Xenos army
Aeldari tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
120 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 149 public lists whose units we can read; 9 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.
Results
120winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026By month
Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.
Detachments
14in its 149 public listsUnits
76tiers from 7 creatorsLetter: 7 creatorsBars: our dice math
Epic Heroes14
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Fuegan130 pts · 51 listsBbottom 28%bottom 2%Prince Yriel95 pts · 24 listsBtop 38%bottom 6%Asurmen135 pts · 37 listsBbottom 31%bottom 2%Kharseth80 pts · 17 listsBbottom 44%bottom 3%Maugan Ra100 pts · 7 listsBtop 16%bottom 8%The Yncarne230 pts · 2 listsBbottom 42%top 47%Baharroth125 pts · 12 listsBbottom 28%bottom 3%Solitaire105 pts · 8 listsCbottom 24%bottom 2%Yvraine90 pts · 2 listsCtop 27%bottom 1%The Visarch80 ptsCtop 28%bottom 17%Characters14
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Autarch70 pts · 17 listsBtop 47%bottom 7%Autarch Wayleaper70 pts · 10 listsBtop 28%bottom 6%Spiritseer50 pts · 36 listsBbottom 2%bottom 10%Clanblade70 pts · 10 listsBbottom 24%bottom 1%Death Jester65 pts · 9 listsBbottom 46%bottom 14%Shadowseer50 pts · 8 listsCbottom 5%bottom 18%Leystalker75 pts · 6 listsDbottom 11%bottom 6%Ynnari Archon85 ptsDbottom 8%top 38%Warlock40 pts · 3 listsDbottom 28%bottom 32%Ynnari Succubus45 ptsDbottom 28%bottom 24%Battleline5
Infantry18
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Rangers60 pts · 80 listsAbottom 11%bottom 24%Troupe85 pts · 23 listsBtop 16%bottom 27%Swooping Hawks190 pts · 58 listsBtop 19%bottom 6%Dire Avengers70 pts · 42 listsBtop 32%bottom 17%Corsair Skyreavers75 pts · 21 listsBtop 37%bottom 4%Corsair Voidscarred70 pts · 9 listsBtop 1%bottom 11%Wraithguard145 pts · 36 listsBtop 42%top 12%Wraithblades140 pts · 29 listsBbottom 26%top 6%Warp Spiders105 pts · 64 listsBtop 22%bottom 10%Striking Scorpions75 pts · 31 listsCtop 37%bottom 31%Vibro Cannon Platform60 ptsCtop 19%bottom 15%D-Cannon Platform110 pts · 5 listsCbottom 24%bottom 2%Shadow Weaver Platform60 pts · 2 listsCbottom 7%bottom 15%Ynnari Incubi80 pts · 1 listDbottom 24%bottom 25%Mounted7
Monsters5
Vehicles8
Transports5
Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 149 public lists take it, Sep–Nov 2026.
Letters from the creators who know the game best; Damage and Toughness (SWORD and SHIELD on unit pages) from our own dice math (how we score). Lists: grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0), September – November 2026. Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Win-rate letter: ours, from Stat Check's published 11th-edition win rates, 2 Nov 2026. Sources
Creators 29 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 2 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov
Questions
- What are the best Aeldari units?
- The creators' average is S for Avatar of Khaine, Jain Zar. Then A: Fire Dragons, Howling Banshees, Dragon Knights, Eldrad Ulthran, Warlock Conclave and 10 more.
- What do the letters mean?
- Each letter is a weighted average of the letters up to 7 creators gave that unit, S to D: full reviews and tier lists count more than a single list.
- What do SWORD and SHIELD mean?
- Our own dice math against 100 top tournament lists. SWORD is the points of a top tournament army it removes per 100 of its own points each time it acts, picking its targets sensibly from a real list, with its melee counted by how often it gets into combat; SHIELD is how much of a top tournament army's turn it takes to wipe out 100 points of it, its own healing played between turns. Each comes with where it ranks among the game's units of its kind.
- Which Aeldari units do lists take most?
- Of 149 public lists: Avatar of Khaine (98), Howling Banshees (82), Rangers (80).
- Which Aeldari detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Armoured Warhost: 58 of the 149 Aeldari tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.
Sources
- Letters
- Each letter is a weighted average of the creators' letters: full reviews and tier lists count more than a single list. A dashed letter means no creator has rated that unit yet: it's our estimate, placed by SWORD and SHIELD only among the army's creator-rated units.
- SWORD and SHIELD
- Our own dice math, last run 2 Nov 2026. Both are shown scaled: SWORD is 0.8832 × the points it removes, SHIELD 2097.5 × the share of a turn, so a typical unit's SHIELD reads about 333. SWORD is the points of a top tournament army it removes per 100 of its own points each time it acts, picking its targets sensibly from a real list, with its melee counted by how often it gets into combat; SHIELD is how much of a top tournament army's turn it takes to wipe out 100 points of it, its own healing played between turns. Each is averaged over 100 top lists from the last three months, leaving out the most extreme tenth at each end; each is shown with where it ranks among the game's units of its kind (top 10%, bottom 20%): shooters beside shooters, melee units beside melee units, a unit built to support beside every unit. How we score.
- Creators
- The Aeldari creators who know the game best, each counted once: tier lists, reviews of their own lists and written reviews. Their tiers are their own, put on our S to D scale by us (their top tier S, and so on down); we show how many gave each and the letter they add up to.
- Proxy Hammer (post-dataslate unit tier list), 8 Oct 2026
- CraftworldEldar (meta watch of the best lists, dataslate review, starter guide), 17 Oct 2026
- Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 9 winning lists and 10 summaries, and the September balance review), 17 Oct 2026
- Battleborn 40k (dataslate points review with the channel's Aeldari player), 4 Oct 2026
- 6 Plus Plus Gaming (detachment tier list), 29 Oct 2026
- Night Geist Gaming (five of his own lists, run through a damage tool), 27 Oct 2026
- 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki), 2 Oct 2026
- Lists
- 149 public Aeldari tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch.
- Win-rate letter
- Win-rate letter: ours, from Stat Check's published 11th-edition win rates, 2 Nov 2026. Cut at S 55% and over, A 52.5%, B 49%, C 46%, D below; only the letter is ours to show, never their numbers.