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Shadowseer

Character · 50 pts
Why it's takenRole: Fast and cheap
Lists– (one list or none, September – November 2026)
SimulateShadowseer against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Shadowseer kills

Damage for its points

32pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts kill ~16 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything32bottom 8%
Hordes ★47bottom 33%
Line inf.44bottom 18%
Heavy inf.37bottom 9%
Light veh.31bottom 8%
Heavy veh.18bottom 4%
Units near it by SWORD

In Drukhari

Shadowseer32

Across the game· melee units

Daemon Prince of Chaos Chaos Daemons · just ahead33
Shadowseer 32
Horticulous Slimux Chaos Daemons · level with it32

SHIELD: how hard Shadowseer is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

266pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts take ~133 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points266bottom 28%
Units near it by SHIELD

In Drukhari

Shadowseer266

Across the game· melee units

Daemon Prince of Chaos with wings Chaos Daemons · just ahead267
Shadowseer 266
Karanak Chaos Daemons · level with it266

What reviewers say

1 reviewer
  • Gives the Troupe stealth and charge speed 1 of 1

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Shadowseer50 ptsBBottom 8%Bottom 28%0of 57
Haemonculus50 ptsBTop 46%Top 44%5of 57
Succubus50 ptsABottom 40%Bottom 24%40of 57

Leading a squad

Leading Troupe135 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD3278
SHIELD266218

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

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Shadowseer, 50 pts, with 1 Miststave, 1 Neuro Disruptor, in Serpent's Brood. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities and the detachment's rule.

SWORD

Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.

50 pts → kills ~16 pts → 32 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.

~133 pts → 266 per 100

Top and bottom %

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

The letter

The average of 6 reviewers' newest Drukhari tier lists: SkaredCast (two tournament reviews, 23 Sep and 21 Oct) (21 Oct), Deploy on the Line 40K (tier list 7 Jul, Space Marine book video 23 Sep, dataslate 30 Sep) (30 Sep), BreakingHeads (podcast with Team Germany's Pau and guest Skari) (5 Sep), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 1 full list and 5 summaries) (30 Oct), Proxy Hammer (detachment review after the dataslate) (5 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (29 Jul). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.

Lists

57 public Drukhari 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.