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Pidgey (Base Set BS 57)
[C][C] Whirlwind: 10
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)
weakness: [L]×2
resistance: [F]-30
retreat: 1
Illus. Ken Sugimori
Base Set — 57/102 — Common
A common sight in forests and woods. It flaps its wings at ground level to kick up blinding sand.
feyblade
The whirlwind ability has been reprinted several times and shifted to almost every type in the entire tcg (barring dragon, which will invariably get it due to the nature of Dragon Tail.) The designers clearly did not realize the inherent problems with this sort of effect: your opponent will get a free switch, no matter what. While there will be many situations in which he will not want this effect to occur, the bigger his bench gets, the more likely that he will simply switch to something that will crush your hopes of victory.
The devs would later get their act together: many of these pokemon have alternate attacks that allow them to act without having to give the opponent free switches.
Blob Takeshi
It works if you opponent has 10HP left I guess.
Dr. λ the Creator of Variables, Binder of Variables, Applicator of Terms, Checker of Types, and β-Reducer of β-Redexes
Maybe they just wanted Pidgey to be bad. Some Pokemon were made bad apparently on a whim. Just look at Base Gastly and Base Porygon. They must have been high if they thought that those cards would be even remotely playable.
Blob Takeshi
Porygon used to be better in a prototype card, because it had double the HP and had a move that did damage.