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Biophagus

Character · 50 pts

Why it's takenIn 44 of 65 public listsThe 8th most-taken Genestealer Cults unit · Role: Fixes the break point

Lists68% · in 44 of 65 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateBiophagus against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Biophagus kills

Damage for its points

13pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts kill ~7 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything13bottom 4%

Hordes ★18bottom 3%

Line inf.18bottom 3%

Heavy inf.18bottom 5%

Light veh.5bottom 2%

Heavy veh.5bottom 2%

Units near it by SWORD

In Genestealer Cults

Achilles Ridgerunners16

Jackal Alphus15

Deathstrike14

Magus14

Biophagus13

Across the game· units

Blue Horrors Chaos Daemons · just ahead14

Biophagus 13

Tallyman Death Guard · level with it13

SHIELD: how hard Biophagus is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

130pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts take ~65 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points130bottom 1%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Genestealer Cults

Benefictus152

Primaris Psyker140

Clamavus130

Nexos130

Biophagus130

Across the game· units

Darkstrider T'au Empire · just ahead132

Biophagus 130

Clamavus Genestealer Cults · level with it130

What creators say

6 creators

Helps melee units punch through tougher marines 3 of 6
Leads several kinds of unit 1 of 6

Only really works in one detachment 2 of 6
Cute but not needed 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Biophagus50 pts	A	Bottom 4%	Bottom 1%	44of 65
Acolyte Iconward50 pts	B	Bottom 2%	Top 38%	17of 65
Clamavus50 pts	D	Bottom 1%	Bottom 1%	5of 65

Leading a squad

Leading Hybrid Metamorphs190 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	13	63
SHIELD	130	226

Leading Aberrants330 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	13	41
SHIELD	130	338

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

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Biophagus, 50 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Host of Ascension. 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 ~7 pts → 13 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.

~65 pts → 130 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' newest Genestealer Cults tier lists: Nexos Floof (dataslate review, Las Vegas Open recap, Final Day tier list) (12 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 5 full GSC lists and 8 summaries; September balance review) (30 Oct), 40k Rey (unit tier list) (11 Sep), 40k Vtuber: Christian Von Carmian (tier list stream, A to D) (27 Sep), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (London Open 4-1 with his own list; state of GSC) (28 Jul), Hero of Mathematical Wargaming (Brood Brothers Auxilia with Xenocult Masses, own list) (17 Jul), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, text largely before the dataslate) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

65 public Genestealer Cults tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.