Talonflame only has 80 attack and loses half it's health to rocks. Let me guess, you're unaware about how bans are based on community votes and that you need a certain of points to be allowed to vote in the first place
Yes it's based on having a certain rank and votes are accrued for a suspect test. It either is left alone, gets moved down or moved up.
Before there used to be a Banned tier but since the dawn of Mega Rayquaza there is a Anything Goes tier therefore nothing is actually banned.
And the tiers are predominately based on usage. As far as Smogon is concerned anyway.
If I use Smogon for anything it is for building Pokemon since I find their builds as a good guideline.
It got to the point where there were Pokemon I liked just couldn't perform because hazards or a Pokemon like Ninjask using a specific strategy either had to be shut down a certain way or it was over and a team just gets sweeped when it Baton'd out.
If it wasn't taunted immediately and taken out by time it came back out you would need to set up rocks or outplay your opponent so it was the last thing you needed to kill.
Since I prefer the straight attack path I always didn't perform well.
More defensive strategies seemed to work out better.
I will say though I do enjoy a good trick room fight.