Jigglypuff (SSF2)

Jigglypuff is a veteran starter character in Super Smash Flash 2, hailing from the Pokémon franchise. Unlike her traditional availability status in the Super Smash Bros. series and the original Super Smash Flash, where Jigglypuff has been mostly an unlockable character; her availability status in Super Smash Flash 2 is that of a starter character. According to developers, this change was made to appeal Jigglypuff's very early appearance in the game and because she is among their favorite characters on the game's roster, alongside Mr. Game & Watch, and Rayman. Her sprites are custom-made and based on her appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Her voice-clips and moveset are directly taken from the same game.

Jigglypuff is currently ranked 31st on the tier list of C tier, a noticeable drop from 23rd of C+ tier last tier list, and a huge drop from 2nd of S tier on last demo's tier list, causing Jigglypuff to have the second highest drop after Sonic. It has strong KO moves in its smash attacks, forward throw, and Rest. It has an amazing air game due to its high air speed; fast, high priority aerials that provide good spacing and edgeguarding tools; five jumps, which can be combined with her Pound to give it one of the best horizontal recoveries in the game; and its slow falling speed, which allows it to break out of juggles and remain in the air for extended periods of time.

However, Jigglypuff possesses numeroous weaknesses. Due to her nature as a Balloon Pokémon, Jigglypuff is the lightest and floatiest character in the game, which makes her very easy to KO at even low precents, in comparison to the other fighters, especially off the top of the screen. She also has problems with range, making it vulnerable to characters with disjointed hitboxes, like, , , and. Jigglypuff also has difficulties making approaches, as she has problems dealing with projectiles while lacking a projectile herself. She also has a terrible ground game; with a combination of poor ground mobility; the slowest walking and running speeds in the game, short range, and slow speed in her attacks. As such, she currently resides in the middle of low-tier.

Jigglypuff has a small playerbase and an overall lackluster presentation online. The only notable competitive Jigglypuff player is Chaunch, who continually defies the tier list by placing high in tournaments. Although its strengths are apparent to make it good at fighting, its weaknesses drastically outnumber the aformentioned strengths, causing it to become a low-tier character.

Attributes
Jigglypuff is notable for being a featherweight, floaty and very combo-oriented character. Jigglypuff has decent air speed, but when combined with her floatiness, great air control, five midair jumps and good priority in her aerials gives it a great air game. However, her jumps are very low, and she has the slowest walking and running speeds, not even her initial dash is fast at all, which makes her ground game arguably one of the worst in the game. The most notable attribute about her is her light weight, being the lightest and floatiest character in the game, even lighter than.

Jigglypuff has KO moves in all of her smash attacks, forward throw at high percentages and Rest. Due to its five midair jumps, slow falling speed, good air speed and pound gives Jiggypuff one of the best recoveries in the game. This helps in Jigglypuff's great edgeguarding tactic in the wall of pain.

Jigglypuff has a decent grab and throw game, although she possesses one of the shortest grabs in the game. While her grab possesses overall poor range, up throw is Jigglypuff's best throw, where it can lead into combos at low percentages, and into Rest against and highfallers and heavyweights, such as and. Forward throw is Jigglypuff's strongest throw, being able to kill most characters at around 100%. Back throw is notrious for being an edgeguarding starter.

However, Jigglypuff is held back by numerous weaknesses. Jigglypuff is the lightest and floatiest character in the game, which makes her beyond the worst character in terms of endurance and survivability, as this also causes her to get easily KO'd at around 35% by characters with powerful moves, throws or smash attacks, like, and. While all of her aerial attacks can easily combo into Rest — an attack that can KO at almost all percentages —, she is extremely easy to KO both vertically and horizontally, due to her floatiness, combined with her lightweight status; she has the lowest weight value in the game, currently. In addition, while most of her moves like forward smash and back aerial have great range, her overall range is terrible out of all other characters in the game; including lightweights. This is worsened by the fact that many of its moves like down smash, forward tilt and up tilt have underwhelming range for having great ranges. This allows characters with disjointed hitboxes to keep her at arm's length and stop her approaches.

Jigglypuff also has difficult approaches, as projectiles can outnumber it while she lacks a projectile herself. Additionally, while forward throw is her strongest throw, none of her throws outside of forward throw tend to KO until higher precentages of damage. Due to these weaknesses, she is a somewhat lackluster in the neutral game and one of the most terrible characters in terms of fighting. Also, she doesn't have much reliable KO options outside of forward throw and smash attacks, and her aerials are overall not so powerful and they lack good range, despite having lingering hitboxes. Jigglypuff's greatest weakness is its shield. While Jigglypuff's shield shrinks at a slower rate, if Jigglypuff's shield is broken, it will be sent upward with enough force to Star KO herself, which makes her shield game the worst in the game, and also allows several characters with potent shield breakers like, and  to easily outnumber her while using shield, also making her vunerable while using shield, because of her nature being a Balloon Pokémon.

Jigglypuff is described as an air-based "glass cannon", which is a character that possesses a potent offense while being very vunerable herself, but an extremely weak defense and can be easily KO'd due to her extremely light weight. She is held back by a weak approach and her short range in most of his attacks, and the worst ground game in the air. Overall, her weaknesses considerably outweigh the aformentioned strengths, making Jigglypuff one of the least effective characters in the game, and these weaknesses are enough to make her reside at the middle of low-tier.