Lick is better than Shadow Claw

You lost me at "trading meta".

Lick Gengar will be nice to have and is more incentive to go raiding for it. Gastly candy isn't hard to come by so there shouldn't be any major scorn over Lick being raid exclusive. Lick has at best 1% higher DPS than Shadow Claw and from what I've read that 1% fluctuates from battle to battle. All in all it'll be nice for the collection and I may power one up to compare its use with my Shadow Claw Gengar but I still don't see myself dropping dollars to go wild with raids.

EDIT: Why did you make two threads for this?

So far I have seen practically zero trade market for anything except shinies, SC Gengar EDIT: and of course rare regionals and unowns. Now SC Gengar drops down into the same pool of technically valuable but mostly uninteresting legacies like RT/RS Omastar and IS/IB Lapras.

Personally I don't care, my SC Gengar was never getting traded away. I only use trading for luckies and distance candy, almost 5k at Gentleman medal.