Wigglytuff – Shining Revelry
Date Reviewed: April 12, 2025
Ratings Summary:
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is horrible. 3 is average. 5 is great.
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Wigglytuff (A2b 061, 078) is a Stage 1 Colorless Pokémon that evolves from Jigglypuff. It has 100 HP, (F) Weakness, (C)(C) Retreat Cost, the Ability “Comforting Song”, and the attack “Gentle Slap”. Comforting Song can be used once, during your turn. This Ability heals 20 damage from your Active Pokémon. Gentle Slap costs (C)(C) and lets Wigglytuff do 50 damage to the opponent’s Active. Wigglytuff is available at the ♦♦♦ and ★ rarities.
There are no pieces of C) Pokémon support or counters, but there’s no (C) Weakness in Pocket, so you’ll never enjoy +20 damage from that. All (C) Pokémon run on all (C) requirements, at least for now, so that is sort of an advantage. They might enjoy a better energy-to-damage ratio for (C) Energy costs than non-(C) Pokémon… or it could just be that some Pokémon who happen to be Colorless enjoy it, while most don’t.
Being a Stage 1 is “okay”. You’ll need to not only run the required Basic Pokémon – Jigglypuff – but field it, have it survive a turn, and then you can finally have it evolve into Wigglytuff. Aerodactyl ex (A1a 046, 078, 084) can prevent an Active Jigglypuff from evolving, but it’s not doing well (or showing up often) in competitive play right now.
Wigglytuff has 100 HP; typical for a Stage 1. It’s not great, but at least it requires a full force medium attack (or better) to pull off the OHKO against it. Plus, this Wigglytuff is intended to be a Bench-sitter, used for its Ability. (F) Weakness isn’t good, but it probably won’t make a lot of difference, either. 100 HP, remember? The Retreat Cost of (C)(C) is normally on the happy side of “average”, but I tend to worry about Bench-sitters with it being a bit too easy to strand for a turn.
Comforting Song is essentially a reusable, one-per-turn Potion, but only for whatever is your Active when you use it. Considering Potion still sees play, that’s not bad. I do have to point out, though, that a 1-1 line of Wigglytuff takes the same deck space as running two Potion. A full 2-2 line is enough to max out on both Potion and Pokémon Center Lady. It isn’t strictly true, since you’re not using up your Supporter for the turn, but you might need to use Comforting Song five times to really justify it.
This is not the only Ability you can find on a Pokémon that can heal other Pokémon. We’ve got Butterfree (A1 007; P-A 013), and Shaymin (A2 022, 159). You could argue that Dusknoir (A2 072) counts as well. Shaymin heals everything on your side of the field by 10, when you use its once-per-turn Ability. Butterfree is the same, but heals 20 instead of 10. Dusknoir does not heal, but it lets you move all damage counters from one of your Pokémon to itself.
Butterfree’s Ability is clearly better than Wigglytuff’s but we’re talking about running a Stage 2 instead of a Stage 1. Dusknoir is also a Stage 2, and its all-or-nothing with its Ability, which can end up KOing Dusknoir. The only real rival is Shaymin. It’s been seeing some competitive success, and while it only heals 10 damage, it can do so for all your Pokémon… and it’s a Basic. Maybe Wigglytuff’s attack will help?
Gentle Slap is good… for filler. As already stated, Wigglytuff is about it’s Ability, so almost any attack is better than none. I’d rather it only required one Energy, even if it did less damage, because you’re probably in a bad way if Wigglytuff is attacking. At two Energy, you may as well retreat into something else, unless you’ve got nothing else ready to go.
Let’s talk Jigglypuff; we’ve got three different options! All are (C) Type, Basic Pokémon with (F) Weakness, (C) Retreat Cost, and one attack. Jigglypuff (A1 193) has 60 HP, and for (C)(C) it can use “Pound” to do 30 damage. Jigglypuff (P-A 022) has only 50 HP, but just needs (C) to use “Sing” to put the opponent’s Active to sleep. Jigglypuff (A2b 060) also has 60 HP, and for (C) it can use “Roll Out” to do 20. I say go with Jigglypuff (A2b 060); a single Energy attack is better when you’re in a pinch, but Sing isn’t worth having only 50 HP.
There’s also Wigglytuff (A1 194) and Wigglytuff ex (A1 195, 265, 279). Both are Stage 1 (C) Type Pokémon with (F) Weakness, Retreat Costs of (C)(C), and one attack each. Wigglytuff (A1 194) has 100 HP, and can use “Hyper Voice” for (C)(C) to do 60 damage. Wigglytuff ex has the usual Pokémon ex baggage, but enjoys 140 HP. For (C)(C)(C), Wigglytuff ex can use “Sleepy Song” to do 80 damage and put your opponent’s Active to Sleep.
Wigglytuff (A1 194) is pure filler, but I could see mixing and matching Wigglytuff (A2b 061, 078) with Wigglytuff ex. Since they share Jigglypuff, you can’t get all of them into play at the same time, but I could see running one of whichever version is not a deck focus, just for some extra flexibility. I’m not sure if it is worth the deck space, however. Nor have I heard of any decks doing this.
Wigglytuff (A2b 061, 078) has actually seen some recent competitive success! Some are backing Meowscarada (A2b 007, 073) with Wigglytuff. The catch is that it is on a small scale at this point. The deck’s barely a week old, with less than 40 entries over at LimitlessTCG, at the time of writing. It’s got a 52.38% Win Rate. Will it maintain, improve, or drop off? I don’t know, myself. What I can tell you is… they’re using Jigglypuff (P-A 022), so looks like I was wrong about favoring HP over Sleep.
Rating: 3/5
Since it’s enjoying even a tiny amount of success, I’m scoring Wigglytuff on the happy side of average. I hope the deck takes off. The ★ version of Wigglytuff is actually somewhat infamous, as it’s art falls into the uncanny valley for many. I think it did for me a bit at first, but now I’m kind of partial to it. If I had this specific version, I’d probably be running the deck myself.
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