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Chaos Knights tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Winning lists797 top-3 finishes
Best finish1st of 8"Ze mną nie zagrasz?!" ed02 se02

79 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 94 public lists whose units we can read; 7 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.

Results

79winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026
1stof 8"Ze mną nie zagrasz?!" ed02 se02Lords of Dread7 Nov ›3rdof 16V turniej w Pegazie!Houndpack Lance and Iconoclast Fiefdom18 Oct ›2ndof 8Upadek Mon'keigh 40k w PandemoniumHoundpack Lance and Hunting Warpack10 Oct ›Lists we can show: 7 ›
By month
Jun–0 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+14 of 1579
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+28 of 2067
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+47 of 1901
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+29 of 1942
Nov●●●3 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 94 public lists
Houndpack Lance77 lists ›Hunting Warpack76 lists ›Iconoclast Fiefdom8 lists ›Traitoris Lance5 lists ›Lords of Dread5 lists ›
Show 3 moreBastions of Tyranny4 lists ›Infernal Lance3 lists ›Helhunt Lance2 lists ›

Units

27tiers from 7 creators

Letter: 7 creatorsBars: our dice math

Characters15

Traitor Enforcer70 ptsBbottom 12%bottom 35%Knight Abominant350 pts · 6 listsBtop 41%top 36%Knight Despoiler360 pts · 4 listsBtop 42%top 37%Chaos Cerastus Knight Acheron370 ptsBbottom 14%top 28%
Show 11 moreChaos Questoris Knight Magaera375 ptsBbottom 14%top 39%Dark Commune90 ptsBbottom 8%bottom 6%Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer385 pts · 7 listsCbottom 16%top 18%Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator370 pts · 1 listCbottom 42%top 27%Knight Rampager350 pts · 8 listsCtop 41%top 31%Knight Tyrant390 pts · 4 listsCbottom 33%top 28%Knight Desecrator350 pts · 9 listsCbottom 38%top 34%Chaos Cerastus Knight Atrapos385 pts · 2 listsCbottom 44%top 37%Knight Ruinator325 pts · 9 listsCtop 23%top 28%Cultist Firebrand45 ptsDbottom 16%bottom 8%Chaos Questoris Knight Styrix365 ptsDbottom 40%top 39%

Battleline1

Cultist Mob50 pts · 10 listsSbottom 6%top 27%

Infantry3

Accursed Cultists90 pts · 1 listBbottom 24%top 44%Traitor Guardsmen Squad65 pts · 1 listBbottom 11%top 35%Fellgor Beastmen60 pts · 1 listCbottom 28%top 19%

Vehicles8

War Dog Karnivore145 pts · 87 listsStop 20%top 26%War Dog Executioner130 pts · 81 listsStop 34%top 18%War Dog Brigand135 pts · 77 listsSbottom 46%top 23%War Dog Stalker135 pts · 67 listsAtop 17%top 20%
Show 4 moreChaos Acastus Knight Asterius785 ptsBbottom 32%bottom 36%War Dog Huntsman135 pts · 15 listsCtop 35%top 23%Chaos Acastus Knight Porphyrion725 ptsCbottom 13%bottom 44%War Dog Moirax150 ptsDtop 47%top 32%

Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 94 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 Chaos Knights units?
The creators' average is S for War Dog Karnivore, War Dog Executioner, Cultist Mob, War Dog Brigand. Then A: War Dog Stalker.
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 Chaos Knights units do lists take most?
Of 94 public lists: War Dog Karnivore (87), War Dog Executioner (81), War Dog Brigand (77).
Which Chaos Knights detachment do tournament lists take most?
Houndpack Lance: 77 of the 94 Chaos 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 Chaos 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
94 public Chaos 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.