Zapdos is a viable and good mon, so if you want to have a better shot at dealing with Torn-T use it simple as that. You keep ignoring all the things it can do except from walling Torn-T and no other Pokemon in OU can. It walls Scizor, Venusaur, Breloom, Rain Volcarona, LO and NP Celebi (huge threat for many rain teams), most CM users (Latias, Jirachi, Reuniclus), has Roar, Volt Switch, and Heat Wave, in addition to Pressure and one turn healing with Roost.
Couple of things here, firstly, Venusaur beats Zapdos due to +2 Sludge Bomb KOing with SR (common battle condition?), Celebi has a decent shot if SR is up and it packs HP Ice (with NP) which I am encountering more often to nail the Dragonite people use to cockblock Celebi. That one might be a little situational tho for your taste. Volcarona wins if Rain isn't up (something id bear in mind if I was facing Zapdos), Latias actually beats Zapdos depending on the moves Zapdos runs (if Roar then Latias can outroar it, if Toxic Latias can run Sub), and Rank doesn't give a shit and will CM up as a last poke, same for Jirachi (under Rain). So be careful here as some of these senarios Zapdos doesn't always win :/ .
Is it the SR weakness? Because i can then remind you that you should use it with Rapid Spin support, and that that two out of the three best spinners in OU beat Ferrothorn, the premier hazard setter for rain teams, which almost always don't have a spinblocker too.
O.k I am v. confused. There are 2 really "good" spinners in my personal opinion: Starmie and Tentacruel, and Ferrothorn beats Starmie so yea. I guess that you are talking about Ferrothorn, but I don't really consider Forretress "beating" Ferrothorn, which can Leech Seed stall + IB + Hazard spam fairly easily, and Forry will have to cut its losses sooner or later. Sure, you can run Pain Split, but then you lose Volt Switch / Gyro Ball / HP Ice / Rapid Spin / Spikes / SR or something else im forgetting which in turn makes you vulnerable to something else. I don't consider you running a situational move such as Pain Split as "winning", can my Ferrothorn run HP Fire?
Lastly, worth noting that Forretress doesn't do that great against Rain anyway, Rain boosted sclads hurt, its hazards will be spun, and its set up fodder for a large number of things.
So tell me why is Zapdos so bad?
I will make you a deal bro, why don't you tell me the 4 attacks you are running on Zapdos, and I (and lavos and anyone else who wants too) will tell you everything you lose to. Remember, Zapdos is NOT running Thunderbolt / Heat Wave / Volt Switch / Roost / Substitute / HP Ice / HP [Anything Else] / Roar / Toxic, it must pick and choose what it runs, and therefore what it loses too. At the moment, you have a fucking 8 attack Zapdos or something, and asking us to counter it!!! Regardless, Terrakion and Tyranitar both do very well against most Zapdos sets, and I could mention many, many other pokmeon that also would win. Mamoswine I bet can Icicle Spear Zapdos to hell, (I bet Cloyster also outspeeds before a shell smash boost), Sun would shit all over you, Sand wouldn't care, and you would lose a TON of momentum against HO teams. In addition, its not THAT amazing against other special attackers. Specs Toed for example can and will still point it with high powered water attacks, Keldeo is in the same boat, Latios has a LO Psyshock and a DM (or Surf its a Rain Latios), Thundurus-T nukes the shit out of it, Rotom-W scores a 2KO with Hydro Pump under Rain etc etc. Sure, some of these senarios are situational maybe but the point is that there are MANY other special sweepers that Zapdos flat out loses too, really making it an overspecialised Tornadus-T counter. Sure I bet you could come up with a few other pokemon it beats, but you cannot hide from the facts, if Zapdos was actually good in this metagame, it would be used more, period. As it stands its only "o.k" against a few (strong) OU threats, but thats really it, don't try claiming its amazing or whatever when all it really does is beat Tornadus-T and a few other things, while losing to a shitload of other things.
Btw which set is the one that the pro-ban Torn-T side argues that breaks Torn-T?
I find it ironic that you brought this up after bringing up your 5(?) attack Zapdos but I digress...
Its true that their are 2 Tornadus-T sets, and people often bring up different ones. I, for example, am almost always discussing LO Tornadus, due to me having good experiences with it and due to the fact that it can switch attacks making it harder to deal with. Kd24 on the other hand, is discussing Specs Tornadus due to him having better experiences with it, so its personal preference. Both sets are fairly common, so when responding to the pro ban arguements, remember that there ARE 2 sets, and perhapes your counters against one set might not work against another. For example, good luck using Tyranitar for your LO Tornadus counter, which wins in various ways (nor do I need to mention them all). No-one is listing LO + Specs + Hurricane + Superpower + Focus Blast + HP Ice + Sleep Talk + Rain Dance + Taunt + U-Turn in their posts, fucking READ them and then read your own posts which contain pokemon with more than 4 attacks (I counted the Zapdos with Thunderbolt / Heat Wave / Volt Switch / Roost / Roar) before calling other people out thanks.
ANYWAY, just check out peoples posts, should be clear as to what set that are talking about :)
So the Specs set can outlast its counters? How exactly?
Prolly by spamming Hurricane and then switching? I know it beats Rotom-W this way, which everyone was hyping up as a counter so maybe u want to reword this slightly or something. IDK.
Anyway I have consumed a fair amount of alcohol so I apologise if I made any massive spelling / grammar errors or if I came across as overly hostile or something in my posts, its not my intention and ill fix it when I wake tyvm tyvm