Although the lengthy combos performed so frequently in fighting games have often been derided as unrealistic – most pokemon top out at five-hit attacks, and specially trained Combusken can exceed that number only on stationary dummies – Mienfoo are capable of stringing together kicks and punches like even the best fighting game experts. The problem is that, much like in said games, these combination techniques are not particularly powerful – at times requiring upward of forty hits to knock out a foe.

For this reason, Mienfoo typically abandon these strikes as they grow older in favor more powerful techniques which are impossible to string together; they reduce their efforts to limited combinations such as double slap, or even outright take turns with their foes. Most trainers are pleased with their increased power, which they encourage at the expense of developing their constant attacks. Yet it is said that Mienfoo can to develop their kicks and punches into a perpetual, nigh-unbreakable attack – not by increasing their power, but by reducing the openings for a counterattack until they can defeat all opponents without suffering a single hit.

Only a few martial arts masters have ever claimed to have taught their Mienfoo to master this skill, and none have done so in the past hundred years – yet even without evolution, these few Mienfoo could take down far larger, stronger creatures, provided they first reached close-quarter combat. Unfortunately, this rarely translated to victory, for pokemon battles do not begin at a hand-to-hand range, and Mienfoo were typically defeated by stronger pokemon before they could close the distance between the two. Because of this vulnerability, the technique for the final Mienfoo combo has been lost to history, but wild Mienfoo still try to teach themselves this forgotten art.