Sigilyph (Pokémon)


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Sigilyph (Japanese: シンボラー Symboler) is a dual-type  introduced in Generation V.

It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.

Biology
Sigilyph is a multicolored spherical Pokémon, possessing two cyan eyes with a third on a black appendage on top of its head. Its base is mostly black, with a green zigzag pattern in the middle and a black pattern surrounded by green. Sigilyph has a pair of wings and a long tail-like appendage that are yellow with blue and red stripes on each of the "feathers", two black-colored three-toed "feet", and two small spikes at its base.

Sigilyph will use its psychic powers to attack anyone who invades its territory. Due to it retaining memories from when it guarded an ancient city or served as the guardians' emissaries, it apparently flies along the same route constantly.

Major appearances
Sigilyph debuted in White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram, under the ownership of Damon. He used its power to activate the energy harnessed by the and  in the Sword of the Vale so he could lift it into the sky.

Sigilyph made its main series debut in Explorers of the Hero's Ruin!, where it was one of the guardians of the Hero's Ruin.

In Cloudy Fate, Bright Future!, used a Sigilyph to attack Professor Sycamore and his assistants Sophie and Cosette, and then to battle. She operated under the belief that they were all the threat to Kalos that Olympia had predicted.

Minor appearances
Multiple Sigilyph appeared in White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram. One appeared in the opening sequences of both s, while the others appeared in a flashback as former residents of the now-relocated Sword of the Vale.

In Pokémon Generations
In The Uprising, s used multiple Sigilyph to battle Iris and the Unova Gym Leaders at N's Castle.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
A Sigilyph was among several Pokémon attracted to Alder's wrestling match with his in Nimbasa City in A New Perspective.

A Trainer's Sigilyph appeared in Drawing Bridges and PS547.

A Sigilyph appears under the ownership of an unknown Trainer in The Transfer Student where it battled with 's Foongy.

's Sigilyph first appeared in PS546.

A Sigilyph appeared in a flashback in PS548.

In the Pokémon RéBURST manga‎
A Sigilyph appears as a Burst form of Sabin.

Movie adaptations
Damon's Sigilyph appears in the manga adaptation of . It is used by its trainer to trap inside the Sword of the Vale.

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Trivia

 * Sigilyph is the only Pokémon that can have the Ability which does not have it as a.

Origin
Sigilyph appears to have been inspired by the, specifically the avian figures, and. Like Sigilyph, the Nazca Lines are found in a desert. It also resembles a.

Name origin
Sigilyph may be a combination of ' and '. It may also draw its name from, a mythological spirit of the air.

Symboler may be a combination of symbol and ' or '.