Canoptek Spyders
SWORD: what Canoptek Spyders kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~46 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Necrons
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Canoptek Spyders is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~323 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Gives vehicles a little protection 1 of 5
- Slow and situational 3 of 5
- Nekrosor's aura fills the role better 1 of 5
- Only really good in Canoptek Court 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canoptek Spyders65 pts | C | Top 16% | Top 5% | 21of 255 |
| Triarch Stalker110 pts | C | Bottom 28% | Top 5% | 26of 255 |
| Canoptek Reanimator75 pts | A | Bottom 5% | Top 2% | 130of 255 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Canoptek Spyders, 65 pts, with 1 Automaton claws, 2 Particle beamer, in Canoptek Court. 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.
65 pts → kills ~46 pts → 71 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.
~323 pts → 497 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Necrons tier lists: Auspex Tactics (Necrons unit tier list, 11th edition) (28 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review and Competitive Innovations, 2 to 24 Oct: 6 full lists and 8 summaries) (24 Oct), Planet 40K (units used less, best detachment combinations, his 2,000-point list; combined) (26 Oct), PNW 40K (11th-edition tier list, moved by his dataslate-day stream) (1 Oct), Silvertide Tactics (every Necron unit ranked, S to D) (19 Jul), IDICBeer 40k (best Necron anti-tank units, ranked) (6 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, partly updated for the dataslate) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
255 public Necrons 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.