Question

Mine knows:

Stone Edge: High power, STAB, good chance for a critical hit.
X-Scissor: Good power, high accuracy, STAB.
Rock Polish: Increases Armaldo's Speed stat.
Swords Dance: Increases Armaldo's Attack stat.

Armaldo Learnset

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Armaldo (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Stone Edge
- Swords Dance
- X-Scissor
- Earthquake

Answer 1

Stone Edge - high critical hits
X-scissor - as you said
Earthquake - the best ground move, cover steel weakness
Rock Polish - good move for Armaldo low speed
that's my moveset...

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Exactly what I would have put.....

Answer 2

V gen:

Let's make it a nice tank:

Hone Claws - raises ACC and ATT
Stone Edge - STAB, strong, more accurate with Hone Claws
X-Scissor - STAB, strong
Earthquake - strong, coverage / Brick Break - quite strong, coverage

Answer 3

Gen V

Armaldo (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 248 Atk / 12 Def / 248 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Rock Blast
- X-Scissor
- Earthquake
- Swords Dance

Answer 4

Armaldo (M) @Focus Sash
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
-Swords Dance
-Waterfall
-Rock Blast
-Earthquake

Comments

Armaldo can't learn waterfall

Answer 5

Armaldo @ Life Orb

Trait: Battle Armor

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Jolly Nature (+Spe, -SpA)

• Swords Dance
• X-Scissor
• Stone Edge
• Earthquake

Swords Dance boosts its already high attack.
X-Scissor is STAB and hits Psychic Grass and Dark types hard.
Stone Edge is STAB as well and hits Fire Flying and Bug types, helping out X-Scissor.
Earthquake rounds out the coverage, and hits Steel types hard and is a powerful neutral attack against Fighting types.

Answer 6

Armaldo (M) @ Leftovers

Trait: Battle Armor
EVs: 196 HP / 60 Atk / 252 SDef
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Curse
- Block
- Rock Slide / Rest
- X-Scissor / Rest

If you can pull it off, this set works amazingly.
Running 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef also works well.
First you use Block, this will trap your opponent. The goal is to trap a pokemon who can't do anything but set up on you, or who has a general offensive disadvantage when attacking you. The first situation is probably more likely.
Next, now that you've trapped a helpless opponent, you can set up Curse.
It's important to choose an opponent that you can take enough hits from to be able to safely rest off that damage. Next you have your choice of STAB, and Rest to heal off damage. +6 X-Scissor / Rock Slide is normally going to hurt.