Monolith

Vehicle · 420 pts

Why it's takenIn 12 of 320 public listsThe 40th most-taken Necrons unit

Lists4% · in 12 of 320 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateMonolith against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Monolith kills

Damage for its points

35pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 420 pts kill ~147 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything35bottom 25%

Hordes25bottom 7%

Line inf.34bottom 19%

Heavy inf.42bottom 36%

Light veh.42bottom 37%

Heavy veh. ★45bottom 48%

Units near it by SWORD

In Necrons

Trazyn the Infinite36

Transcendent C'tan35

Monolith35

Hexmark Destroyer34

C'tan Shard of the Deceiver33

Across the game· shooters

Biologus Putrifier Death Guard · just ahead36

Monolith 35

Infiltrator Squad Space Marines · level with it35

SHIELD: how hard Monolith is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

255pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 420 pts take ~1073 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points255bottom 27%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Necrons

Royal Warden270

Tesseract Vault261

Monolith255

Chronomancer240

Tomb Blades236

Across the game· shooters

Knight Castellan Imperial Knights · just ahead256

Monolith 255

Kasrkin Astra Militarum · level with it255

What creators say

6 creators

Hypercrypt and the Armoury make it work 3 of 6
Big and durable 1 of 6

Too expensive for what it removes 4 of 6
Easy to tag and block in 2 of 6
Needs a list built around it 2 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Monolith420 pts	C	Bottom 25%	Bottom 27%	12of 320
Tesseract Vault465 pts	C	Bottom 1%	Bottom 31%	16of 320
Obelisk280 pts	D	Bottom 4%	Top 16%	7of 320

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Monolith, 420 pts, with 4 Death ray, 1 Particle whip, 1 Portal of exile, in Starshatter Arsenal. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.

420 pts → kills ~147 pts → 35 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.

~1073 pts → 255 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

320 public Necrons 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.