Seriously? Rapid spin, defog, magic bounce, flying types. Sticky web has a lot of counters. If you don't build your team expecting a hazard to eventually appear then we should just ban all the hazards. On top of that shuckle is hard countered by taunt. If sticky web is your problem then point the ban topic at sticky web, and even then, if people are running teams with no defog/rapid spin users when there are tons of pokemon with hazard capacity, then does it really fall to that move to getting banned or is it that people want to run straight sweeper teams and get annoyed that hazards stop them. I dunno, if you are going to ban sticky web you might as well ban all other hazards.
Do you actually play the tier ?
Because if you do, you will know that SW teams are incredibly strong atm thanks to the really good abusers( Xurkitree and Magearna for example).
Rapid Spin users: Excadrill
Taunt users: Tapu Lele Terrakion Zeraora
Defog users: Mew Zapdos Lunala Noivern Mandibuzz Landorus Tapu Koko ArceusGround ArceusFairy Gliscor Skarmory Ho-oh
Magic bounce users: Shuckle always has mold breaker, so it is irrelevant.
Flying type: Ho-oh Mandibuzz Zapdos Noivern Giratina-Origin Rayquaza Skarmory Landorus Shaymin-Sky Gliscor
First Point:
Saying that people loses against SW because they are not prepared against it is a mistake.
There is not a lot of taunt users in the metagame, so when you confront one of them, your lead will be different to annoy your opponent. Moreover, thanks to his bulk, shuckle is able to come in the terrain and set SW. Thanks to toxik, it can annoy the defogger if he wants to defog and with encore, it can stop the setup of the opponent.
To conclude, thanks to his bulk and his movepool, it is able to setup SW(+SR sometimes) against the majority of the teams.
Once he made that, you can abuse of the sticky web with the abusers.
For example, how many pokemon can check Xurkitree with a +3 and SW ? Not a lot, and especially no defoggers.
As like as Magearna doesn't a lot of counters because his nuke at +1 kills a lot of stallers ...
The abusers of SW are too powerful for the tier. And it is not the fault of the abusers, it is the fault of Shuckle.
If we ban Xurkitree, then another pokemon will replace him, as like as Landorus replaces Landorus-Therian.
"Webs were majorly influential in the last 3 bans this meta had " like Mark said.
Now, you can say that we need to ban SW and not Shuckle. That is my second point.
Second Point:
If we ban SW, then we will remove a kind of team, as like as if we ban Blissey, we will remove a kind of team.
This kind of team are too strong in the metagame. That's why Council of MnM wants to nerf it. Not to ban it, just nerf it.
Moreover, if we ban SW, we will remove the entire viability of Shuckle because he's viable only because of SW. Then, the ban of SW "implies" the "ban of Shuckle".
So, SW ban is a greater restriction than the ban of Shuckle.
Otherwise, if we ban Shuckle, then Araquanid of Ribombee will "replace" Shuckle as setter of SW and this kind of team will be possible.
It will be worse because: -Ribombee doesn't have SR, is not so fast, doesn't have a good bulk and a good movepool.
- Araquanid doesn't have SR, is slow, doesn't have the same physical bulk and has an horrible movepool.
NOT FINISH MY POST AGAIN , I EDIT NOW, FINISH SOON, SMOGON IS BADLY DESIGNED
Edit: I really like the discussion around the metagame in the MnM community