OBJECTIONA 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
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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to B-: There is really just not much of a reason to use this. The point has been brought up a million times but trapping Steel-types (Tinkaton) just isn’t valuable for the top tiers and it’s better to just use another Pokémon that provides more utility. Tinkaton taking a large decline with Iron Treads being the main Steel-type kicks Magnezone down a lot as well, not to mention Gastrodon and Treads are the premier Ground-type options rather than ones Magnezone matches up better against like Donphan and Hippowdon. If you want to use a Weavile or Regidrago or something like that, Magnezone is a good option to use, but outside of that Magnezone doesn’t shine enough to avoid a niche ranking.
to C+: After the rise of Meowscarada this Pokémon is just not good and has little reason to be used. The most common removal option and Pokémon in tournament play, Iron Treads, shuts you down with its typing and power, keeping Overqwil from acting as a reliable Spikes user. It doesn't check much apart from a few stuff like Breloom, Iron Leaves, and Zarude but one just clicks U-turn and the other two take advantage of the lack of recovery Overqwil has. In general, a few good matchups still fail to make up the flaws of Overqwil and it suffers a pretty hard drop to C+.
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but none had the support to rise and the latter two had a near-unanimous consensus to stay in their current ranks. Like other options voted on, these will be taken off the slate, so keep this result in mind. The full update with the rest of the current nominations and future nominations will likely be in September after the tier shifts but it depends on what developments DLC provides by then if there’s new moves or something like that. We all appreciate your posts and thank you for your contributions to this thread!
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with static para slowing it down. Speaking of static, while it does take a sizable amount of damage from a some of the things it comes in on, the contact moves hitting it give a good way to fish for paralysis on the previously stated mons.
, i havent experimented with this much, but it feels like it would like having things slowed and really loves things that punish u turn, which bellibolt does by just existing.
but im getting there) which means volt is easier to click.
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but i might be crazy)