Jumpluff is a round, blue Pokémon with red beady eyes and small, round feet and tail. Three cotton puffs, almost as large as the body itself, extend off it: one on each arm, and one on top of its head. These puffs produce cotton spores that it can use to float in the air, and it can control its flight even in a hurricane. Three to four leaves grow at the base of the top puff.
Jumpluff drifts on seasonal winds and can use its spores to masterfully maneuver itself around the globe. It will spread spores as it floats around to create offspring. It descends if it encounters cold air currents while it is floating. Though it spends a good amount of time in the air, it is commonly sighted above open grasslands.
Major appearances
Officer Jenny had a Jumpluff in An Egg-Sighting Adventure!. Jenny used this Jumpluff to dust for footprints left by the criminals who supposedly stole Ash's Egg.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in Hatch Me If You Can, where they attacked Team Rocket during their attempt to steal Ash's Larvitar. Their actions motivated Larvitar into using Screech and then Hidden Power to send Team Rocket blasting off.
A Jumpluff appeared Thawing an Icy Panic!, under the ownership of Ramos. It reappeared in The Green, Green Grass Types of Home! during a Gym battle against Ash. Jumpluff battled Fletchinder but was soon defeated.
Minor appearances
Multiple Jumpluff debuted in a brief cameo in Celebi: The Voice of the Forest.
Multiple Jumpluff made their main series debut in Bulbasaur... the Ambassador!, where they were among the feuding Pokémon at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
Three Jumpluff appeared in I Politoed Ya So!, under the ownership of Tammy. She uses them in her cheerleading squad.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in Fangs for Nothin' as inhabitants of the Dragon Holy Land.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in Showdown at the Oak Corral, where they were among the Pokémon living at Professor Oak's Laboratory. They reappeared in Journey to the Starting Line!.
A Jumpluff appeared in Gonna Rule The School!, under the ownership of a student of the Pokémon Trainers' School.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in Grass Hysteria! as residents of the Forbidden Forest.
A Jumpluff appeared in Hokey Poké Balls!, where it was one of the Pokémon seen at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
A Jumpluff appeared in That's Just Swellow as one of the participants of the Crossgate PokéRinger competition.
A Jumpluff appeared in Who's Flying Now? as one of the Pokémon featured in the Fortree City Feather Festival.
A Coordinator's Jumpluff appeared in The Saffron Con as a Pokémon that was kidnapped by Team Rocket.
A Trainer's Jumpluff appeared in Off the Unbeaten Path, where it was seen participating in the Pokémon Orienteering competition.
A Trainer's Jumpluff appeared in Curbing the Crimson Tide!.
A Jumpluff made a brief cameo appearance in Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
A Coordinator's Jumpluff appeared in Dressed for Jess Success!, where it was seen participating in the Lilypad Contest.
A Jumpluff briefly appeared in An Old Family Blend!, under the ownership of a Trainer participating in the Lily of the Valley Conference.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
A Jumpluff appeared in A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle!.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in the opening sequence of Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction.
A Trainer's Jumpluff appeared in Thawing an Icy Panic! as residents of Ramos' ranch.
A Trainer's Jumpluff appeared in Forming a More Perfect Union!.
Multiple Jumpluff appeared in The Power of Us, with three each under the ownership of different Trainers, one being wild, and the others appearing during a flashback.
Pokédex entries
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EP229
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Jumpluff
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Ash's Pokédex
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Jumpluff, the Cottonweed Pokémon. Jumpluff catches seasonal winds to spread its cotton-like spores and make offspring.
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XY058
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Jumpluff
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Serena's Pokédex
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Jumpluff, the Cottonweed Pokémon. Jumpluff drifts around the world with the seasonal winds. It releases cottony spores as it travels.
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- At 6.6 lbs. (3 kg), Jumpluff is the lightest Pokémon that has undergone two evolutions.
- In Pokémon Colosseum, the shadows of Jumpluff's spores are square. In addition, the spores are always facing the same way relative to the camera, and as such, the player is the only able to see one side of them. This was fixed in Pokémon XD.
- Jumpluff and its pre-evolutions were given their English names by Nob Ogasawara.
Origin
Jumpluff appears to be based on the final stage in the lifespan of a dandelion. Its two hands closely resemble pom-poms, and its movements in the console games, such as Pokémon Stadium 2 and Pokémon Colosseum, also bring to mind a cheerleader.
Name origin
Jumpluff is a combination of jump and fluff. It could also be a corruption of plush, meaning a soft object or an object made of felt. The names of all stages of its evolutionary line are based on the phrase, "Just a hop, skip, and a jump away."
Watacco is a combination of 綿 wata (cotton) and 根っ子 nekko (root).