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jumpluff
#189

Jumpluff

Cottonweed Pokémon

GrassFlying

Once it catches the wind, it deft­ ly controls its cotton-puff spores to float, even around the world.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 55
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 55
Sp. Def 95
Speed 110
Total 460

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

skiploom Skiploom Lv. 18
jumpluff Jumpluff Lv. 27

Moves

Details

Category Cottonweed Pokémon
Height 0.8 m
Weight 3.0 kg
Base Exp 207
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Fairy ,Plant

Sprites

jumpluff Front Front
jumpluff Back Back
jumpluff Front Shiny Front Shiny
jumpluff Back Shiny Back Shiny
jumpluff Official Art Official Art
jumpluff Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

1v1 Usage: 0.5%
SubSeed
Item
Wide Lens
Ability
Infiltrator
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 20
Def 236
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Although it doesn't look threatening at first, Jumpluff has a few tricks up its sleeve to make it a viable Pokemon in the 1v1 metagame. Its ability to use both Sleep Powder and Leech Seed combined with a great Speed stat allows it to put slower foes to sleep and stall them out. Unfortunately, Jumpluff isn't extremely consistent, as Sleep Powder's somewhat low accuracy even with Wide Lens will occasionally cause it to miss. Additionally, Jumpluff's standard set cannot touch Grass-types at all, meaning it's useless and will almost always lose the matchup. Lastly, multi-hit moves like Rock Blast, priority moves like Ice Shard, and speed control moves like Flame Charge further add to the list of Jumpluff's bad matchups.

Most Used Moves

Leech Seed
100.0%
Protect
22.7%

Most Used Items

Wide Lens
17.7%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc