Sing
| Sing | |
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 Sing in Brawl. | |
| User | Jigglypuff |
| Universe | Pokémon |
| Article on Bulbapedia | Sing (move) |
| “ | Jigglypuff can put its enemies to sleep if they are in range of its Sing attack, although the attack does not work on airborne foes. | ” |
| —Jigglypuff's trophy description in Melee | ||
Sing (うたう Utau) is Jigglypuff's up special move in the first three Smash Bros. games.
Overview
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 at all to playable characters and simply disables opponents to set up for attacks. (However, this move can damage bosses and Subspace enemies instead.) Similar to a grab, opponents can escape the sleep state more quickly by rapidly moving the control stick or d-pad.
In Melee and Brawl, the more damage the opponent has, the longer they will remain asleep. However, in Super Smash Bros., the opponent remains asleep for a longer time if he/she bears a low damage. The time the opponent remains asleep is shortest when bearing any damage over 300%. Also, in that game, mashing buttons and tapping the control stick have no effect at all.
Unlike most up special moves, this is not a third jump since it gains no height. Instead, players often use Rollout or an air dodge as an extra jump, or simply use Pound. 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, which is why people tend to use the move in midair. Even this can be dangerous. As the move puts enemies to sleep, it has no effect on midair foes.
However, in Melee and Brawl, one can sing when near a ledge. Jigglypuff will grab the ledge and the singing will be canceled, but if there is an opponent near enough, they will fall asleep. This can be used to set up combos.
Sing can be used in team battles very effectively by having Jigglypuff put enemies to sleep, then have its teammate use a fully charged Smash Attack or powerful special attack like Falcon Punch on the sleeping opponents.
Origin
Sing is based off a move of the same name in the Pokémon RPGs. In the Pokémon games, Sing is a status Normal-type move that has the sole effect of putting the opponent to sleep. For some Pokémon like Jigglypuff and Blissey, this is the only move they can learn that puts the opponent to sleep, though Sing's very poor accuracy rate of 55% causes it to be ignored in competitive play.
In every Pokémon generation, Sing is the main move of Jigglypuff's evolutionary family. Jigglypuff is the most known Pokémon for using this move, being mentioned in its Pokédex entries, as well as a Jigglypuff in the Pokémon anime being famous for appearing in almost all episodes of the first seasons, and using Sing to put people to sleep.
Gallery
Sing in Smash 64.
Sing in Melee.
Trivia
- Switching languages changes Jigglypuff's name, as well as the song it sings.
- Although it does no damage, Sing can destroy targets in Super Smash Bros. Melee's Target Test, and can also destroy capsules in any mode.
- In Event 39: Jigglypuff Live!, there is an easter egg involving the Sing attack. If the Jigglypuff player uses Sing when the television zooms on it, the other Jigglypuff will fall asleep even if they are far away from the player, and the time they sleep will be considerably longer. This is likely a reference to Jigglypuff in the first seasons of the Pokémon anime, as in an episode, it sings during a whole concert, putting all people there to sleep.
- When used against enemies and bosses, the third set of music waves are more damaging than the first two.
- Although inefficient, Sing will be used by a computer-controlled Jigglypuff in Melee during recovery after having used all of its midair jumps, just like any other CPU character would do with its up special, excluding Luigi. This is an example of flawed AI.
- In Smash 64, if Pikachu uses Quick Attack horizontally towards a singing Jigglypuff, Pikachu will slide a great distance as it falls asleep. A similar thing happens when Captain Falcon uses Falcon Kick in Brawl, with Jigglypuff not being damaged at all, though Falcon will slide a shorter distance.
- In Melee, Jigglypuff eyes will still be open if it uses Sing on a magnifying glass.
