A to A-: Genuinely surprised this guy hasn't been discussed more, Cyclizar has a similar issue to Hippowdon in that power creep makes it harder to justify. If you use Cyclizar you lose the ability to use the likes of Hydreigon, who is scarier to face. It struggles to spin because so many mons, especially physically offensive guys like Scizor, straight up take advantage of it. That said a spinner that's not completely bent by Basculegion is nice, so A- feels best for it
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The problem of Cyclizar IS NOT Hydreigon... Is more the fact that Iron Threads dropped to UU.
I have to ask you this, What is Cyclizar supposed to do in a team? I'll answer because it was a rethorical question, it's a support who combines the role of spinning, removing items and pivoting in one slot, while also outspeeding the base 100 and having regenerator to compensate its bad bulk. That's quite the useful role compression... and something Iron threads does as well.
Both outspeed Thundurus-T, both have knock off and rapid spin and both can pivot, although u-turn is more reliable than Volt switch. The difference is that Iron Treads has an steel typing and offensive pressense due to better stat distribution and ground type, as well as potential sweeping threats due to Ground + Ice + Dark coverage and rapid spin, which in general makes it a much better tera user.
On the other side of the spectrum we have arguably the best mon in UU due to having tons of roles, one of them being the pivot with regenerator, while having non-pitiful bulk akin to Cyclizar when investing fully on HP, allowing him to have offensive pressence with full special attack investment and to be treatening on offense with unreliable wind moves and focus blast. Just to prove my point let's see how they match up vs Maushold.
+1 252 Atk Technician Maushold Population Bomb (10 hits) vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tera Steel Cyclizar: 360-430 (104.6 - 125%) -- guaranteed OHKO
76 SpA Cyclizar Draco Meteor over 2 turns vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Maushold: 253-301 (87.2 - 103.7%) -- 18.8% chance to 2HKO.
+1 252 Atk Technician Maushold Population Bomb (10 hits) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Iron Treads: 220-270 (68.5 - 84.1%) --
0 Atk Iron Treads Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Maushold: 160-189 (55.3 - 65.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 Atk Technician Maushold Population Bomb (10 hits) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Steel Tornadus-Therian: 300-360 (100.3 - 120.4%) -- approx 100.0% chance of OHKO (Not guaranteed)
252 SpA Tornadus-Therian Focus Blast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Maushold: 294-346 (101.7 - 119.7%) --
That's why Cyclizar is so limited, not because what offers is bad, but because it's outclassed in many scenarios over just using Iron Treads. If you want to use Cyclizar, you need to be sure you'll get usage from Regenerator AND its support capabilities, otherwise is better to just use Treads or Tornadus-T. Normally it's used alongside Tornadus-T on balanced volturn teams as the spinner and item remover, which is a good style but is fading out of the meta as of lately in favor of offense.
In short I agree Cyclizar is more akin to A- but not for the reasons you describe.
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