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Death Guard tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Win-rate tierBStat Check
Winning lists1043 top-3 finishes
Best finish2nd of 21Le Tournoi des Irreductibles-1d6

Sep–Nov 2026 · 119 public lists · updated 5 Nov

Results

104winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026
3rdof 44Limoges WargamesParagons of Putrescence and Shamblerot VectoriumOct 24 ›7thof 44Limoges WargamesParagons of Putrescence, Shamblerot Vectorium (Hypervirulent Strains) · Defiler, Mortarion, PoxwalkersOct 24 ›7thof 34LTC #12 Tournoi Caritatif (Alsace)Virulent VectoriumOct 17 ›All 4 winning lists ›
By month
Jun●●●●4 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+35 of 1562
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+40 of 1920
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+58 of 1816
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+46 of 1824
Nov–0 of 34

Its winning lists of all winning lists, each month; the months this page counts in bold.

Detachments

9in its 119 public lists
Paragons of Putrescence64 lists ›Shamblerot Vectorium39 lists ›Virulent Vectorium36 lists ›Champions of Contagion16 lists ›Tallyband Summoners15 lists ›
4 moreContagion Engines11 lists ›Death Lord's Chosen6 lists ›Mortarion's Hammer3 lists ›Flyblown Host1 list ›

Units

36tiers from 7 reviewers

Tier: 7 reviewersBars: our dice maths

Epic Heroes3

Typhus90 pts · 69 listsStop 2%top 38%Rotigus280 pts · 12 listsAbottom 13%top 9%Mortarion375 pts · 80 listsAbottom 24%top 37%

Characters13

Malignant Plaguecaster60 pts · 88 listsStop 4%bottom 29%Lord of Contagion110 pts · 69 listsSbottom 29%bottom 35%Biologus Putrifier60 pts · 46 listsSbottom 28%bottom 30%Noxious Blightbringer50 pts · 39 listsSbottom 5%top 48%
9 moreGreat Unclean One265 pts · 10 listsAbottom 29%top 10%Lord of Poxes65 pts · 8 listsAtop 18%top 25%Daemon Prince of Nurgle with wings160 pts · 18 listsAbottom 36%top 29%Daemon Prince of Nurgle185 pts · 45 listsAbottom 19%top 33%Icon Bearer45 pts · 7 listsAbottom 11%top 33%Foul Blightspawn60 pts · 4 listsAtop 37%bottom 30%Lord of Virulence90 pts · 34 listsBbottom 42%top 38%Tallyman60 pts · 55 listsBbottom 4%bottom 28%Plague Surgeon50 pts · 2 listsCbottom 40%top 48%

Battleline2

Plague Marines175 pts · 57 listsStop 29%top 41%Plaguebearers115 pts · 7 listsSbottom 7%top 18%

Infantry3

Blightlord Terminators370 pts · 35 listsSbottom 38%top 41%Poxwalkers65 pts · 112 listsSbottom 2%top 11%Deathshroud Terminators150 pts · 70 listsAtop 44%top 31%

Mounted1

Plague Drones110 pts · 1 listDbottom 7%top 5%

Vehicles8

Defiler300 pts · 71 listsAtop 39%bottom 16%Myphitic Blight-hauler95 pts · 22 listsAbottom 45%top 16%Plagueburst Crawler170 pts · 13 listsAbottom 30%top 35%Foetid Bloat-drone100 pts · 16 listsBbottom 37%top 20%
4 moreChaos Predator Destructor140 pts · 2 listsBbottom 25%top 44%Foetid Bloat-drone with heavy blight launcher125 pts · 24 listsBbottom 32%top 45%Helbrute105 pts · 4 listsCtop 29%top 28%Chaos Predator Annihilator130 ptsCbottom 28%top 33%

Transports2

Chaos Rhino75 pts · 83 listsAbottom 5%top 7%Chaos Land Raider220 pts · 5 listsBbottom 13%top 26%

Other4

Beasts of Nurgle70 pts · 13 listsSbottom 4%top 14%Chaos Spawn80 pts · 34 listsSbottom 19%top 13%Nurglings45 pts · 11 listsAbottom 7%top 1%Miasmic Malignifier105 ptsCbottom 2%top 10%

Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 119 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 6 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 4 Nov · Points and lists 5 Nov

Questions
What are the best Death Guard units?
The reviewers' average is S for Typhus, Malignant Plaguecaster, Lord of Contagion, Biologus Putrifier, Noxious Blightbringer, Beasts of Nurgle, Plague Marines, Chaos Spawn, Blightlord Terminators, Poxwalkers, Plaguebearers. Then A: Deathshroud Terminators, Defiler, Great Unclean One, Rotigus, Lord of Poxes and 9 more.
What do the letters mean?
Each letter is the average of the letters 7 reviewers gave that unit, S to D.
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 Death Guard units do lists take most?
Of 119 public lists: Poxwalkers (112), Malignant Plaguecaster (88), Chaos Rhino (83).
Which Death Guard detachment do tournament lists take most?
Paragons of Putrescence: 64 of the 119 Death Guard 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 4 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 Death Guard 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.A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us and we take their letters out.
Lists
119 public Death Guard 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.