Does this Gengar have value for power up?
I've had this for a long time and was keeping it as a trophy because it has a legacy Shadow Claw move, but as i was going back though my mons since TMs came out I was thinking it might have real value if I Charge TM it to get Shadow Ball and power it up. Should I?
Gengar Shadow Claw/Sludge Bomb 12/14/15 lvl22 CP1622
Answers
For sure, Shadow Claw is leagues ahead of Gengar's other 2 quick moves. If you look on raid simulators, Shadow Claw + Sludge Bomb / Shadow Ball is normally like 10 seconds faster than the best non-Shadow Claw moveset (most of the time that's Hex + Shadow Ball).
On top of that yours has great IVs. There's IV snobs that only care for 15 attack, but all it's going to cost you is one extra power up to hit a damage breakpoint, which isn't much. You can "fix" IV deficiencies with extra power ups but there's no fixing a Hex or Sucker Punch Gengar into a Shadow Claw one.