Seeing how quickly you can get to a point from 1,000 is not a good way to determine if something is good or not. The best way is to face high level opponents at or near the top of the ladder multiple times vs teams that have been proven to be good and relevant in the current meta. Just because a team, pokemon or move can mow through or severely hamper one opponent, team or a couple of mons doesn't mean that it is broken. If said issue really is enough to warrant a suspect test it would show in high level play and in the opinions and thoughts of the council and other high level players along with a good chunk if not the majority of the regular playerbase. Zap Cannon is a good move, but the chance to full para is still very small (something like 25% iirc which is a lesser chance than Scald has to burn.) Outside of that paralysis is just a speed halver, which doesn't always mean something. What I am trying to say here is that you won't always have to play around it. You can let a mon get para'd and sometimes it could be a blessing since you couldn't be statused otherwise. Getting paralyzed doesn't always mean that said mon is useless, it just becomes less effective in some situations, which is exactly how status effects are supposed to work. The distribution of Zap Cannon isn't good enough to get one mon suspected or banned so why would we ban the move on its own? All it is is a high power move that gives a small chance for the target to become unable to move that turn. Don't get me wrong Zap Cannon is a very good move, but it comes nowhere close to even warranting a suspect for itself. One final note, if you are running Zap Cannon + Dynamic Punch on Mew or Deoxys-Speed then you are forsaking guaranteed damage on the levels of Focus Blast for a far lower damage output just to increase that chance by a small bit. Really the odds still aren't in your favor and it's more of a liability on your end than it is valuable.First i didnt know it was a mistake, and thats ok as marshadow is good but has counters
second it is uncompetitive. do you know what that word means? you can't play around it unless you have a ground type that none of the coverage moves hits ( i mean primal groudon is insane but thats another issue). im not saying they are broken but they are uncompetitive and/or unhealthy, whatever that word means
and no it did not take me 50 games, i went like 22-3 but it was their first time ever playing the tier, and one of them literally used a team with zap cannon dynamic punch mew and zap cannon dpunch deo d. basically a meme team and it still won because it is so bullshit. unless you run golurk you cant counter zap cannon dpunch combo. uncompetitive, not necessarily broken.