21 Facts About Jynx

Jynx, known in Japan as Rougela, is a Pokemon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokemon franchise.

Jynx was one of 151 different designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by Ken Sugimori for the first generation of Pocket Monsters games Red and Green, which were localized outside Japan as Pokemon Red and Blue.

In early development, Jynx originally had a male counterpart based on a yeti, as well as the Kaiju Woo from Ultraman.

Also known as the "Human Shape" Pokemon, Jynx is a female-only species that resembles the Japanese mythical creature Yuki-onna.

Originally portrayed with a black face and dark blue hands, Jynx's design was changed to purple coloration after critiques that it perpetuated racism.

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Jynx have no visible feet, and in the games leave no footprints.

Jynx has a pre-evolution, Smoochum, which evolves into Jynx when it receives enough experience from battles and reaches level 30.

Jynx speak in a language that only other Jynx can understand, though the sound is described as similar to human speech.

Jynx are psychic, and can attack either by kissing an opponent or launching "strange orbs" at them, and can protect themselves with a psychically-generated barrier.

Jynx originally appeared at Pokemon Red and Blue, then appeared in other Pokemon games such as Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Gold, Pokemon Silver, Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and Pokemon Platinum.

Jynx appeared again in the episode The Ice Cave, which was not aired in English-speaking countries for the same reason.

Jynx later appears in Pokemon Orange Islands series, in episodes still present in American rotations.

Jynx made an appearance in a contest in All Things Bright and Beautifly.

However, because Jynx had been animated with black skin instead of purple, her 13-second appearance was cut from the English dub.

Jynx later appears in episodes 116 and 117 of Pokemon: Advanced Generation, with the inoffensive purple skin color.

Lorelei's Jynx is noted for having the ability to generate voodoo dolls out of ice using its Ice Beam.

Jynx has made a number of appearances in the Pokemon Trading Card Game, with the black-skinned design before the Weatherford controversy, and with the purple-skinned design after Nintendo regained control of the Pokemon TCG.

Jynx first appeared in the Base Set with her black-skinned design, but later reprints of this card have the purple-skinned design.

Likely as a result of this controversy, Jynx has been altered in various releases of Pokemon games featuring the black design, with the American Virtual Console rerelease of Pokemon Yellow changing its face and hands to purple, and the Virtual Console rerelease of Pokemon Snap on the Wii and Wii U doing the same.

Washington Post writer Mary C Morton described Jynx as having "explicitly, albeit grossly caricatured, womanly features", and challenged the assertion that the games crossed gender barriers with such.

Russ Frushtick of Polygon claimed that Jynx is a worst first-gen Pokemon that should be wiped from existence, and further stated that Jynx is just problematic at every turn.