cyclops bird
Overview
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- Magic Guard provides an immunity to indirect damage, immune to stealth rock
- Access to reliable recovery and calm mind
- Base 97 Speed gives it a niche over reuniclus, outruns most defensive pokemon and some offensive pokemon
- faces competition with other psychic types: meloetta, cresselia, and reuniclus are bulkier, delphox is faster and has similar coverage
- struggles to break psychic-types such as the aforementioned meloetta
Attacker
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name: Attacker
move 1: Psyshock
move 2: Heat Wave
move 3: Roost
move 4: Energy Ball / Calm Mind
ability: Magic Guard
item: Life Orb
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
nature: Timid
Moves
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- psyshock is stab, hits specially bulky pokemon harder and ohkos virizion
- heat wave hits steels that would otherwise wall
- roost is reliable recovery
- energy ball hits rhyperior and water types such as slowking
- calm mind boosts power and special bulk
- dark pulse can be used to hit psychic types, 2hkos reuniclus and still hits slowking
Set Details
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- speed and special attack are maximized alongside a timid nature to hit as hard and as fast as possible
- life orb boosts the power of sigilyph's attacks
- magic guard provides an immunity to indirect damage, which includes life orb recoil
Usage Tips
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- switch in and hit hard with wide coverage
- if running calm mind, take advantage of its usable bulk and magic guard to set up on passive mons such as alomomola and aromatisse
Team Options
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- pangoro can take on some of the dark and psychic types that sigilyph dislikes, and can also switch in on sigilyph's dark weakness. assault vest kecleon falls under a similar vein, but it can switch in on ghost attacks instead.
- pursuit trappers such as houndoom and escavalier are great partners. escavalier can also threaten some dark types, such as shiftry, with megahorn.
- grass-types can switch in on sigilyph's electric weakness. virizion can also switch in on its dark weakness as well
Other Options
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- thunder wave
- tailwind
- focus sash
- ice beam for mega sceptile, dazzling gleam for dark-types
- flame orb is garbage
- especially with cosmic power
Checks & Counters
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**Dark-types**: Dark-types can switch in on Sigilyph's Psychic STAB and retaliate with a STAB Dark attack. Pangoro can OHKO Sigilyph with Knock Off. Houndoom is a great counter to Sigilyph, as it is immune or resists all of Sigilyph's common attacks. Drapion can hit Sigilyph with a super effective STAB Knock Off and remove its Life Orb. Skuntank and Spiritomb can pursuit trap Sigilyph or hit it with Sucker Punch.
**Psychic-types**: Psychic-types can handle Sigilyph lacking the uncommon Dark Pulse. Reuniclus and Cresselia is able to set up Calm Mind against Sigilyph. However, Reuniclus is 2HKOed by Dark Pulse if unboosted, and Cresselia struggles to beat Sigilyph with Calm Mind. Meloetta is a hard check to Sigilyph, being able to switch in on any move bar Dark Pulse and retaliating with a Shadow Ball.
**Faster Pokemon**: Fast offensive Pokemon such as Jolteon, Heliolisk, and Mega Glalie naturally outspeed and OHKO Sigilyph with their STAB attacks. Choice Scarf users such as Rotom-C and Hitmonlee outspeed and have moves to hit Sigilyph super effectively.
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