Chaos army
Chaos Knights tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
Win-rate tierDStat Check · early
Winning lists71Sep–Nov 2026
Best finish6th of 28FWC n85
Sep–Nov 2026 · 77 public lists · updated 5 Nov
Results
71winning lists, Sep–Nov 20266thof 28FWC n85Houndpack Lance and Hunting WarpackSep 20 ›All 1 winning lists ›
By month
Jun–0 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+13 of 1562
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+27 of 1920
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+44 of 1816
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+26 of 1824
Nov●1 of 34
Its winning lists of all winning lists, each month; the months this page counts in bold.
Detachments
8in its 77 public listsUnits
27tiers from 7 reviewersTier: 7 reviewersBars: our dice maths
Characters15
Knight Abominant350 pts · 3 listsBbottom 43%top 45%Knight Despoiler360 pts · 3 listsBbottom 28%bottom 29%Chaos Questoris Knight Magaera375 ptsBbottom 15%bottom 23%Chaos Cerastus Knight Acheron370 ptsBbottom 8%top 43%
11 more
Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer385 pts · 6 listsCbottom 12%top 25%Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator370 pts · 1 listCbottom 41%bottom 42%Knight Rampager350 pts · 4 listsCbottom 43%top 44%Knight Tyrant390 pts · 1 listCbottom 42%bottom 44%Knight Desecrator350 pts · 6 listsCbottom 39%bottom 33%Chaos Cerastus Knight Atrapos385 pts · 1 listCbottom 32%top 48%Knight Ruinator325 pts · 4 listsCtop 44%top 34%Traitor Enforcer70 ptsCbottom 43%bottom 47%Chaos Questoris Knight Styrix365 ptsDbottom 46%bottom 27%Cultist Firebrand45 ptsDbottom 25%bottom 34%Dark Commune90 ptsDbottom 16%bottom 17%Battleline1
Infantry3
Vehicles8
B dashed: no reviewers yet, so it's our estimate. Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 77 public lists take it, Sep–Nov 2026.
Letters from reviewers; Damage and Toughness (SWORD and SHIELD on unit pages) from our own dice maths (how we score). Lists: grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0), September – November 2026. Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Sources
Reviewers 30 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 2 Nov · Points and lists 5 Nov
Questions
- What are the best Chaos Knights units?
- The reviewers' average is S for War Dog Karnivore, War Dog Executioner, War Dog Brigand. Then A: Cultist Mob, War Dog Stalker.
- What do the letters mean?
- Each letter is the average of the letters 7 reviewers gave that unit, S to D. A dashed letter means no reviewer has rated the unit yet, so it's our estimate from SWORD, SHIELD and roles, placed among the army's reviewed units.
- What do SWORD and SHIELD mean?
- How much a unit kills and how hard it is to remove, for its points. Each is 0 to 100: where it ranks among the game's units of its kind: 90 is the top 10%, 20 the bottom 20%, and 50 is typical.
- Which Chaos Knights units do lists take most?
- Of 77 public lists: War Dog Karnivore (71), War Dog Executioner (70), War Dog Brigand (64).
- Which Chaos Knights detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Hunting Warpack: 69 of the 77 Chaos Knights tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.
Sources
- Letters
- Each letter is the reviewers' average. A dashed letter means no reviewer has rated that unit yet: it's our estimate, placed by its numbers among the army's reviewed units.
- SWORD and SHIELD
- Our own dice maths, last run 2 Nov 2026. Each 0 to 100 score is where it ranks among the game's units of its kind: 90 is the top 10%, 20 the bottom 20%. How we score.
- Reviewers
- The Chaos Knights sources we read, each counted once: tier lists, reviews of their own lists and written reviews. Their tiers are their own, put on our S to D scale by us (their top tier S, and so on down); we show how many gave each and their average.
- Recon By Fire (Knight Intelligence weekly meta watches, 22 and 27 Oct, with 3 Sep's and the War Dog tactics video), 27 Oct 2026
- Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (September dataslate review; Competitive Innovations: 2 full lists and 14 summaries, 8 after the dataslate), 24 Oct 2026
- Dewgong444 (September dataslate review and his LVO Houndpack list, 4-2), 16 Oct 2026
- MevanStudios (detachment tier list, 19 Sep; knights essay 16 Oct), 19 Sep 2026
- Tyrant King (his 26-game Lords of Dread/Bastions list and a Hellhunt double battle cannon Despoiler idea), 30 Sep 2026
- Vanguard Tactics (competitive breakdown of the 1-DP detachments, preview rules before points), 15 Jun 2026
- 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th), 30 Oct 2026
- Lists
- 77 public Chaos Knights 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.