Trajann Valoris
SWORD: what Trajann Valoris kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 265 pts kill ~135 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adeptus Custodes
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Trajann Valoris is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 265 pts take ~605 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Adeptus Custodes
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
8 reviewers- Nearly primarch-tough, with real damage 5 of 8
- Warlord generating extra command points, even from reserve 4 of 8
- Re-rolls smooth out a small army's dice 4 of 8
- Takes on the strengths of the unit he joins 4 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trajann Valoris265 pts | S | Bottom 42% | Bottom 14% | 106of 271 |
| Allarus Custodians270 pts | A | Top 46% | Bottom 42% | 243of 271 |
| Venatari with Verutum Lances270 pts | A | Bottom 48% | Bottom 22% | 34of 271 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 51 | 36 |
| SHIELD | 228 | 248 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 51 | 37 |
| SHIELD | 228 | 230 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Trajann Valoris, 265 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Auric Champions. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule and the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
265 pts → kills ~135 pts → 51 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~605 pts → 228 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest Adeptus Custodes tier lists: Auspex Tactics (codex unit tier list, five tiers with tier 2 split) (21 Oct), Art of War 40k (every datasheet in the new codex ranked, with a Custodes specialist) (13 Oct), Black Crow Gaming with 6 Plus Plus Gaming (units tier review, two competitive Custodes and teams players) (28 Oct), Deploy on the Line 40K (first codex tier list, from his own games; characters rated against each other) (7 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (codex review, roundtable, Competitive Innovations: 2 new-codex winning lists and 2 summaries) (30 Oct), TacticalTortoise 40k (meta watch of the first three X-1 new-codex lists) (27 Oct), Night Geist Gaming (one own Take and Hold list on preview points, explained unit by unit) (11 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, updated for the codex) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
271 public Adeptus Custodes tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 4 Nov.