The Changeling
SWORD: what The Changeling kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 105 pts kill ~30 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard The Changeling is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 105 pts take ~225 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- Won a game by shocking enemies 1 of 3
- Hugely overcosted for its role 1 of 3
- No sampled winning list takes it 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Changeling105 pts | D | Bottom 15% | Bottom 12% | 5of 159 |
| Kairos Fateweaver305 pts | B | Bottom 20% | Bottom 39% | 13of 159 |
| The Masque of Slaanesh95 pts | A | Bottom 9% | Bottom 8% | 9of 159 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
The Changeling, 105 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.
105 pts → kills ~30 pts → 29 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.
~225 pts → 214 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 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
159 public Chaos Daemons 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.