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Imperium army

Imperial Knights tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Winning lists658 top-3 finishes
Best finish1st of 10Turniej na kt w Dżingwinie

65 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 83 public lists whose units we can read; 5 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.

Results

65winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026
2ndof 16V turniej w Pegazie!Freeblade Company18 Oct ›3rdof 12Piernikowe Manewry XIIIFreeblade Company17 Oct ›8thof 34LTC #12 Tournoi Caritatif (Alsace)17 Oct ›Lists we can show: 5 ›
By month
Jun●●●●4 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+47 of 1579
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+46 of 2067
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+28 of 1901
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+28 of 1942
Nov●●●●●●●●●9 of 449

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

Detachments

8in its 83 public lists
Valourstrike Lance34 lists ›Freeblade Company29 lists ›Dominus Foebreakers27 lists ›Questor Forgepact7 lists ›Questoris Companions6 lists ›
Show 3 moreGate Warden Lance5 lists ›Throne-bonded Outriders5 lists ›Spearhead-at-Arms3 lists ›

Units

27tiers from 7 creators

Letter: 7 creatorsBars: our dice math

Epic Heroes1

Canis Rex415 pts · 21 listsBbottom 44%top 35%

Characters19

Cerastus Knight Lancer415 pts · 38 listsSbottom 24%top 20%Knight Destrier265 pts · 32 listsSbottom 42%top 48%Cerastus Knight Atrapos420 pts · 17 listsAbottom 44%top 40%Knight Castellan425 pts · 44 listsAbottom 28%top 32%
Show 15 moreKnight Crusader395 pts · 32 listsAbottom 46%top 44%Knight Paladin375 pts · 24 listsBbottom 27%top 37%Knight Errant355 pts · 24 listsBbottom 36%top 31%Knight Defender385 pts · 15 listsBbottom 28%top 23%Skitarii Marshal35 ptsBtop 13%top 37%Knight Gallant355 pts · 14 listsBbottom 46%top 28%Knight Warden365 pts · 16 listsBtop 47%top 34%Tech-Priest Manipulus60 pts · 1 listBbottom 47%top 45%Cerastus Knight Castigator380 pts · 4 listsCbottom 34%top 27%Knight Valiant390 pts · 15 listsCbottom 42%top 23%Tech-Priest Dominus60 ptsDtop 49%top 44%Knight Preceptor365 pts · 2 listsDbottom 44%top 34%Questoris Knight Styrix375 ptsDbottom 36%top 37%Questoris Knight Magaera385 ptsDbottom 10%top 37%Cerastus Knight Acheron380 pts · 1 listDbottom 10%top 27%

Battleline2

Skitarii Rangers85 pts · 5 listsAtop 27%top 27%Skitarii Vanguard85 ptsBtop 24%top 27%

Vehicles5

Armiger Warglaive140 pts · 53 listsAbottom 40%top 22%Armiger Helverin140 pts · 51 listsBbottom 24%top 18%Armiger Moirax150 pts · 1 listCbottom 39%top 25%Acastus Knight Porphyrion725 pts · 1 listCbottom 13%bottom 48%
Show 1 moreAcastus Knight Asterius785 ptsDbottom 28%bottom 40%

Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 83 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 30 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 2 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov

Questions
What are the best Imperial Knights units?
The creators' average is S for Cerastus Knight Lancer, Knight Destrier. Then A: Cerastus Knight Atrapos, Knight Castellan, Knight Crusader, Armiger Warglaive, Skitarii Rangers.
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 Imperial Knights units do lists take most?
Of 83 public lists: Armiger Warglaive (53), Armiger Helverin (51), Knight Castellan (44).
Which Imperial Knights detachment do tournament lists take most?
Valourstrike Lance: 34 of the 83 Imperial Knights 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 Imperial Knights 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
83 public Imperial Knights 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.