Leystalker

Character · 75 pts

Why it's takenTop 44% for objective control per pointOC 2.7 per 100 pts · In 6 of 149 public lists · Role: Forward screen

Lists4% · in 6 of 149 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateLeystalker against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Leystalker kills

Damage for its points

24pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 75 pts kill ~18 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything24bottom 8%

Hordes28bottom 13%

Line inf.28bottom 10%

Heavy inf. ★29bottom 11%

Light veh.21bottom 5%

Heavy veh.18bottom 5%

Units near it by SWORD

In Aeldari

Shadow Weaver Platform26

Leystalker24

Night Spinner23

Wave Serpent22

Rangers21

Across the game· shooters

Ta'unar Supremacy Armour T'au Empire · just ahead25

Leystalker 24

Chaos Acastus Knight Asterius Chaos Knights · level with it24

SHIELD: how hard Leystalker is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

197pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 75 pts take ~148 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points197bottom 10%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Aeldari

Autarch199

Warp Spiders198

Leystalker197

Jain Zar196

Autarch Wayleaper193

Across the game· shooters

Warp Spiders Aeldari · just ahead198

Leystalker 197

Kelermorph Genestealer Cults · just behind195

What creators say

3 creators

Lone operatives matter less in 11th 1 of 3
The Death Jester does it cheaper 1 of 3
Does very little damage 1 of 3
Battleshock tricks are weak now 1 of 3

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Leystalker75 pts	D	Bottom 8%	Bottom 10%	6of 149
Death Jester65 pts	B	Bottom 32%	Bottom 31%	9of 149
Farseer60 pts	A	Bottom 28%	Bottom 13%	46of 149

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Leystalker, 75 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities.

SWORD

Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.

75 pts → kills ~18 pts → 24 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~148 pts → 197 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' newest Aeldari tier lists: Proxy Hammer (post-dataslate unit tier list) (8 Oct), CraftworldEldar (meta watch of the best lists, dataslate review, starter guide) (17 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 9 winning lists and 10 summaries, and the September balance review) (17 Oct), Battleborn 40k (dataslate points review with the channel's Aeldari player) (4 Oct), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (detachment tier list) (29 Oct), Night Geist Gaming (five of his own lists, run through a damage tool) (27 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki) (2 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

149 public Aeldari 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. Numbers run 2 Nov.