Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff (, Purin), is a creature from the series. It debuted in the series' first generation, and is considered part of the "perfect-attendance crew" throughout the entire  series.

Origin
Jigglypuff first appears as one of the 151 species of Pokémon in Pokémon Red and Green, and has appeared in all subsequent mainline installments (though it was absent from Pokémon Sword and Shield until a post-release update). It is characterized by its round, pink body, cat-like ears, swirling tuft of hair, and large, glassy eyes. Initially, Jigglypuff was solely a Normal-type Pokémon, but in Generation VI, it gained the newly-introduced Fairy type as its secondary type. The categorizes Jigglypuff at #039 as the "Balloon Pokémon". Jigglypuff also has an apparent ancient relative known as, a that debuted in .

The Pokédex also provides additional biological info about the Jigglypuff species. After it mesmerizes its foe with its large, round eyes, it sings its lullaby until the foe sleeps, and does not stop to breathe until the foe is fully asleep; it can perform longer with its single breath if it inflates its body with air beforehand. Its vocal chords can freely adjust the wavelength of its voice, and it sings at precisely the right wavelength to make its foes most drowsy. The sound waves of its singing voice match the brain waves of someone in a deep sleep. Nothing can avoid falling asleep after hearing a Jigglypuff's song, but some are more naturally resistant to the effects than others and take much longer to sleep. This effectively endangers a singing Jigglypuff's life if its opponent takes a long time to fall asleep, as it cannot breathe until they do.

One particular Jigglypuff is a highly prominent and popular recurring character in the Pokémon anime series, often seen carrying a marker that resembles a microphone. It is well known for putting any human or Pokémon to sleep with its irresistible singing; however, this causes it to become angry and scribble over its audience's faces while they are asleep.

Jigglypuff's somewhat feminine appearance and voice often leads fans to refer to it as "she". Indeed, while there are both male and female Jigglypuff within the Pokémon universe, females are more common than males, with 75% of all Jigglypuff being female. However, per The Pokémon Company's stance on referring to Pokémon with gender-neutral pronouns regardless of gender differences, the Jigglypuff in the Super Smash Bros. series is referred to as "it".

As a playable character
Jigglypuff is one of the four secret characters in Super Smash Bros. Despite not being a lead character in the Pokémon franchise, Jigglypuff was a desirable choice for the game for two primary reasons: its popular appearance in the anime at the time (a trait shared with Mewtwo, who was also intended to appear in SSB), and its physical similarities to Kirby, which allowed the staff to reuse his animations as a base. Owing to this, Jigglypuff is considered a kind of semi-clone, though later installments would fully declone it from Kirby.

Jigglypuff's Rest attack is considered to be one of the most powerful moves in the game. Aside from sharing similar physical characteristics with, its jumps are weaker than Kirby's. Jigglypuff is right in the middle of the tier list, being ranked 6 out of 12.

In-game description:
 * The Balloon PKMN with the big, round eyes. It sings a soothing melody, sending those that hear it to sleep. When mad, it puffs itself up. As a Balloon PKMN, its body is light, weak, and easy to knock away.


 * Works:
 * Pokémon (GB)

As a playable character
Jigglypuff returns in Super Smash Bros. Melee as one of the eleven secret characters. It is unlockable after clearing Classic or Adventure mode with any character except (unless  is unlocked already). Like a few other characters, it has a new neutral special move, Rollout, which replaces its previous neutral special Pound, now its side special. Jigglypuff has been largely buffed from Smash 64 to Melee, and is now ranked 3rd on the tier list in S tier. It is the only character that gets instantly KO'ed from a broken shield, as Jigglypuff is shot upwards at incredible speeds instead of being stunned.

Trophies
Jigglypuff has three trophies to its name, just like all the other playable characters; the original trophy, acquired by clearing Classic Mode with it on any difficulty, and "Smash Red" and "Smash Blue" trophies won by clearing Adventure and All-Star Modes, respectively.

As a playable character
Jigglypuff returns once again in Brawl. Jigglypuff appears the same as before, but is more difficult to unlock than in previous installments of the series, considering it was the 33rd character introduced on the DOJO!! and the last unlockable character to be introduced.

Jigglypuff's Final Smash is Puff Up. It inflates and gets larger and pushes any character off the stage, and Jigglypuff is invulnerable during this form.

Jigglypuff ranks 36th out of 38 (in F tier) on the current tier list, suffering extreme nerfs from Melee. Jigglypuff suffered from the biggest tier drop from one of the best characters in Melee to a candidate for the worst character in Brawl. Due to the mechanics, its back and forward aerials are no longer as disjointed, its combo ability was more reliant on hitstun, and its approach capabilities are also poor. As a result, Jigglypuff is considered non-viable in Brawl.

As a playable character
Jigglypuff is once again an unlockable playable character in the 3DS version, but a starter character in the Wii U version. Its appearance is now more similar to its appearance in recent Pokémon games, with it having blue eyes for the first time in the Super Smash Bros. series.

Jigglypuff is ranked 55th on the current SSB4 tier list in the G tier, a slight drop from its already poor standing in Brawl. Despite its reputation as a bottom tier character in Brawl, Jigglypuff was nerfed in the transition. While its combo ability was restored and Rest and back aerial were given extra KO power, Jigglypuff's recovery, aerials and already poor grounded game were nerfed, its poor endurance has been reduced further thanks to SSB4's weaker shields and the addition of rage, and its edgeguarding ability was nerfed indirectly due to the addition of ledge-trumping. While many veterans have had their recoveries buffed, Jigglypuff's recovery was nerfed, due to its shorter jumps and the lower momentum given by Pound. Lastly, Jigglypuff has received no direct changes whatsoever in game updates, despite the fact that every other character on the roster received changes of some kind. As such, its tournament status remains very poor like in Brawl, having little to no tournament representation and overall poor results.

As a playable character
Jigglypuff returns as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Unlike in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, it has reverted back to being an unlockable character. Although it has been moderately buffed, it still has very exploitable weakness and is thus considered to be an average character at best. However, as of patch 6.0.0, Jigglypuff was given buffs to many of its moves, most notably its down air, which is now able to combo into Rest. This has led many players, including to consider moving it to a much higher tier, while players such as  believe the buffs are overrated and that it should remain as a low tier character.

Trivia

 * Jigglypuff is the only character whose up special cannot recover any height. To substitute, Pound functions as a minor jump.
 * This was also the case for Yoshi's up special prior to Brawl.
 * Jigglypuff is the first character who cannot experience helplessness from its own moveset; in Jigglypuff's case, it originally couldn't render itself helpless in 64. In Melee, the addition of Rollout and the air dodge enabled it to become helpless, but both no longer leave it helpless as of Brawl. From Smash 4 onward, it can once again be rendered helpless by touching a red trampoline from Pac-Jump.
 * Jigglypuff and Zero Suit Samus are the only characters in the Super Smash Bros. series to receive new special moves invoking helplessness in subsequent installments of the Super Smash Bros. series despite debuting in the series without any, as Rollout renders Jigglypuff helpless after usage in the air in Melee (the game Rollout was added in). However, this property has been removed as of Brawl.
 * Jigglypuff has significantly fewer voice clips in the English, French and German versions of Brawl, SSB4 and Ultimate compared to the Japanese versions. This is more noticeable in the latter two games' Sound Test, as the English versions of both games list only 18 voice clips compared to 26 or 27 in the Japanese versions of SSB4 and Ultimate, respectively.
 * In Ultimate, Jigglypuff is the only character to receive new Japanese voice clips while reusing its English voice clips from previous installments.
 * Under The Pokémon Company International, Jigglypuff is currently voiced by Michele Knotz in the English dub of the Pokémon anime; however, the Smash Bros. series continues to use recycled voice clips from Rachael Lillis, its original voice actress from the anime's 4Kids Entertainment dub until 2006.
 * Until SSB4, Jigglypuff had green eyes, the same color as its coloration, instead of the blue eyes it normally has. This also matches the recurring Jigglypuff character from the anime.
 * Of the four unlockable characters featured in SSB, Jigglypuff spent the longest time as an unlockable character throughout the series, as it wasn't a starter character until.
 * Jigglypuff was considered to be cut in both Melee and Brawl, and Ness was considered being replaced by Lucas in Melee, making them the only members of the "Original 12" that are known to have been considered being cut at certain points in the development of subsequent games in the Super Smash Bros. series.
 * Jigglypuff is the only character in the Super Smash Bros. series to be fully decloned.
 * Prior to Brawl, Jigglypuff was the only playable character in the series to use a different voice actor between regions (barring Smash Taunts).
 * Jigglypuff has the slowest falling speed of all fighters in every Smash game to date.
 * Despite having slightly slower air speed than Yoshi in every game but Melee by default, Jigglypuff has the fastest air acceleration by default in every game but Brawl.
 * Jigglypuff is one of two Pokémon playable in Super Smash Bros. to not be present in the base release of ', the other being Greninja. However, Jigglypuff was added as part of ' DLC, while Greninja remained absent from the games even after its updates.
 * Jigglypuff and Ganondorf are the only characters to rank dead last on the current tier lists for multiple games. The NTSC and European tier lists for Brawl and the Ultimate tier list place Ganondorf dead last, while the Japanese tier list for Brawl and the Smash 4 tier list place Jigglypuff dead last.