Are you familiar with ligand field stabilisation energy? This approach answers your question. Interaction of the central metal ion with the surrounding ligands causes splitting of the $d$ orbitals into an essentially upper and lower energy level, the form of the splitting is rather complex and depends directly upon the symmetry point group that the ligand complex belongs to.
Either way, high spin complexes only form if the reduction in inter electron repulsion energy is greater than the energy splitting of the orbitals, with the definition of high spin being a none aufbau filling of the split orbitals. It does not make sense to describe the electronic structure of a $\ce{Zn^2+}$ ion in a complex as high or low spin, there is only one configuration available as there are 10 $d$ electrons present, and the 5 $d$ orbitals split to form 5 new orbitals of varying degeneracies (dependent upon the point group of the complex and the symmetry of the coordination environment).
$\ce{Ti^2+}$ has 2 valence d electrons available to be involved in bonding with the ligand environment, however there is no coordination environment that I am aware of (The splitting would have to be extremely small and other thermodynamic factors such as the ionic contribution to the Gibbs energy of complex formation would mean that the complex would never be observed anyway - such a low splitting would only be the result of very poor overlap which would be caused by large separation between the central ion and the ligands, resulting in a lower ionic term) that causes splitting where the magnitude of the splitting is less than the repulsion term invoked when both electrons occupy the same molecular orbital, be it degenerate or not.
The $\ce{Ti^3+}$ ion has only 1 $d$ electron, it will definitely reside in the lowest available molecular orbital. However, the first excited states, ignoring hyperfine splitting, of both titanium ions will be high spin - the magnitude of the splitting usually corresponds to wavelengths of light in the visible region of the spectrum, hence many transition metal complexes are coloured.