Xenos army
Orks tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
394 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 432 public lists whose units we can read; 14 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.
Results
394winning 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
15in its 432 public listsUnits
55tiers from 9 creatorsLetter: 9 creatorsBars: our dice math
● 1 unit has changed since we rated it (new points or datasheet); its numbers are from before, until we rate the army again.
Epic Heroes6
Characters16
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Beastboss on Squigosaur140 pts · 84 listsBbottom 49%top 15%Deffkilla Wartrike80 pts · 63 listsBtop 45%top 44%Big Mek100 pts · 76 listsBbottom 28%bottom 7%Big Mek in Mega Armour90 pts · 56 listsBtop 42%bottom 21%Warboss in Mega Armour115 pts · 54 listsBbottom 33%bottom 41%Beastboss85 pts · 83 listsBbottom 46%bottom 28%Bigboss50 pts · 35 listsCtop 5%top 18%Weirdboy60 pts · 18 listsCtop 5%top 31%Runtherd10 pts · 49 listsCbottom 4%top 2%Painboy45 pts · 53 listsCtop 11%top 21%Painboss60 pts · 14 listsCtop 37%top 6%Bannernob30 pts · 10 listsDtop 7%top 17%Battleline2
Infantry8
Mounted4
Vehicles9
Transports10
Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 432 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 Orks units?
- The creators' average is S for Warboss, Ghazghkull Thraka, Gretchin. Then A: Tankbustas, Deffkoptas, Meganobz, Flash Gitz, Big Mek Dakkarig and 5 more.
- What do the letters mean?
- Each letter is a weighted average of the letters up to 9 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 Orks units do lists take most?
- Of 432 public lists: Gretchin (418), Big Mek Dakkarig (247), Warboss (239).
- Which Orks detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Wreckas: 189 of the 432 Orks 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 Orks 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.
- Auspex Tactics (meta watch: unit play rates in 25 winning lists), 24 Oct 2026
- WAAAGH Taktiks (dataslate review and meta watch of three 6-0/4-1 lists), 20 Oct 2026
- Highstakes 40K (Damian Cooper, a winning Ork player: dataslate review), 1 Oct 2026
- 40K Dirtbags (Derek, a top US Ork player: dataslate review and list idea), 4 Oct 2026
- Astrategas Wargames (Spanish datasheet tier list, two hosts), 14 Oct 2026
- Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 7 full lists and 28 summaries), 30 Oct 2026
- Art of War 40k (codex datasheet tier list), 1 Sep 2026
- Secondary Objective (codex tier list), 9 Sep 2026
- 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki), 30 Oct 2026
- Lists
- 432 public Orks 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.