If I may, I'm going to sum up most every pro-Salamence OU argument in this thread...
While Salamence is very threatening, if you're well prepared you can take him down.
I'd like to first point out that almost every single argument has mentioned "being prepared for it" or used the phrase "with the right team." Quite frankly that alone should be popping red flags off to how dangerous this thing truly is. In team building, you should always think goal first, threats second. But the way people are talking about this suddenly considerably more powerful Salamence, they are thinking Salamence first, Goal second, and Other threats third. This is simply not the way it should be. When a pokemon impacts the game so thoroughly, that you have to think about it as a threat WHILE you build your team, and not after, is simply a testament to how overpowered it is.
Hell, Latias had more tangible counters than Salamence does now, and with a beast like that unleashed on the metagame you are guaranteed to lose at least one pokemon in the process of "taking it down". Here's a likely scenario that may happen in the current metagame for Salamence...
Salamence's teammate goes down to a physical attacker. Salamence comes in and intimidates. With this physically bulkier set the intimidated attacker won't do enough to break the Sub that Mence just set up. Now Mence takes out the enemy, and waits for the Ice Shard (CB Weavile/Scarf Mamoswine). Ice Shard takes out your sub while in return you take out the revenge killer. Now you're at a weak 62% (Stealth Rock and Sub + Lefties recovery) with no sub. From there Starmie can come in and clean up with Ice Beam.
In this scenario you must sac two pokemon just to take it out. Well that's all well and good. But what if you switch to the Ice Shard user knowing a Sub will pop up. Well, herein lies the problem...
Salamence's teammate goes down to a physical attacker. Salamence comes in and intimidates. Cleverly the attacker is switched out to the Ice Shard abuser immediately thus saving it's life, while also minimizing the damage done. But instead of subbing up the Salamence uses Dragon Dance. This isn't good. Now you're forced to use Ice Shard, since Ice Punch isn't fast enough. Yache Berry weakens the effect of Ice Shard, Salamence only takes 67% damage. Salamence OHKO's with Flamethrower. Starmie goes in, is taken down by the faster Outrage. Outrage spam takes out more and more of your team until it's GG.
Well say you ran a Scarf Starmie to take out both possibilities...
Salamence switches out for Weavile while Scarf Starmie uses Ice Beam. weavile takes 30% Damage from Rocks and Beam. Checkmates the Starmie with Pursuit. With some wish support Salamence can come back out as he pleases.
Simply put, with the amount of variety that Salamence has, you have to predict perfectly to minimize damage. And by minimize damage I mean sac only one pokemon instead of 3. If you cannot see how overpowered that is, then you are sadly blind.
EDIT: Magnezone Says hi to Steel types that switch in to Outrage too.
