What are your thoughts on rain in this meta? Things like favored rain sweepers or particular backbones for the offense to fall back on can go into this answer.
My issue with Rain is that typically it is employed as an anti-offense archetype. Right now, it really struggles into some offensive staples like Rillaboom (and Rillaboom teams as an extension of this as Sneasler can do well) and Tera Normal Dragonite. Even Aurora Veil teams with Hail can minimize the effect Rain can have.
I think that dedicated Rain teams are less effective now than one would like, but I do think things you would see in Rain like Ogerpon-Wellspring, Zapdos/Thundurus-T, and Greninja can function well standalone. My main issue is Pelipper is a very limited slot, Basculegion is very hit-or-miss, and you are so condensed defensively that you have to commit to hard offense on Rain teams despite not having all six slots to dedicate pressure and metagame coverage.
What is the best counterplay to webs in your opinion?
Unironically running a ton of Pokemon either immune, with Heavy Duty Boots, or that do not mind Sticky Webs. I have teams with 4-5 immune and 1-2 Pokemon that are slow to begin with and these teams tend to be playing up 6-5 or 6-5.5 from the jump, which is a huge benefit to them.
Yes, the "sexy" picks are things like Cinderace, Heavy Duty Boots Great Tusk with Rapid Spin, or Hatterene. Cinderace I will give you, but I find structures with it to be limited to a degree. Tusk is not a shoe-in though as it has to time things well vs Ribombee and Air Balloon Gholdengo without allowing too many free turns to Manaphy. Same for Hatterene: it is 3HKO'd by Ribombee and can potentially be abusd by teammates if the Webs team is well-constructed. I actually like Hatterene vs Spikes way more than Webs because of this.
Balance or bulky-o with hazard minimizing tactics like Boots spam is a great pick, opposing offense with Cinderace or a ton of priority can be well-off, and then you just have defensive teams that do not really care as well potentially.
Are we going to have more suspects for the DLC 1 metagame after the Gliscor test has concluded?
Answered above, but to reiterate: we intend to come back in a week once the metagame is settled from such a huge ban and potentially have a survey. We are running up against it timeline wise with DLC2, but I am consistent in saying we will do the best we can for this metagame.