Assassin Pre Workout Review [V9] + Best Deal 2026

Written by TJ, Fitness Deal News | 10+ Years of Reviewing Supplements

Assassin V9 Pre Workout by Apollon Nutrition has landed in my bunker for review.

I have been getting messages on every platform that exists asking where I went.

Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, WeChat, and I am fairly sure someone tried Starlink.

The short answer is that this is not my day job. I have a couple of other businesses running and they took over for seven or eight months.

But the new Assassin came out, and that is worth coming back for.

This tub is already almost empty, so I have put real time into it. Let me take you through the label, then tell you exactly what it does.

The Label: What’s Theoretically Inside

First thing to understand about Apollon Nutrition: they rebuild Assassin roughly every 18 months, and every single version has felt different from the last.

Version one, version five, version whatever this one is, all different animals.

The fifth or sixth generation is the famous one, the one that could kill an elephant. Some versions leaned euphoric. Some leaned sense of urgency. Some just slapped you around.

So if you loved a previous Assassin, that tells you almost nothing about this one.

A full scoop here is 38 grams. There are protein powders with smaller scoops than this. Big scoop, big brand, big company. These doses are for the full scoop:

Pump and Performance

• L-Citrulline (10,000 mg): Ten grams. Most pre-workouts give you six and call it a day. This is the nitric oxide engine and the reason you do not need to stack a pump formula on top of this tub.
• Beta-Alanine (6,400 mg): Exactly double the standard 3,200 mg dose. Buffers lactic acid for endurance, but let’s be honest about why it is in here, and depending on ingredient quality this should mean tingling galore.
• Betaine Anhydrous: For raw power output and strength across working sets. Also supports cell volumization, so it feeds the pump side too.
• Nitrosigine (inositol-stabilized arginine silicate): A pump ingredient that works on a different pathway than citrulline, so the two stack rather than overlap. Also has some research behind it for cognitive performance.

Focus and Mood

• Alpha-GPC (1,000 mg): A full gram. Premium choline source that crosses the blood-brain barrier and supports acetylcholine production for focus and mind-muscle connection. Most brands throw in 150 or 300 mg. This is a real dose.
• L-Tyrosine: Dopamine and norepinephrine precursor. This is where mental drive comes from, particularly when you are under physical stress.
• PEA / Phenylethylamine (750 mg): Fast-hitting mood elevation. Comes on quickly and clears quickly, which is part of why this formula arrives all at once.
• NeuroPEA (600 mg): A second, longer-acting PEA derivative layered on top of the standard PEA. Between the two you are looking at over 1.3 grams of mood ingredients.

The Stim Package

• Caffeine Anhydrous (300 mg): The base layer. Fast absorbing, standard, does what it does.
• Caffeine Citrate (200 mg): The fastest absorbing form of caffeine there is. This is a big part of why time to stimulation on this tub is five minutes instead of twenty.
• Infinergy (dicaffeine malate): The slow release layer. Buffered caffeine that comes on gentler and stays longer, which is why this holds a flat line for 90 minutes instead of spiking and dropping.
• Total caffeine: roughly 600 mg. Three forms, three different release curves, stacked deliberately.
• Alpha Yohimbine (2.5 mg): Sharpens everything and adds urgency. This is also the single ingredient in any pre-workout that, dosed wrong, will genuinely make you feel like you are dying. 2.5 mg is higher than I usually like to see.

600 milligrams of caffeine. Think about that. Six espressos. If that number scares you, you are being reasonable. If it does not scare you at all, you are out of your mind. It is probably not going to kill you, but the asterisk applies: it might. If you are worried, talk to your doctor, not to me.

The other number to watch is the alpha yohimbine at 2.5 mg. Alpha yohimbine is the one ingredient that in excess capacity will genuinely make you feel like you are dying. 2.5 mg is higher than I usually like to see.

And 6.4 grams of beta-alanine is twice what you are used to. Depending on ingredient quality and how it all comes together, that should mean tingling galore.

Labels are just labels, and you never know how any of it actually comes together. But Apollon almost certainly puts this stuff in the tub. Let’s see what it does.

Design is clean, by the way. I like it. Though I still cannot tell if that is a male assassin or a female assassin.

My Experience: Does Assassin V9 Deliver?

1. Time to Stimulation: Five Minutes

This is the headline. On a full scoop, this thing smacks you right out of the gate. Time to stimulation is five minutes. Not fifteen. Five.

The tingling comes on all over the body, you feel something rising, and the energy starts kicking almost immediately. That is very unusual. If you have a long drive to the gym, take this in the parking lot, not at home.

2. Everything Arrives At Once

Some pre-workouts have a storyline. Energy comes first, then you start training, then the pumps arrive, then the focus creeps in. Assassin does not do that. Everything shows up together and peaks around 15 to 20 minutes in.

Burst of energy, tingling to the extreme, head buzz, mental alertness, all at the same time. You are just in it.

The tingling sticks around for 40 to 45 minutes. If you do not like tingles you will be mildly annoyed for the first 10 or 15 minutes before it settles. I like the tingling. It is part of the experience.

3. It Does Not Fade

Here is what impressed me most. You can be in the gym for an hour and a half and this is still running at the same level. Completely consistent, no drop off, no crash mid-session.

That also means this is not a 9 pm pre-workout. Take it late and you will be awake until 4 am. Plan accordingly.

4. The Alpha Yohimbine Question

Despite 2.5 mg on the label, this never crosses into survival mode. You feel the alpha yohimbine, you know it is there, but it does not push you into that “I am going to die” territory. It just ties the whole formula together.

For me that is exactly right.

5. The Character of It

Think heavy metal music. Intense, pumping, locked in and focused. The mood elevation is productive and motivational rather than euphoric. I was not dancing with this one. There was no music-sounds-louder moment. This is a get it done pre-workout.

6. Pumps

Awesome pumps, and no surprise with 10 grams of citrulline plus Nitrosigine and everything else in there. You do not need to add a pump formula to this. Save your money.

7. Flavor

Kiwi grape. Apollon is not famous for flavors, but this one is fine. Not offensive. You take it, no drama, no fear.

On a scale of one to ten: you are about to put 600 mg of caffeine and 6.4 grams of beta-alanine into your body and you want to talk about flavor. Move on.

Half Scoop vs Full Scoop

Because this is not a cheap tub and the label is insane, I ran half scoops too.

Half a scoop is an awesome pre-workout. Everything I just described, reduced by about 25 percent. Still very intense, focus is still excellent, pumps are all there, tingling is absolutely still present. Because every dose in here is roughly double what it should be, half a scoop is still a fully loaded pre-workout by normal standards.

One real difference: on half a scoop it starts kicking at 15 to 20 minutes and peaks around the half hour mark, rather than peaking at 15 minutes.

That is it. That is the whole difference.

If you are newer to this, or you are stim sensitive, or you just want to double the value out of an expensive tub, run half scoops. I have serious tolerance and have been doing this a long time, so I go full. You do what you want.

The Final Verdict

Super intense, hits right out of the gate, extremely productive, in the zone, with a great combination of focus, alertness, and energy, and it lasts a very long time. This is one of those formulas where everything comes together at once and slaps you the moment it lands.

Who this is for: experienced stim junkies who want immediate onset and a long consistent ride, and who like heavy metal energy rather than euphoric dancing energy.

Who this is not for: anyone caffeine sensitive, anyone training in the evening, and anyone new to hardcore pre-workouts unless you are starting at half a scoop.

The money tip: half a scoop makes this genuinely cost effective and still delivers most of the experience.

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