I would say it has a niche as an attacker - it's basically a Choice Scarfer in terms of sheer speed but it gets to run Life Orb. Timid Accelgor with Life Orb has the same effective Special Attack stat as Modest Choice Scarf Zapdos, while being almost as fast.
Encore is much better than you made it sound.
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