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Emperor's Children tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Winning lists1507 top-3 finishes
Best finish1st of 14Zagrajmy Turniej VII

150 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 180 public lists whose units we can read; 13 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.

Results

150winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026
3rdof 14Turniej SzczecinElegant Brutes and Rapid Evisceration31 Oct ›7thof 28FWC n84Coterie of the Conceited31 Oct ›8thof 44Limoges Wargames24 Oct ›Lists we can show: 13 ›
By month
Jun●●●●●●●●●●10 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+85 of 1579
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+123 of 2067
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+79 of 1901
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+61 of 1942
Nov●●●●●●●●●●10 of 449

Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.

Detachments

10in its 180 public lists
Coterie of the Conceited77 lists ›Court of the Phoenician35 lists ›Spectacle of Slaughter34 lists ›Frenzied Host33 lists ›Peerless Bladesmen23 lists ›
Show 5 moreCarnival of Excess20 lists ›Slaanesh's Chosen11 lists ›Mercurial Host10 lists ›Elegant Brutes9 lists ›Rapid Evisceration4 lists ›

Units

23tiers from 7 creators

Letter: 7 creatorsBars: our dice math

Epic Heroes3

Lucius the Eternal130 pts · 128 listsAtop 34%top 24%Fulgrim340 pts · 44 listsBtop 13%top 29%Shalaxi Helbane315 pts · 16 listsCtop 5%top 33%

Characters5

Lord Exultant95 pts · 173 listsSbottom 44%bottom 13%Daemon Prince of Slaanesh with Wings205 pts · 76 listsBtop 38%top 27%Lord Kakophonist70 pts · 27 listsBtop 47%top 34%Daemon Prince of Slaanesh165 pts · 9 listsCbottom 37%top 24%
Show 1 moreSorcerer55 pts · 8 listsCtop 14%bottom 14%

Battleline3

Infractors95 pts · 175 listsStop 16%bottom 44%Tormentors85 pts · 163 listsStop 41%top 44%Daemonettes100 pts · 23 listsBbottom 44%bottom 36%

Infantry3

Flawless Blades95 pts · 156 listsStop 1%bottom 43%Noise Marines160 pts · 53 listsBtop 9%top 50%Chaos Terminators155 pts · 19 listsCtop 19%top 9%

Mounted1

Seekers85 pts · 8 listsBbottom 35%bottom 30%

Vehicles3

Defiler300 pts · 92 listsStop 3%bottom 40%Maulerfiend125 pts · 9 listsDtop 7%top 14%Heldrake175 ptsDbottom 39%bottom 34%

Transports2

Chaos Rhino65 pts · 92 listsBbottom 13%top 5%Chaos Land Raider220 pts · 5 listsCbottom 39%top 13%

Other2

Fiends90 pts · 24 listsBtop 23%top 45%Chaos Spawn60 pts · 2 listsCbottom 26%top 14%

Units from other armies it can take

From Chaos Daemons1

Keeper of Secrets265 pts · 22 listsBtop 38%top 11%

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 30 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 2 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov

Questions
What are the best Emperor's Children units?
The creators' average is S for Defiler, Infractors, Tormentors, Lord Exultant, Flawless Blades. Then A: Lucius the Eternal.
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 Emperor's Children units do lists take most?
Of 180 public lists: Infractors (175), Lord Exultant (173), Tormentors (163).
Which Emperor's Children detachment do tournament lists take most?
Coterie of the Conceited: 77 of the 180 Emperor's Children 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 Emperor's Children 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.Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
180 public Emperor's Children 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.