Wave Serpent
SWORD: what Wave Serpent kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~25 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Wave Serpent is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts take ~539 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Carries Asurmen's brick 1 of 3
- Not a bad idea 1 of 3
- Overcosted for a transport 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wave Serpent115 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Top 8% | 24of 112 |
| Falcon130 pts | B | Bottom 15% | Top 45% | 35of 112 |
| Starweaver70 pts | B | Bottom 32% | Top 29% | 13of 112 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Wave Serpent, 115 pts, with 1 Shuriken Cannon, 1 Twin Bright Lance, 1 Wraithbone Hull. 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.
115 pts → kills ~25 pts → 22 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.
~539 pts → 469 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
112 public Aeldari 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 2 Nov.