Yo, what's up guys
Got pokeaim here with the Pokemon sword and shield moveset video guide on how to use melmetal
I am so excited about this pokemon and I was really waiting for Pokemon home
That way we could talk about this mon and then I can use it in pokemon sword and shield
So let's just look at Melmetals stats real quick before we even get into my favorite set for it, which will be choice band
But it has base
135 HP insane base
143 attack insane base 104 you know where this is going base
143 defense as well as a pretty respectable base 80 special attack, which I don't think will be used much on most melmetal
however in a draft League
I think you can make use of that especially when it has moves like ice beam discharge and steel beam to abuse
base 65 special defense really sucks, but
because of Melmetals massive HP stat
You can really maximize that's... you can actually take special hits more than you actually thought like there
There's a way to EV Melmetal for instance. That's not 2 hit KOd by specs dragapult for instance, but
Shadow Ball, of course
Not not flamethrower fire blast and base 34 speed which isn't terrible
Considering Melmetal can have a home on trick room now its abilities iron fist
Which actually boosts its
Signature move, which is double iron bash so double iron bash
If you guys didn't know is a 60 base power move that hits twice and has a 30% chance to flinch. So that's effectively a
51% chance to flinch your opponent if i'm doing the math right
Because each one has a- it's a double hit move
So each one has a chance to flinch as well and it's boosted by iron fist as well
So just to let you guys know that's that sixty base power move becomes
144 base power with iron fist and becomes
216 base power after stab I believe it is the strongest
Physical- from especially Melmetal, I believe it's the strongest physical steel type attack that we have I could be wrong on that
But iron fist is also nice on melmetal because Melmetal has access to thunder punch, which is very relevant considering
It's a steel type and one of the Pokemon that can easily resist most hits from steel types that we see right now is Corviknight
So that's really nice for it. Now choice band set makes use of Melmetals
Insane attacks that now I think you can really play around with your EV spread on this
I think you always want max attack just because the damage output is
Absolutely insane like the output is just crazy even on resistances. They're taking so much from moves like double iron bash
It's actually crazy but double iron bash is your main move
Of course after that you want thunderpunch now thunderpunch is necessary because of coriknight but it also gives you a strong hit versus Gyarados
Which resists your double iron bash, but I mean that doesn't matter man
I'm telling you right now
Double Iron bash 2 hit KOs, or at least does half- Its a 2 hit KO as in you have to click it twice
But it 2 hit KOs  most Pokemon that resist it. It's that crazy
Thunder punch low lets you do what corvikight is a 2 hit KO on physically defensive toxipex
Knocks not bulky waters or can deal with bulky waters in general
Earthquake is your third move allowing you to hit Pokemon like aegislash also allowing
You still to hit toxipex, but excadrill too - and just steel types in general which will resist your double iron bash
but again
Most of them do not have it but I think earthquake is also important because it allows you to hit opposing melmetal
For some super effective damage for a 2 hit KO and then your last move is kind of a toss-up
it
Depends on you
super power is a good option as it gives you a super effective hit versus ferrothorn that is just so strong coming off of
that base 143 attack or facade, facade is a cool option too because if you get burnt or
Paralyzed
Facade is boosted and actually ignores the burn attack drop
So facade becomes very strong can be a nice neutral move to lock yourself into last move is, maybe darkest lariat
Which is kind of
Situational but it gives you a movie versus aegislash if it's on a balloon and also super effective. I'm sorry
I'm like,  I sound so like nerdy saying I'm really excited about this Pokemon
But I'm so excited about this Pokemon like pokemon home just came out nowhere like it literally released five minutes ago
Like I was like, whoa
I didn't expected to release today so
darkest lariat gives you a nice safe versus bronzong gives you a
KO on aegislash as well and dark is just a good neutral move in
General now the EV spread that we have right here in front of you is max attack just to maximize your damage output
112 speed EVs allow you to outspeed hippodown  so a min speed hippodown and this is cool because
double iron bash is a solid 2 hit KO on physically defensive hippodown and of course you have that chance to flinch hippodown as well
This also naturally allows you to outspeed  Pokemon like toxipex to and then the rest was put into HP
But I'm gonna be real guys
You can customize your melmetal all you want. I don't even think you need max attack personally
I'm sure they're gonna be EV spreads that can come out that can do just about anything, right?
I'm sure at least it probably needs minimal attack investment to actually  do damage as well
But you can customize it to eat hits from dragapult and whatnot as well
But another thing you can do to this set too is you can run max speed if you run max speed adamant max attack
max speed allows you a lot speed min speed clefable, which is something you
destroy with double iron bash man
You absolutely destroy it with double iron bash. And if you're using it on trick room for instance, you do not have to use
adamant, but you can use brave nature as you guys will see on your screen and
It's basically just max HP max attack
Four defense you'd run brave nature so you can be as slow as possible in zero speed as well
Really cool thing because it's a cool trick room mon that beats like anti offensive Pokemon, too
So some anti offensive Pokemon that come to mind are mimikyu because mimikyu is a Pokemon that can stop a sweep due to
Its disguise melmetal bust the disguise its first iron bash second one sends
Mimikyu flying so this is something you probably want to pair with trick room Pokemon
Mimikyu is actually a pretty cool trick room Pokemon you can pair with it another good mon
I think is hatterene. That not only appreciates melmetal killing everything but also can bounce back hazards for melmetal
So this is more just max attack max HP
However, if you are running melmetal in the OU tier for instance, I would run enough speed for toxipex
I think always you don't want to get burnt by scald from a toxipex, but
yeah, we have the
man, I'm just oh
It's only
108 per hit with stab in and iron fist, yeah 216, yeah
I already know that so next up
we have the assault vest melmetal and this aims to
kind of patch up melmetals special defense not because it has such a high base HP stat I believe it's actually better to
Invest in its special defense itself, but we have enough speed for toxipex something
I mentioned earlier and even some speedier variants of toxipex as well as reuinclus
Allowing us to thunderpunch to do a massive damage
the assault vest can let us take hits from potentially a fire move from dragapult or a
Shadow Ball
from aegislash maybe even a hydro pump or
something from Rotom wash
And the move set is still double iron bash thunderpunch and earthquake
I think those are always gonna be a given on these more
Offensive variants of melmetal and this is just an attempt to use it as a better fairy checker, for example
Like something like a cleffable or even sylveon can still mystical fire
Which would sometimes 2 hit KO some variants of melmetal the assault vest allows you to
Really just get over that
weakness and
Just double iron bash to knock them out without having really fear the fire type attack coming out
And again that speed is for the toxipex
But again, you can customize this as well if need be. Last move either superpower or facade
I think facade fits really well on an assault vest set considering you can use this as a status absorber if
anything
To take like a willow wisp or even a thunder wave coming out cuz melmetal doesn't really care too much about its speed in fact
Thunder wave is better than it being burnt just because it's already naturally slow
so as long as you
Manage to break through paralysis and get your attack off that can work for melmetal and I like with the assault vest set
I would personally- I haven't used this Pokemon yet cuz it's not allowed in the ladder
The only version of this thing I've used is a choice band melmetal really and also no item melmetal in Pokemon
let's go Pikachu and Eevee when I did Wi-Fi battles as well as ladders on Pokemon showdown, but
choice bands my favorite set but with an assault vest set
I'd definitely run something with wish I think a fairy type with wish is really good
Clefable can run wish or even healing wish to heal up melmetal
Sylveon is also one that could do that clefable though can run aromatherapy with Pokemon home
I believe sylveon would now have access to heal Bell so that can be really good
So both of them can be really nice answers
And again if your team is weak to fairy types, throw in a melmetal man and just start clicking double iron bash
I'm serious guys just do it. I hope
For those that want to use melmetal have access to it. If not, you can go on Pokemon showdown
Like I said, I will be going on later today in a Pokemon
showdown live you guys can check out me using melmetal as long as it's allowed and
Yeah, I'll be clicking double iron bash. The next set we have uses Melmetals access to thunder wave to kind of patch up that
Speed teir. so the idea is you Thunder wave pokémon like corviknight, you Thunder Wave clefable, you Thunder Wave  toxipex you Thunder wave
Bulky Waters or anything and then this allows Melmetal to outspeed them and threaten them with double iron bash Thunder punch or earthquake respectively
Obviously you want- I think again
I think those three moves are always a given right. The earthquake allows you to hit opposing melmetal as well as steel types like
Excadrill and earthquake for super effective damage and KOs on excadrill as well
Melmetal is so naturally bulky that it will just live earthquakes from excadrill Anyway even life orb excadrill
So it's so crazy
But the speed is there for toxipex as mentioned before
And thunder wave allows you just to pass that color
If you Thunder Wave corviknight  for instance. Out speed Corviknight allowing you to 2 hit KO it with Thunder punch
That way I can't like roost stall you if it tries to
Though a corviknigh that's trying to roost stall you has to be really careful because you can always earthquake as they roost since they lose
their flying type allowing melmetal to
Do some massive damage
It just kind of sucks and I'm not gonna be able to show too much footage when it comes to melmetal
Maybe like I'll use some stuff from let's go for instance because you get Thunder punch a Gyarados or earthquake
Maybe I'll use some of that footage but I just because I'm not currently able to use it on my Pokemon sword and shield game
Because I can't like I don't think you can use it online
I'm not sure what melmetal was even considered Serebii was saying something like between gen 7 and Gen 8 so, that's weird
but yeah leftovers for longevity as well and
You can run substitute with this Thunder Wave set too if you don't want to run maybe- maybe you'd get rid of earthquake for instance
and
substitute plus para
So you basically try and para or flinch them with thunder wave plus double iron bash
Because you hadn't you already had that para on them
And now you have that chance to flinch them with the double iron bash. So increasing your chances so substitute is also an option
Potentially over earthquake I think because I think I do think you need Thunder punch
specifically because corviknight is just always gonna wall you and not only that you have limited double iron bashes versus that Pokemon if it's running
pressure as it will be stalling you in taking turn per turn now the last set that we have right here and again,
These EV spreads are kind of straightforward
I tell you what they do and you can customize your melmetal based on your damage calcs or what you want it to take
But I want to use the ability- I want to use body press right remember
melmetal has acsess to body press and if you guys didn't know body press uses your defense instead of attack in damage calculations
Which is pretty cool considering it has base 143 defense as well
so
one thing I liked about this Pokemon is that its faster naturally than Pokemon like Ferrothorn so you can use a
Substitute acid armor set and use acid armor over iron defense, by the way
Just because acid armor has more PP. So substitute acid armor. What acid armor does is it boosts your defense times 2 - and
and this is steadily increasing your body press and
melmetal can
Basically after substitute and a body press it can easily sub on opposing
Corviknight with body press it can sub up on Ferrothorn hell
It can even sum up on excadrill after enough
boosts if it wants to and then you have that body press which is just boosting in damaged turn per turn as you boost your
Defense and of course, you need your double iron bash that way you can deal with them fairy types
I opted for an HP and special defense invested one
That way you can take you know weaker flame throwers from clefable or mystical fire some sylveon a little bit better
even like shadowballs from
specs dragapult for instance you could take
Two from it without dying
I
believe I calced that right so
That's what I did
But I mean, I guess you could technically run an impish one and even raise your defense even more that way body
press just gets that much stronger because you are using acid armor because you have substitute and you're gonna have
Multiple opportunities to use acid armor with melmetal I figured that'd be best
Yeah, that's what I have for you guys with Melmetal. Like I said in a draft League, where you
Tailor your Pokemon to what your opponent has
I'm sure you might see ice beam on it ice punch is another physical move that it has and I don't think it currently needs
Just because Garchomp, landourus, and gliscor aren't in the game, but when they are obviously you can run ice punch on that too
But for the most part with melmetal man use choice band and click that double iron bash and just like enjoy
Seriously, enjoy the damage that this pokemon does like it's just so strong, but I hope you guys all enjoyed
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