Its unfortunate that this card is more expensive and easier to interact with than its peers, but the ceiling might justify the rickety floor
For example, if you are building for a format where the only switching options reduce retreat cost directly (like Float Stone and Air Balloon), with no regular Switch cards, you can exploit that fact to trap your opponent's support Pokmon active with a no-retreat attack to get free prize cards and time
Even with the exact same cards I used to have a few duplicated regular UED Base Pikachus, every single one had a slightly different color shade
Months later, after I had joined the main set's team, we were looking for a common white removal spell
Cottonee (Master Ball Pattern) #4Common $2.77 Sawsbuck (Poke Ball Pattern) #7Uncommon $0.56 Emboar (Poke Ball Pattern) #13Rare $0.50 Leavanny (Master Ball Pattern) #3Uncommon $15.52 Pignite (Master Ball Pattern) #12Common $11.98 Simisear (Poke Ball Pattern) #15Uncommon $0.39 Cottonee (Poke Ball Pattern) #4Common $0.29 Deerling (Poke Ball Pattern) #6Common $0.29 Litwick #16Common $0.09 Pansear (Poke Ball Pattern) #14Common $0.27
The Flying Pikachu, lifted into the air by a cluster of balloons, became one of the most charming illustrations in the game's history, inspiring the Celebrations Flying Pikachu V over twenty years later