Transcendent C'tan
SWORD: what Transcendent C'tan kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 340 pts kill ~119 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Transcendent C'tan is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 340 pts take ~1428 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Necrons
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Unmatched movement on the board 1 of 6
- Teleports around the board 1 of 6
- Outclassed by the named C'tan 4 of 6
- Only really hurts medium infantry 1 of 6
- Not in winning lists 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transcendent C'tan340 pts | C | Bottom 11% | Top 12% | 18of 255 |
| Catacomb Command Barge120 pts | C | Bottom 21% | Top 2% | 8of 255 |
| Skorpekh Lord95 pts | A | Bottom 49% | Top 10% | 128of 255 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Transcendent C'tan, 340 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Pantheon of Woe. 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.
340 pts → kills ~119 pts → 35 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.
~1428 pts → 420 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.