Igglybuff is a small, bipedal balloon-like animal that is completely pink. It has a rounded tuft of hair on top of its head, a small swirl-like pattern on its forehead, and red eyes. Igglybuff has small, stubby limbs. This small Pokémon is extremely elastic and can bounce like a ball, although it may not be able to stop if it does this. It smells sweet to calm the emotions of its foes. Although it has singing abilities, it is not able to sing for long periods due to its underdeveloped vocal cords. It often gets a sore throat from singing too frequently. Igglybuff tend to live in the grasslands close by freshwater streams. It uses water from the streams to gargle in its sore throat.
Igglybuff twins appeared in Same Old Song and Dance. These Igglybuff were owned by a girl named Brittany and were practicing for a concert. Jigglypuff was jealous towards the Igglybuff twins as they were stealing its audience.
Whitney owns an Igglybuff, which she used to battle (what she thought was) Suicune when she visited the Mahogany Gym. Its Sweet Kiss provided an opening for her Miltank to attack the creature, but failed when the moving ice sculpture felled Miltank and forced it to team up with Pryce's Swinub.
Igglybuff, which evolve into Jigglypuff, are so incredibly elastic that they always seem to be bouncing. They have stubby legs, so for these Pokémon, bounding from place to place is much faster than walking. Unlike its equally adorable relatives, Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff, Igglybuff has red eyes.
An Igglybuff stars as the player character in the special episode Igglybuff the Prodigy. This Igglybuff is the unevolved Guildmaster Wigglytuff from the main story.
Game data
NPC appearances
Pokémon Stadium 2: Igglybuff appears in a quiz-show styled mini-game alongside Cleffa. A series of Pokémon parade across the screen and the player has to count how many of the Pokémon species the player is instructed to count parade across the screen. The score is based how close the player is to the right number.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
Igglybuff's vocal chords are not sufficiently developed. It would hurt its throat if it were to sing too much. This Pokémon gargles with freshwater from a clean stream.
Igglybuff has a soft and plushy body that feels very much like a marshmallow. From this body wafts a gently sweet fragrance that soothes and calms the emotions of its foes.
Igglybuff rhymes with Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff. Iggly is a shortening of jiggly and wiggly, indicating it is less than either of its evolutionary line.
Pupurin may be a combination of プチ puchi (petit), 風船 fūsen (balloon), and 膨れる fukureru (to expand or inflate), as well as a pun on プリン purin (pudding).
In other languages
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Japanese
ププリン Pupurin
From プチ puchi (petit), 風船 fūsen (balloon), 膨れる fukureru (to expand or inflate), and a pun on プリン purin (pudding).
Grepa Berry (100%)
For other sprites and images, please see Igglybuff images on Bulbagarden Archives.
