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Contorted Epitome

Character · 115 pts

Why it's takenIn 16 of 191 public listsThe 26th most-taken Chaos Daemons unit

Lists8% · in 16 of 191 public lists, September – November 2026

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SWORD: what Contorted Epitome kills

Damage for its points

22pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 115 pts kill ~25 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything22bottom 1%

Hordes ★32bottom 8%

Line inf.28bottom 1%

Heavy inf.21bottom 1%

Light veh.19bottom 2%

Heavy veh.17bottom 3%

Units near it by SWORD

In Chaos Daemons

Contorted Epitome22

Across the game· melee units

Inquisitor Kroyle Agents of the Imperium · just ahead23

Contorted Epitome 22

SHIELD: how hard Contorted Epitome is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

267pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 115 pts take ~307 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points267bottom 30%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Chaos Daemons

Epidemius270

Spoilpox Scrivener268

Daemon Prince of Chaos with wings267

Contorted Epitome267

Karanak266

Across the game· melee units

Spoilpox Scrivener Chaos Daemons · just ahead268

Contorted Epitome 267

Daemon Prince of Chaos with wings Chaos Daemons · level with it267

What creators say

2 creators

Soaks damage passed to its unit 1 of 2

Its key stratagem was rewritten 1 of 2

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Contorted Epitome115 pts	A	Bottom 1%	Bottom 30%	16of 191
Tormentbringer135 pts	B	Bottom 19%	Bottom 47%	15of 191
Fateskimmer95 pts	C	Bottom 27%	Top 22%	7of 191

Leading a squad

Leading Daemonettes215 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	22	35
SHIELD	267	283

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Contorted Epitome, 115 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.

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 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.

~307 pts → 267 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' newest Chaos Daemons tier lists: FattyMatty 40k (Demonic Mondays: his own verdicts and games, Plague Legion player) (26 Oct), Barnyard Wargaming (Daemons specialist: October team-event vlog and June first impressions) (26 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 4 winning lists and 14 summaries, 2 Oct to 30 Oct) (30 Oct), 40K Fireside (team New Zealand captain, Daemons player: three WTC lists) (3 Aug), Auspex Tactics (army tier list's Daemons segment, 23 Oct, and one strong list) (23 Oct), True Daemon Lord (Daemons-only channel: Plague Legion in 11th, preview rules before points) (12 Jun), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, largely carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

191 public Chaos Daemons 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.