Apollon Nutrition is the company you buy from when you want the pre-workout to be an event. Hooligan, Assassin, Bloodsport — the catalogue reads like a list of things a sensible person would decline. A new Apollon tub built around 200 mg of caffeine is, on its own, the story.
Cyclone arrived earlier this month. Everything below comes from Apollon’s published product page as of this writing, and from Stack3d’s launch coverage for servings and flavors. The tub in your hand outranks any web page.
The published panel
The product page displays no supplement facts image and no directions. Take the serving from the label on the tub, and do not go past it.
What is in the scoop
Eleven ingredients, every one carrying a stated dose. No proprietary blend, no “energy matrix”, nothing hiding behind a total. In an aisle where the pump component is routinely the least-disclosed line, an open label is the first thing worth crediting.
Creatine at 5,000 mg is the headline: the amount the literature is built around, sitting in a pre-workout at a moment when the category has been going the other way — the 2026 SuperHuman Jacked reformulation took 5 g of creatine out of the tub and left the price where it was. Apollon has put it back. Whether you want it here rather than in a plain tub of monohydrate is a question the arithmetic answers later.
Betaine at 2,500 mg is a real dose rather than a dusting, and CDP choline at 500 mg is disclosed and branded.
What is not in it
Here is the part that should stop you: there is no citrulline. No arginine, no nitrate source, no beta-alanine either.
For a formula the brand calls comprehensive, the entire nitric-oxide side of a pre-workout is absent. PeakATP at 450 mg is the closest thing on the panel to a blood-flow ingredient, doing that job alone. If you buy pre-workout for the pump — and many do — Cyclone does not address it. The missing beta-alanine is defensible: the tingle is a sensation, not a result. The missing citrulline is not.
The tyrosine number
5,000 mg of L-tyrosine is a very large figure for this aisle — several times what most pre-workout panels list, the 2026 SuperHuman Jacked tub at 1 g among them. Apollon files it under a “clinically dosed” heading: the brand’s characterisation, not a citation, and the page points to no work behind it. Tyrosine’s acute case for training is thinner than creatine’s, and a big number is not a well-evidenced one. Lion’s mane at 1 g and CoQ10 at 100 mg sit in the same bracket.
The stimulant question, in reverse
Most reviews here have to warn readers about a caffeine number. This one does not. 200 mg is roughly a strong coffee, and from a brand whose reputation runs the other way that is the most surprising decision on the panel. Stack3d puts Performax Labs’ HyperBlaze, launched the same month, at 475 mg — more than twice as much, and a reminder of how wide this category runs.
Restraint is not irrelevance. Caffeine tolerance varies enormously between people, 200 mg lands on top of whatever you have already had, and stacking stimulants across products is where people get hurt. No label can see your running total. These are supplements: not evaluated by the FDA, not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and nothing here is medical advice.
What it costs
$54.99 across 20 servings is $2.75 a scoop, on the servings figure Stack3d publishes. Top of the market, and the value case has a hole: 5 g of that scoop is creatine, among the cheapest material in this aisle whatever form it takes. Which form, neither source says. The page calls it Purest Creatine™ and stops — no monohydrate, no HCl, no anything. On a panel this forthcoming about milligrams, a strange place to go quiet.
The certification line matters too. A “3rd Party Lab Tested” badge with no certifier named, no certificate shown and no lot to look up is a marketing phrase, not a check anyone can run — and even a named mark is only ever a claim about a specific batch.
Pros and cons
Verdict
Cyclone is better behaved than its brand name suggests and more honest than most labels beside it. On disclosure alone it sits near the top of the shelf.
On what $2.75 buys, it is narrower. If you want focus, creatine and a manageable caffeine dose in one scoop, this does that cleanly and tells you exactly what it is doing. If you want the pump, you are buying citrulline separately anyway — and once you are, the case for paying Apollon’s price to carry your creatine gets weaker.