Jigglypuff (PM)

Jigglypuff in Project M and Project+
Universe	Pokémon
Base game appearance	Brawl
Moveset inspiration	Jigglypuff (SSBM), Jigglypuff (SSBB)
Alternate costume	Fairy Costume Jigglypuff

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 5th out of 26.

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 Falco, Sheik, and Peach; 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 Fox 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

The headband Jigglypuff costume was a scrapped alternate costume that Jigglypuff would have received in a later version before the mod was cancelled. It is a selectable costume in Project+

Jigglypuff has remained relatively unchanged from Melee to Project M, although it has gained a few additional options from Brawl-based mechanics.

Aesthetics

• Neutral attack and up aerial now use the Fan sound effect.

Ground Attacks

• Dash attack remains cancelable from Brawl, allowing Jigglypuff to DACUS, improving its ground mobility.

Special Moves

• Sing puts enemies to sleep for longer than it did in Melee and Brawl to compensate for the new sleep mechanics (mashing causes characters to wake up earlier).

Revisions

v2.5b

• Jigglypuff's Up Taunt now winks. The eye that winks depends on the direction the user is facing.

v3.0

• Sing sleep power increased to compensate the sleep mechanic changes.

v3.5

• Forward throw now hits all characters.
• Beginning of forward roll intangibility: Frame 3 → Frame 2
• Forward throw deals less knockback.
• Hitboxes and knockback of down throw now match Melee's.

v3.6

• Fixed a bug that prevented Jigglypuff from using Beam Swords correctly.

Moveset

Up to date as of version 3.6.

		Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack			3%	Jigglypuff performs two short-ranged jabs forward.
			3%
Forward tilt			10%	Jigglypuff does a horizontal spinning kick. Has relatively short range. This move can be angled up or down.
Up tilt			9% (clean), 8% (late)	Jigglypuff leans forward and kicks up from behind with its right foot. Deals high knockback.
Down tilt			10%	Jigglypuff crouches low and sticks one foot forward.
Dash attack			12% (clean) 8% (late)	Jigglypuff dashes forward and headbutts the opponent. This move can be used for a DACUS.
Forward smash			17% (clean) 13% (late)	Jigglypuff lunges forward and delivers a front kick. Has good range but significant ending lag.
Up smash			14%	Jigglypuff headbutts the air, hitting opponent with great force. A smaller hitbox exists in Jigglypuff's head that deals 15% damage, but never actually connects due to being overlapped by the bigger hitbox.
Down smash			12%	Jigglypuff spins around, then does a split kick, hitting on both sides simultaneously. Both feet launches opponents at a semi-spike trajectory, making it a useful edgeguarding move. Both of Jigglypuff's feet are intangible while the hitboxes are out.
Neutral aerial			12% (clean), 9% (late)	Jigglypuff squishes itself and sticks one forward. A decent spacing move; has sex kick properties.
Forward aerial			10% (clean body), 12% (clean feet), 7% (late)	Jigglypuff quickly extends both feet in front of itself. A useful move for edgeguarding and is the backbone of many of Jigglypuff's aerial combos.
Back aerial			12%	Jigglypuff spins backward and kicks behind itself. This move can lead to a wall-of-pain.
Up aerial			12%	Jigglypuff waves one arm overhead, launching opponents upwards. Quite useful as a juggling move when combined with Jigglypuff's multiple jumps.
Down aerial			2% (hits 1-8)	Jigglypuff drills down at the opponent, hitting multiple times. This move can be led into ground moves, or into a combo finisher with Rest. Similar to Samus's up tilt, this attack can only meteor smash grounded opponents, making it an unconventional meteor smash.
Grab			—
Pummel			3%	Slaps opponent with its tuft of hair. Fairly slow.
Forward throw			5% (hit 1), 7% (throw)	Jigglypuff puffs itself up to push its opponent away. Deals surprisingly high knockback compared to most throws.
Back throw			10%	Jigglypuff back suplexes the opponent.
Up throw			11%	Jigglypuff spins once and tosses opponent upwards. The strongest out of all of Jigglypuff's throw. Leads to a Rest on fast-falling opponents, which is the first step for the space animal slayer combo.
Down throw			1% (hits 1-4), 3% (hit 5), 2% (throw)	Jigglypuff grinds the opponent into the ground.
Floor attack (front)			8% (foot), 6% (body)	Spins one leg around while getting up, kicking behind then in front of itself.
Floor attack (back)			8% (foot), 6% (body)	Spins one leg around while getting up, kicking behind then in front of itself.
Floor attack (trip)			5% (hit 1), 3% (hit 2)	Spins on its head and kicks around itself.
Edge attack (fast)			7%	Jigglypuff flips up from the ledge with a kick.
Edge attack (slow)			8%	Jigglypuff slowly gets up and spins its body in a similar fashion to its down smash.
Neutral special		Rollout	10-18%	Jigglypuff rolls forward to attack. The move's power, range, and speed can be increased by charging it. When it is fully charged, Jigglypuff will say "Jiggly!" and briefly flash. The direction of the move can be changed by pressing the opposite direction on the control stick and hitting an opponent will cause Jigglypuff to rebound. This move can help with horizontal recovery, but will put Jigglypuff into a helpless state whenever the move ends in the air.
Side special		Pound	13%	Jigglypuff punches forward, causing opponents to be launched upward. The move has short range but stay out for a long time, similar to a sex kick. The hitbox also deals strong shield damage. This move can be used to gain vertical and horizontal distance by tilting the control stick upward or downward respectively.
Up special		Sing	—	Jigglypuff plays its infamous song, causing any opponents nearby to fall asleep. The more damage the opponent has, the longer they stay asleep. The sing time can be cancelled if Jigglypuff grabs onto the ledge, with the opponent falling asleep (leaving them vulnerable), but that isn't effective due to the move's such low range.
Down special		Rest	28%	Jigglypuff's most devastating attack. Jigglypuff dozes off, gaining a few frames of invincibility, before completely falling asleep. During the invincibility frames, any opponent making direct contact with Jigglypuff will receive extremely high flame damage and huge knockback, making the ping sound effect. This move can OHKO lighter opponents or larger opponents at close edges.
Final Smash		Puff Up	17%	Jigglypuff rapidly swells up to a gargantuan size, barely being able to cover up all of Final Destination. During the inflation process, opponents are pushed off the stage. When Jigglypuff shouts "JIGGLY!!!", opponents are then completely pushed off the stage, sometimes leading to a OHKO. Touching Jigglypuff during deflation deals damage and high knockback.

In competitive play

Notable players

•  Amida - Solid Kentucky Jigglypuff main.
•  Darc - One of his secondaries.
•  Edge - Ranked 3rd on the Las Vegas Project M Power Rankings.
•  Hungrybox - 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 the PMRank 2016.
•  SoulPech - The best Project M focused Jigglypuff main.
•  Fuzzyness - Defeated Professor Pro with his Jigglypuff at Heir 3.
•  Fridge -best jigglypuff in louisiana in Project M with notable results in region

Alternate costumes

Jigglypuff now gets back its yellow crown costume from Melee as another palette swap. It additionally has a new costume that gives it a more opaque color and fairy wings, which emit sparkles when moving in midair; this heavily references the fact that Jigglypuff has become part Fairy (type) in recent Pokémon games (more specifically the Generation VI 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, and a selectable costume in Project+.

Jigglypuff's alternate costumes in PM