Lickitung
Type Tier
Normal UU
Statistics
Stat
HP
90
 383
Atk
55
 208
Def
75
 248
Spc
60
 218
Spe
30
 158
Name Moveset

Swords Dancer

 ~ Swords Dance
~ Earthquake
~ Hyper Beam
~ Body Slam

If you look at Lickitung, you can see that it has decent HP, but mediocre to lousy everything else. It's tied with Porygon for the 3rd lowest total stats for a fully-evolved Normal Pokémon. So what makes him usable? Why should you use him instead of anything else, even in UU? The answer: Swords Dance.

It is the only pure Normal Pokémon in the game that can learn Swords Dance, and it is pretty much a must if you want Lickitung to be useful. It's best to wait late-game when all the Pokémon are paralyzed so he can set up. Once you get a couple Swords Dances up, it's all gravy. After two Swords Dances, even Exeggutor falls to the mighty Hyper Beam. Body Slam is for when you don't think Hyper Beam can KO yet. Earthquake for Rocks and Gengar, obviously.

In UU, it should be your choice if you want a strong sweeper and don't mind setting up a turn. Its Speed sucks a little more here, since paralysis is used more sparsely, but its stats don't pale as much in comparison to UU Pokémon as they do to standard.

Other Options

Wrap is always cool for some constriction, and with STAB and Swords Dance, it could actually pose a decent threat. With Screech, you can get to the 4x attack modifier a turn faster (for example, it takes 3 Swords Dances to get to 4x Attack, but with a Swords Dance and Screech, you get your Attack doubled and the opposing Pokémon's Defense halved, still giving your Attack 4 times the normal damage). Counter would be nice if you are going against Normal Pokémon (Dodrio) in UU, and Substitute can help you set up if needed.

Opinion

In standard, it has to wait until the end to do anything, and by then other Pokémon can do a better job. It is in underused that it really shines, and is highly suggested to try. It is also awesome to look at.

Counters

Exeggutor and Machamp deal with Lickitung pretty easily because they can take its hits and dish back a lot of damage before Lickitung has set up. Golem and Rhydon, though weak to Earthquake, hardly fear Lickitung's pitiful 55 base Attack. Slowbro can easily set up on Lickitung.

Taking UU into account, Fighting-types such as Hitmonlee and Primeape make short work of Lickitung. Aerodactyl resists its attacks, although it hates an unlucky paralysis. Again, like Golem and Rhydon, Kabutops and Omastar are a little wary of the super effective Earthquake, but can try and set up alongside Lickitung and take it down.