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Melmetal @ Leftovers / Aguav Berry
Ability: Iron Fist
EVs: 64 HP / 252 Def / 192 SpD
Impish Nature
- Double Iron Bash
- Body Press
- Acid Armor
- Protect

Among all Melmetal's sets, the Acid Armor one capitalizes on Melmetal's titanic bulk the most and allows it to shut down notable physical threats like opposing Melmetal and Tyranitar! Acid Armor also strengthens Body Press, which severely hurts popular metagame presences like Incineroar and opposing Melmetal, offering nice coverage alongside Double Iron Bash and enabling this set to pose a notable offensive threat. The EV spread allows Melmetal to withstand a +2 Excadrill's High Horsepower and Choice Specs Dragapult's Shadow Ball after Fake Tears. Trick Room support from the likes of Gothitelle and Necrozma lets Melmetal benefit from its awful Speed tier. Powerful offensive threats like Dragapult and Terrakion can compensate Acid Armor Melmetal's relative lack of initial power. Answers to sun teams, such as Tyranitar and Zeraora, are very appreciated by Melmetal too.
 
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  • AA Melmetal poses more of an offensive threat because of Body Press than Double Iron Bash, so I wouldn't bother talking about its Attack stat. Double Iron Bash is just a good move, and it happens to hit some things that you don't want to Body Press like Togekiss and Dragapult.
    • Since this is less important, I'd move this sentence after the one about Body Press.
  • Instead of mentioning Excadrill with Melmetal and Ttar as things it can sit on, I'd go with Dragon Dance Dragapult. Swords Dance Exca can pose a little bit of an issue.
  • Maybe put Lapras instead of opposing Melmetal when you're talking about Body Press targets, and I think you meant to say "offering nice coverage alongside Double Iron Bash", not Melmetal.
  • In addition to offensive mons, I'd point out that it benefits from some sort of answer to Sun teams like Zeraora or Tyranitar.
Mostly minor things here, so I'll give the QC 1/1; go ahead and send to GP after you've implemented
 
Melmetal @ Leftovers / Aguav Berry
Ability: Iron Fist
EVs: 240 HP / 152 Def / 116 SpD
Impish Nature
- Double Iron Bash
- Body Press
- Acid Armor
- Protect

Among all Melmetal's sets, the Acid Armor one capitalizes on Melmetal's titanic bulk the most and allows it to shut down a lot of physical threats like the opposing Melmetal, Dragon Dance Dragapult, and Tyranitar! Acid Armor also strengthens Body Press, (AC) which severely hurts popular metagame presences like Incineroar and the opposing Melmetal, offering a nice coverage alongside Double Iron Bash and enabling this set to pose a notable offensive threat. The EV spread allows Melmetal to withstand a +2 Dynamaxed Melmetal's Max Quake. Trick Room support from the likes of Gothitelle and Necrozma lets Melmetal benefit from its awful Speed tier. Powerful offensive threats like Dragapult and Terrakion can compensate Acid Armor Melmetal's relative lack of initial power. Answers to sun teams, such as Tyranitar and Zeraora, are very appreciated by Melmetal too.
GP 1/1
 
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Needs edits to account for the new meta w/o DMax, probably need to mention a different physical attacker now since DD Dragapult should be more or less dead, and needs a different spread since the current one accounts for Max Quake.
 
Memoric are you good with this spread?

144 HP / 160 Def / 204 SpD
Relaxed Nature

+2 252 Atk Excadrill High Horsepower vs. 144 HP / 160+ Def Melmetal: 378-446 (84.5 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

EDIT: We discussed over Discord, and we're going with 64 HP / 252 Def / 192 SpD; Impish Nature. It hits the above benchmark with the most Defense possible for a stronger Body Press, and the dump in SpD is enough to take Choice Specs Dragapult's Shadow Ball after getting hit with Fake Tears.
 
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