
Is Igglybuff Good in FireRed & LeafGreen Playthrough?
Baby Jigglypuff. Pure Normal in FRLG with AbilityCute Charm. Strictly worse than Jigglypuff in every stat. Breed from Jigglypuff if you want one, but there's no gameplay reason to use Igglybuff over the parent.
Brock's typing presses Igglybuff's defenses.
Misty's typing presses Igglybuff's defenses.
Lt. Surge's typing presses Igglybuff's defenses.
Erika's typing presses Igglybuff's defenses.
Koga's typing presses Igglybuff's defenses.
Igglybuff trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Igglybuff trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Igglybuff trades roughly evenly with Giovanni's team.
Wigglytuff has the type edge here and should clean up Lorelei's team.
Wigglytuff trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Wigglytuff trades roughly evenly with Agatha's team.
Wigglytuff trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Wigglytuff trades roughly evenly with Terry's team.
Catch Igglybuff on Four Island (hatch from egg, Lv 5).
- After Brock
- TUTORNormalMega Kick18075%5
- TUTORNormalMega Punch12085%20
- After Erika
- TM43NormalSecret Power105100%20
- TM22GrassSolar Beam120100%10
- After Sabrina
- TUTORElectricThunder Wave—90%20
- After Giovanni
- TUTORNormalDouble-Edge180100%15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody Slam128100%15
- TM42NormalFacade105100%20
You can pick up the Moon Stone in Mt. Moon. 3 other locations are also available.
- After Brock
- TUTORNormalMega Kick18075%5
- After Erika
- TM15NormalHyper Beam22590%5
- HM04NormalStrength120100%15
- TM22GrassSolar Beam120100%10
- After Koga
- TM01FightingFocus Punch150100%20
- After Giovanni
- TUTORNormalDouble-Edge180100%15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody Slam128100%15
- TM42NormalFacade105100%20
How to Get Igglybuff in FireRed & LeafGreen
Igglybuff is a Day Care hatch. Put a Jigglypuff or Wigglytuff into the Four Island nursery with a compatible partner, and the egg produces this pre-evolution.
Wild Igglybuff may be holding when caught:
Catch Jigglypuff at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Igglybuff.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Igglybuff
- 2
- 3
How to Obtain Igglybuff in FRLG
Step 1Igglybuff ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave Jigglypuff with a compatible partner at the Four Island Pokemon Day Care to receive a Igglybuff egg. Requires the Rainbow Pass to access Four Island.HOME TRANSFERNot TradeablePokemon HOME on Switch FireRed & LeafGreen is permanently deposit-only — once it launches, Igglybuff can be sent from this game into HOME, but never transferred in.
Step 3Evolve into Wigglytuff
Igglybuff Weakness
Type-wise, Igglybuff takes extra damage from Fighting. Ghost moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. Only 1 weakness makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Igglybuff Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Igglybuff
Mankey Fighting | C | |
Mankey Fighting | C | |
Igglybuff Evolutions
Igglybuff is the baby form here. It evolves into Jigglypuff by leveling up, but you can't breed it directly. Hatch one by breeding the evolved forms instead. Evolving adds up to 225 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
FRLG Igglybuff Best Moveset
Normal in this format with 90 HP offset by 15 Defense and 15 Speed. Baby stage where Wigglytuff at the end barely justifies the investment.
Best Build
Igglybuff best EVs are Sp. Def and Attack
Screens Setter Moveset
- Perish Song
- Counter
- Thunder Wave
- Light Screen
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Fake Tears and Feint Attack give Igglybuff options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 9 types already covers a decent range on top of Double-Edge and Mega Kick. The egg moves push it further.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its extremely flexible and elastic body makes it bounce continuously--anytime, anywhere.
It has a very soft body. If it starts to roll, it will bounce all over and be impossible to stop.
Igglybuff FireRed & LeafGreen Guide
Igglybuff hatches from a Pokemon Egg in Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen. Leave Jigglypuff at the Day-Care Center on Route 5 with a compatible partner Pokemon to receive an Egg that hatches into Igglybuff.
Game Availability
Igglybuff first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 18 games across 9 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB

Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut

Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS

Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG

FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP

Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS

HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW

Black & White - Gen 5B2W2

Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY

X & Y - Gen 6ORAS

Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM

Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM

Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7LGPE

Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh

Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP

Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV

Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW

Winds & Waves