Both suck.
But at least the AOA variant is a far meaner hombre. Plus that whole one-eye thing is a surprisingly good look for him.
They wouldn't be able to hurt each other with their optic blasts, since they would just re-absorb them, and thus it would be a hand to hand match. Which I would have to give to the AOA cyclops. That dude was facing situations that were more dire than virtually anything the 'regular' Cyclops faced.
Anyways, both scrape aquatic lichen from the bottom of moldy aquariums, but at least the AOA Cyclops looks better doing it.