Pokémon Review: Sigilyph

Sigilyph is a pretty interesting Pokemon design-wise, and isn't bad competitively either.
With Roost and Cosmic Power, it's a pretty good choice for an RU team, and with 97 base speed it is one of the fastest in RU. It also has Stored Power, which increases base power by 20 for each of the user's positive stat boosts, making it fairly annoying to face.
Sigilyph's biggest flaw is the fact it's weak to Electric, Ghost, Dark, Ice & Rock types, which are all extremely common.

As for abilities, it has what is considered by many one of the best abilities of the game - Magic Guard, which prevents residual damage.
For EVs, it depends which set... On a defensive set, use mainly HP and Speed and on a Offensive set, use mainly Special Attack & Speed.

The 2 most commonly used sets in RU are these, credit to Smogon:

Defensive
Sigilyph @ Flame Orb
252 HP/16 Def/240 Spe
Nature: Timid
Ability: Magic Guard
Moveset: Cosmic Power, Roost, Psycho Shift, Stored Power

Offensive Life Orb
Sigilyph @ Life Orb
4 HP/252 SpA/252 Spe
Nature: Timid
Ability: Magic Guard
Moveset: Psychic/Psyshock, Air Slash/Calm Mind, Roost, Hidden Power Fighting/Calm Mind

In the TCG: 
Card I am reviewing: Sigilyph - 41/98 - Emerging Powers

This Sigilyph card is, infact very decent for a basic Pokemon.
It has 2 attacks - Reflect, which requires 1 Psychic Energy and Telekenisis which requires 1 Psychic Energy and 2 Colorless Energies.

Reflect makes it so damage done to Sigilyph by attacks is reduced by 40 after applying weakness and resistance. In my opinion it's an extremely solid attack and will save it from going to the discard pile in many cases.
Telekenisis does 50 damage to one of the opponent's Pokemon, and the damage it does is not affected by weakness or resistance. This is another solid attack in my opinion, as many basic Pokemon can do a maximum of 10-30 damage, and it is not often that a non-rare basic Pokemon can do 50 damage.

Another thing I like about this card is that it has a cheap retreat cost of 1 Colorless Energy.

Link to card scan: http://pokebeach.com/scans/emerging-powers/41-sigilyph.jpg