Jigglypuff (PM)

Jigglypuff is a playable character in the Brawl mod Project M. It returns from Melee with a nearly identical moveset.

Jigglypuff is ranked 36th out of 41 on the official tier list, in the midst of the D tier. This is an improvement over its Brawl placement, where it was 36th out of 38, but still a very significant drop from its Melee placement of 3rd out of 26. However, it drops significantly in the official Project + tier list, ranking dead last at 42nd out of 42, landing at the bottom of D tier.

Attributes
Seeing as how Jigglypuff was one of the worst characters in Brawl, it has been nearly fully returned to its Melee incarnation for its appearance in Project M. However, Jigglypuff's tournament success relative to the cast is still reminiscent of its significantly less viable Brawl appearance. Jigglypuff still boasts good matchups in theory against Melee's top tiers, such as, , and ; however, the revamped Melee mid- and low-tiered characters and Brawl newcomers give it significant trouble. Many of them now have better disjoints, projectiles, and KO confirms, which makes it much harder and riskier for Jigglypuff to drift around opponents and intrude into their space as it could in Melee. Additionally, Project M's frame leniency for advanced techniques arguably benefits Jigglypuff the least out of all the returning Melee characters, as it was already not a technically demanding character. This drastically reduces Jigglypuff's consistency in tournament play, since more technically demanding characters such as will now make fewer mistakes that it can capitalize off of.

Jigglypuff is also held back by the new stage list. Project M introduces small, cramped tournament legal stages such as the revamped Green Hill Zone and Wario Land, which are huge detriments to Jigglypuff's survivability. Jigglypuff also still has problems fighting on Final Destination, and the low ceiling on the now-starter Pokémon Stadium 2 can work against it as well. With the increased number of stages, tournaments often allow two bans even in best of 5 sets, which means that Jigglypuff's opponents can ban its best stage in Melee, Dream Land, while the Jigglypuff player cannot ban all of its bad stages at the same time.

Overall, while Jigglypuff can still be a capable character in Project M, it is often considered bottom tier by the competitive community due to its difficulty in adapting to the new characters and stages.

Changes from Melee to PM
Jigglypuff has remained relatively unchanged from Melee to Project M, although the majority of its grounded moves have very slightly less range, and it has gained a few additional options from Brawl-based mechanics, such as DACUS. However, due to the changes and introduction of many characters, stages, and mechanics that relatively hinder its gameplan and meta, as well as other veterans from Melee receiving more substantial changes and improvements, Jigglypuff is considered to be much worse relative to the cast overall.

Ground Attacks

 * Neutral attack:
 * Up tilt:
 * Down tilt:
 * Dash attack:
 * Forward smash:
 * Up smash:
 * Down smash:
 * Down tilt:
 * Dash attack:
 * Forward smash:
 * Up smash:
 * Down smash:
 * Forward smash:
 * Up smash:
 * Down smash:
 * Down smash:
 * Down smash:

Aerial attacks

 * Neutral aerial:
 * Forward aerial:
 * Back aerial:
 * Up aerial:
 * Down aerial:
 * Forward aerial:
 * Back aerial:
 * Up aerial:
 * Down aerial:
 * Up aerial:
 * Down aerial:
 * Up aerial:
 * Down aerial:
 * Down aerial:
 * Down aerial:
 * Down aerial:

Throws and other attacks

 * Grabs:
 * Pummel:
 * Forward throw:
 * Down throw:
 * Pummel:
 * Forward throw:
 * Down throw:
 * Forward throw:
 * Down throw:
 * Down throw:
 * Down throw:
 * Down throw:

Special Moves

 * Rollout:
 * Pound:
 * Sing:
 * Rest:
 * Sing:
 * Rest:
 * Sing:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:
 * Rest:

Revisions
v2.5b

v3.0

v3.5

v3.6

Changes from PM to P+
As a result of its underperformance relative to Melee and the rest of the cast, Jigglypuff was slightly buffed in the transition from Project M to Project+, albeit not enough to substantially raise its tier standing, and it is still relatively poorly regarded in Project+ for the same reasons as before.

Ground Attacks

 * Neutral attack:
 * Forward tilt:
 * Down tilt:
 * Up smash:
 * Down tilt:
 * Up smash:
 * Down tilt:
 * Up smash:
 * Up smash:

Throws and other attacks

 * Forward throw:

Special Moves

 * Rollout:
 * Sing:
 * Sing:
 * Sing:

Moveset
Up to date as of version 3.6.

Notable tech
Labbing Discord Tech Post

Notable players

 * - One of his many secondaries.
 * - The best Jigglypuff player in the world. Placed 4th at Paragon Los Angeles 2015, 5th at Smash 'N' Splash 2, and is ranked 20th on PMRank 2016.
 * - Has numerous top 50 wins at Illinois events.
 * - The best Project M focused Jigglypuff main.

Project M
In versions after 3.0, Jigglypuff got back its yellow crown costume from Melee. It also received a new costume that gives it a more opaque color and fairy wings, which emit sparkles when moving in midair; this heavily references Jigglypuff's change to being a part Fairy type in recent Pokémon games (more specifically the games), which is a newly-introduced elemental type.

PMDT had confirmed on their subreddit that Jigglypuff would have an additional alternate costume based off its headband costume in Melee in a future version of Project M. While it never made it into the mod officially, it was later released on the Brawl Vault.

Project+
After it could not appear in Project M, Project+ brings new costumes for Jigglypuff, including the previously unused headband costume.


 * Headband: The headband for Jigglypuff's Green Team costume from Melee.
 * Bow: The bow for Jigglypuff's Red Team costume from the original Super Smash Bros.
 * Wears the cap worn by earlier designs of Officer Jenny.
 * Dawn: Wears the beanie worn by Dawn, the female protagonist of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
 * Beret: Wears a simple black beret.
 * Picnicker: Wears the cap worn by the Picnicker trainer class in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
 * Youngster: Wears the cap worn by the Youngster trainer class, with its design taken from.
 * Elaine: Wears the cap worn by Elaine, the female protagonist of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!



Z-Secret Costume: Luchador Mask (El Globo)

R-Secret Costume: Giant Bell Jigglypuff from the Pokémon anime episode "The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis"