Is it? I find that it's actually pretty easy to deal with. Loads and loads of Pokemon can stop it from getting more than one layer of spikes down, and you can straight up shut it down with...
An extraordinarily fast Taunt from Sneasel, Electrode, Floatzel, Persian, Swoobat, Serperior, or Prankster Liepard/Murkrow
A clean OHKO from anything faster. (Scarfers, Ebelt Ninjask, etc.)
Natu hangin' out.
Any sort of Magic Coat. (Kecleon, Grumpig, Girafarig, etc.)
A team that doesn't need to switch a lot
A Scolipede counter and a rapid spinner.
It's not too hard to include one of those.
That's pretty irrelevant. In your first part where you speak of Taunters, the problem isn't that those Pokemon are extremely rare and irrelevant in the current metagame, MOST OF THEM don't even run Taunt on their standard sets! Electrode, Serperior and Liepard are the only ones that actually run Taunt, and the only relevant one outside of the ladder is Serperior. And even then, it's better to Megahorn than Spikes versus it.
Ok, it is true that it gets cleanly OHKO'd or 2HKO'd by anything that is faster than it. You're not teaching me anything here. But what bothers me is that every time when someone mentions Jynx, Primeape or Scolipede, you have to mention your fucking Expert Belt Ninjask. I'm pretty sure you're one of the only persons that actually use that because : | Expert Belt 5.411% |. I'm not even going to take in account because it's so rare, and it will only be seen in the ladder, if not only versus YOU.
Natu ? [12:41] <%TIBot> #128 in NU | Usage: 0.98356% ...
That is false. I don't see it hanging around, actually last time I saw it in use was when FLCL was theorymonning about using it! It takes more than half from Megahorn from the standard Spiker, and then it is outsped and killed. Another irrelevant point..
Oh, so now we're speaking of teams, or playstyles, that don't switch out a lot?
rain.......................... 4.62801%
trickroom..................... 0.61279%
Yeah... But now I'm wrong, because Rain is actually good, and strong players actually use it! But I think you're forgetting that Scolipede gets Toxic Spikes, one of the best ways to deal with Rain Offense.
Now your Scolipede counter / check point is probably the most relevant (and the only relevant) point in your whole argument. Until you mention Rapid Spin in NU. The Rapid Spinners in this tier are awful, and the best imo would be Wartortle, which isn't that easy to incorporate in your team.