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Soundwaves and music notes come out from its body and travel out a certain distance. All opponents within range and touching the ground will fall [[asleep]] for a short amount of time. This attack does no damage to playable characters and simply disables opponents to set up for attacks. (However, as [[enemies]] and [[boss]]es cannot be put to sleep, this move deals damage to them instead.) Similar to a grab, opponents can escape the sleep state more quickly by [[button mashing]] or rapidly moving the [[control stick]] or [[d-pad]] (except in the original ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'').

Unlike other up special moves, this is not a third jump since it gains no height. Instead, players can often use [[Rollout]] or an [[air dodge]] as an extra jump, or simply use [[Pound]] for horizontal recovery. However, it does increase the size of Jigglypuff's ledge-grab box.

Timing of this move is crucial, as the duration of the sleep is short, so that opponents who fall asleep at the beginning may wake up before Jigglypuff finishes singing if they are at low damage. This will leave Jigglypuff very vulnerable to counter-attacks. Using the move in midair can shift this risk somewhat, by ensuring that opponents who fall asleep will do so closer to the middle of the move than at the beginning (so that they will not wake up before the move is over); however, this does not change the fact that the move has no effect on midair foes, and so Jigglypuff will still be vulnerable, only at the beginning of the move rather than at the end.

The move is very rarely used in competitive play for singles, due to the move possessing three major flaws. Firstly, the move has very long startup lag with a huge visual cue (since the first soundwave appears before the hitbox comes out), and due to the move dealing no damage to shields and having long ending lag, the move can very easily be shielded and punished. Secondly, the move's range is very limited, especially considering that the move only affects grounded opponents, and as such, against a good opponent, the only realistic way to land the move is to catch an opponent during the ending lag of a powerful attack, however the move's long startup means that it is often more effective to punish the ending lag with [[Rest]] instead, which throughout the games has, at most, 1 frame of startup. Finally, although the move usually puts the opponent to sleep for slightly longer than the move's duration at mid to high percents, the opponent can easily mash to wake up before Jigglypuff can act again, making the move nearly useless in singles. However, Sing can be used in team battles very effectively by having Jigglypuff put enemies to sleep, then having its teammate use a fully charged [[smash attack]] or powerful special attack like [[Falcon Punch]] on the sleeping opponents.