Jigglypuff is interesting in this game...
Real good players or previous good players of the smash 4 puff know of her hidden potential, but if you look at every character in the game, she falls just short of everyone. You can't be optimistic, and look at everything she can possibly do, and put her at high, or even high-mid or just mid...
Jigglypuff to me is the most interesting low tier (also what I voted) on the tier list. A lot of players compare her to melee and how much worse she is, and brawl to how similar she is, probably creating a more negative look on her. She also doesn't have any really powerful representatives quite yet (though an uprising is brewing), and the world thinks her absolute best is probably space around fairs, and GET DAT REST AWWHHHHH YEAH!! (And also Hungrybox, who is good, but I don't think he's quite with the current meta of Jigglypuff). Because of that false image, she is often a character used for heavy disrespect, especially where I'm from, and it almost offends me that people think of her that way to the charcter I love and the charcter I know can be way more than no threat, unless you're bad, and then humiliated. Heavily disrespectful characters are considered the worst characters in the game, and even some top players put her as the absolute worst any charcter could get, but this cannot be true. A lot of people play her for fun, but not competitively enough to play her well, and listen to the communities thoughts, and don't try anything new, and look on how we get no buffs, or learn the new things.
The other side of this placement has problem due to some of the mains. They often focus in all the amazing Jigglypuff has, and how the world doesn't know about it. It's good to be optimistic, and have faith, but her placement on the list won't EVER be ran on thought of how she could possibly be the considered mid to high tier. It's ran on results, and once you start playing REALLY good players, it can get terrifying compared to just good players. Especially when mains talk about match-ups, but seriously, we don't win every match-up because we can half the time easily edge guard with this one given option, and punish here, and space around. A lot of match-ups are HEAVILY and I mean HEAVILY underrated on threads, and we seem to win A LOT, at least from more influential people on these boards. It's absolute poppycock! If this was true, the whole community would know some of this, and puff would HAVE to be voted at least low mid or mid, but time and time again, she's either very bad, or the worst. Not ALL because she's underrated, and there is some truth behind that result.
Jigglypuff is not unviable. If people can win tourneys with Zelda (worst character as of now), and many of us can get decent to good tourney results with her, than there shouldn't be a viable and unviable. Everyone's viable. This heavily accepted philosophy is BS to me. So is this idea of disrespect charcters. We ARE underrated, there's no denying that. But we can't be misleading enough to be anywhere near the high. At the very-very most, she's mid tier. Jigglypuff does have things that make us want to vote her higher than she is now. I want to vote her higher than she is now. We have been advancing our meta tons recently. But as of now, we are where we are.
As of now, she shouldn't be placed in OMG-she-is-the-worst-I-can't-breath-PLEASE-help, or, seriously-she's-so-underrated-and-deserves-at-least-high-mid. She's low. MAYBE low-mid. Not because she's bad, becuase others are better.
Thanks to listening to me rant. I'm not trying to call anyone out, and to be honest, and can't pinpoint everyone to these categories, but most people I know fit into them somewhere. But please,
Don't be super optimistic; we won't learn...
Don't be unfaithful: we'll never advance to a better a rank. If you are a true and DEVOTED Jigglypuff main/secondary, you must have some optimism.
Optimism is a good thing, but for how much some of us use it, it poisons us just as much. I know this was basically on why she's voted this way on the tier list and not why she should be (in that case, I would've voted higher), but I feel like it's more important than repeating the qualities we know Jigglypuff has.