Lion El'Jonson
SWORD: what Lion El'Jonson kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 415 pts kill ~154 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Lion El'Jonson is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 415 pts take ~1110 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Hard to kill and controls the board 5 of 7
- Taken in most competitive lists 3 of 7
- Gives his army re-rolls and a doctrine 2 of 7
- Hard for shooting armies to commit into 1 of 7
- Pricey, and buffs mostly himself 1 of 7
- Below Guilliman as an auto-include 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lion El'Jonson415 pts | A | Bottom 13% | Bottom 29% | 195of 254 |
| Azrael150 pts | A | Bottom 45% | Bottom 4% | 129of 254 |
| Belial100 pts | B | Bottom 36% | Bottom 39% | 19of 254 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lion El'Jonson, 415 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.
415 pts → kills ~154 pts → 37 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.
~1110 pts → 267 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Dark Angels tier lists: Black Crow Gaming (Lion's Den Dark Angels unit tier list, a DA GT player and his Death Guard opponent) (22 Oct), TacticalRock40K (epic heroes after the codex, 24 Oct; the Dark Angels board of 28 Jun for the other units) (24 Oct), Battleborn 40k (a Dark Angels tournament player on the new points, and three lists from one core) (27 Oct), Auspex Tactics (Dark Angels full rules review after the update, with three 3-0 lists) (5 Oct), TacticalTortoise (The Best Armies in 40k: the two undefeated Dark Angels GT lists, 12 and 19 Oct) (19 Oct), Art of War 40k (new Dark Angels units and detachments, preview points) (19 Sep), Grimdark Breakdown (the leaked Dark Angels rules, guessed points) (21 Sep). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
254 public Dark Angels 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 6 Nov.