There are so many good Melee Clubs in the game which are i119. Heck there are even clubs that are very much designed to be melee, look at Sindri. Some recent melee Clubs also come from the Reisenjima HELM NMs.
WHM also has a lot of Melee Armor, its silly to argue that WHM is not designed to melee, even as a solo private time type deal.
There is clearly at least some intention within the game to make WHM have the option to solo as a Melee.