Why is Lithium best reducing agent?

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Why is Lithium the best reducing agent?

I was trying to reason this out, but if you look at Ionization energies, it seems as though Cs would lose electrons easier than Lithium and thus oxidize things better...

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks in advance.
 
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