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Death Guard tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
Winning lists12611 top-3 finishes
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126 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 160 public lists whose units we can read; 14 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.
Results
126winning lists, Sep–Nov 20261stof 6Luźny dwumeczyk w Battle HubParagons of Putrescence and Shamblerot Vectorium1 Nov ›1stof 4MTPiPv1 "wjazd w 11 edycje jak GK banany"Paragons of Putrescence and Shamblerot Vectorium31 Oct ›3rdof 44Limoges WargamesParagons of Putrescence and Shamblerot Vectorium24 Oct ›Lists we can show: 14 ›
By month
Jun●●●●4 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+35 of 1579
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+42 of 2067
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+59 of 1901
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+54 of 1942
Nov●●●●●●●●●●●●+13 of 449
Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.
Detachments
9in its 160 public listsUnits
36tiers from 7 creatorsLetter: 7 creatorsBars: our dice math
Epic Heroes3
Characters13
Malignant Plaguecaster60 pts · 109 listsStop 3%bottom 19%Lord of Contagion110 pts · 103 listsSbottom 31%bottom 44%Biologus Putrifier60 pts · 55 listsSbottom 26%bottom 19%Noxious Blightbringer50 pts · 55 listsSbottom 19%bottom 41%
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Lord of Poxes65 pts · 10 listsAtop 20%top 25%Daemon Prince of Nurgle with wings160 pts · 24 listsAtop 23%top 7%Daemon Prince of Nurgle185 pts · 57 listsAbottom 28%top 8%Icon Bearer45 pts · 10 listsAbottom 17%top 50%Foul Blightspawn60 pts · 6 listsAtop 42%bottom 19%Lord of Virulence90 pts · 47 listsBtop 41%top 29%Great Unclean One265 pts · 49 listsBbottom 20%top 2%Tallyman60 pts · 76 listsBbottom 5%bottom 23%Plague Surgeon50 pts · 3 listsCbottom 33%bottom 41%Battleline3
Infantry3
Mounted1
Vehicles8
Transports2
Other3
Each unit: its points and how many of the 191 Space Marines-codex lists, chapters included 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 6 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 4 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov
Questions
- What are the best Death Guard units?
- The creators' average is S for Typhus, Malignant Plaguecaster, Lord of Contagion, Biologus Putrifier, Noxious Blightbringer, Defiler, Plague Marines, Blightlord Terminators, Poxwalkers. Then A: Deathshroud Terminators, Lord of Poxes, Daemon Prince of Nurgle with wings, Mortarion, Daemon Prince of Nurgle and 7 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 Death Guard units do lists take most?
- Of 160 public lists: Poxwalkers (151), Malignant Plaguecaster (109), Deathshroud Terminators (104).
- Which Death Guard detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Paragons of Putrescence: 83 of the 160 Death Guard 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 4 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 Death Guard 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.
- The Disgustingly Resilient Podcast (October board), 6 Oct 2026
- The Disgustingly Resilient Podcast (July board, daemon allies only), 28 Jul 2026
- Goonhammer (Tabletop Battles), faction review and September update, 30 Sep 2026
- GeneralJannis, 1 Oct 2026
- Grimdark Breakdown, 10 Jul 2026
- Zeeto, 14 Jun 2026
- The Yucky OutBack (three list videos), 3 Aug 2026
- Lists
- 160 public Death Guard 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.