Deathleaper

Epic Hero · 80 pts

Lists18% · in 48 of 271 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateDeathleaper against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Deathleaper kills

Damage for its points

47pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 80 pts kill ~38 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything47bottom 34%

Hordes46bottom 30%

Line inf. ★60bottom 43%

Heavy inf.56bottom 39%

Light veh.51bottom 36%

Heavy veh.44bottom 32%

Units near it by SWORD

In Tyranids

Deathleaper47

Across the game· melee units

Daemon Prince of Nurgle with wings Death Guard · just ahead48

Deathleaper 47

Bladeguard Veteran Squad Space Marines · level with it47

SHIELD: how hard Deathleaper is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

468pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 80 pts take ~374 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points468top 5%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Tyranids

Deathleaper468

Tyrannocyte466

Norn Emissary466

Old One Eye462

Von Ryan's Leapers456

Across the game· melee units

Rukkatrukk Squigbuggies Orks · just ahead475

Deathleaper 468

Tyrannocyte Genestealer Cults · just behind466

What creators say

4 creators

Hard to pin down, and hard to target 2 of 4
A solid action unit that sets up forward 2 of 4
Good protection built in 1 of 4

Its battleshock tricks are too dicey 2 of 4
Hard to hide on its big base 1 of 4
Not worth the extra points over a Lictor 1 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Deathleaper80 pts	A	Bottom 34%	Top 5%	48of 271
The Red Terror120 pts	S	Top 27%	Bottom 36%	140of 271
Old One Eye130 pts	B	Top 34%	Top 5%	41of 271

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Deathleaper, 80 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Invasion Fleet (Hyper Adaptions: Swarming Instincts). 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.

80 pts → kills ~38 pts → 47 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.

~374 pts → 468 per 100

Top and bottom %

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

The letter

The average of 4 creators' newest Tyranids tier lists: Auspex Tactics (12 Sep), Into the Hive Mind (12 Oct), HivemindHobbies (18 Oct), Maelstrom Gaming Studios (26 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

271 public Tyranids 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.