Whirlwind

Normalstatus

Immediately ends wild battles. Forces trainers to switch Pokémon.

Pokémon that learn it

Butterfree

Pidgey

Pidgeotto

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Power—

Accuracy—

PP20

Priority-6

In-battle effect

Switches the target out for another of its trainer’s Pokémon selected at random. Wild battles end immediately. Doesn’t affect Pokémon with Suction Cups or under the effect of Ingrain.

TM & HM

All TM lists →

Whirlwind is taught by TM04, TM94 — the number varies by game.

Game	Machine
Legends: Z-A	TM94
Red & Blue	TM04
Yellow	TM04

Changes across generations

Whirlwind had different stats in earlier games. A dash means that value was unchanged from what it is today, and an arrow marks what happened when that era ended — ▲ raised or ▼ lowered.