Salamence being talked about like the only Pokemon in the game that can beat stall really bothers me. So does this "so it has no counters, so what" attitude. I hope that doesn't snowball to other tiering arguments.
Anyway, let's see... it seems that Latias and Garchomp were banned for centralization, forcing worse Pokemon/movesets to be used and/or often beating their counters. Salamence can certainly beat its "counters" through prediction or superior speed, but does it centralize? The classic Pokemon that "beat Dragons but suck otherwise" like Weavile, Mamoswine, and especially Cresselia don't really see use anymore, while others like Starmie, Gliscor, Celebi, and the occasional Hippowdon often consider Ice attacks to be the most replacable when they want to use support moves on their sets.
If the metagame is losing to Salamence, people could really start going out of their way to do something about it, and if the metagame is Salamence-centralized, it really doesn't look like it to me. I don't see how a competitive community would just roll over and allow something to destroy it, so... somehow, people are dealing with Salamence. Yes, it's a bit unfair that it gets to be powerful, bulky, and fast at the same time, but we've dealt with it for a while now without using crappy Pokemon and moves we don't want to. That's why it's hard to figure out whether we need to ban this SOB or not, We've all thought it was "kinda broken" or "the best Pokemon" or whatever at some point, but it's not obviously broken like other things would be.
Like previously said, this really comes down to whether the people chosen for the council like Salamence being in the game or not, because there isn't a clear-cut right and wrong. I wish we had leaderboarder-vs-leaderboarder logs in this thread to read, though.
I'm not sure why I keep making sorta-big posts like this, considering I'm not very important and wouldn't mind it being banned or allowed.