Big Mek

Character · 100 pts

Why it's takenIn 62 of 358 public listsThe 23rd most-taken Orks unit · Role: Hands out ignores cover

Lists17% · in 62 of 358 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateBig Mek against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Big Mek kills

Damage for its points

40pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts kill ~40 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything40bottom 19%

Hordes33bottom 9%

Line inf.45bottom 19%

Heavy inf.55bottom 38%

Light veh. ★59top 50%

Heavy veh.59top 44%

Units near it by SWORD

In Orks

Bannernob42

Bigboss42

Morkanaut40

Big Mek40

Hunta Rig39

Across the game· melee units

Khorne Lord of Skulls Chaos Space Marines · just ahead41

Big Mek 40

Captain on Bike Space Marines · level with it40

SHIELD: how hard Big Mek is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

242pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts take ~242 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points242bottom 19%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Orks

Tankbustas269

Stompa266

Weirdboy263

Warboss258

Big Mek242

Across the game· melee units

Sanctus Genestealer Cults · just ahead243

Big Mek 242

Shield-Captain on Dawneagle Jetbike Adeptus Custodes · level with it242

What reviewers say

7 reviewers

First shooting support in any gun list 4 of 7
Mobility and extra hits for Flash Gitz 2 of 7

Price rose too soon 2 of 7
Only seen with Flash Gitz 1 of 7

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Big Mek100 pts	B	Bottom 19%	Bottom 19%	62of 358
Warboss100 pts	S	Bottom 36%	Bottom 24%	203of 358
Warboss in Mega Armour115 pts	B	Top 48%	Top 23%	31of 358

Leading a squad

Leading Boyz270 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	40	65
SHIELD	242	375

Leading Breaka Boyz220 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	40	74
SHIELD	242	270

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

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Big Mek, 100 pts, with 1 Power Klaw, 1 Traktor Blasta, in Ramship Raiders. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule 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.

100 pts → kills ~40 pts → 40 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.

~242 pts → 242 per 100

Top and bottom %

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

The letter

The average of 9 reviewers' newest Orks tier lists: Auspex Tactics (meta watch: unit play rates in 25 winning lists) (24 Oct), WAAAGH Taktiks (dataslate review and meta watch of three 6-0/4-1 lists) (20 Oct), Highstakes 40K (Damian Cooper, a winning Ork player: dataslate review) (1 Oct), 40K Dirtbags (Derek, a top US Ork player: dataslate review and list idea) (4 Oct), Astrategas Wargames (Spanish datasheet tier list, two hosts) (14 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 7 full lists and 28 summaries) (30 Oct), Art of War 40k (codex datasheet tier list) (1 Sep), Secondary Objective (codex tier list) (9 Sep), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.

Lists

358 public Orks 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.