weakest neutral attacks, being unable to break through common metagame staples like Skarmory, Reuniclus, and Tentacruel, and strong competition from other Choice Scarf users like Latios, Keldeo, and Garchomp as a result of their better defensive profile and ability to check similar threats. It also can't do much of anything against common rain teams due to their tendency to use multiple Pokemon with Protect, like Tentacruel, Politoed, and Jirachi, while the same is true for sand teams to a lesser degree with Pokemon like Jirachi and Gliscor. Other Fighting-types in Keldeo, Breloom, and Terrakion also outclass it a lot of the time due to being stronger, having more set versatility, and fitting on more team styles than it.