Harpy

Monster · 185 pts

Why it's takenTaken for what the dice don't measure

Lists– (one list or none, September – November 2026)

SimulateHarpy against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Harpy kills

Damage for its points

45pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 185 pts kill ~83 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything45bottom 29%

Hordes ★54bottom 44%

Line inf.53bottom 31%

Heavy inf.47bottom 23%

Light veh.45bottom 26%

Heavy veh.51bottom 44%

Units near it by SWORD

In Tyranids

Harpy45

Across the game· melee units

Chaos Questoris Knight Styrix Chaos Knights · just ahead46

Harpy 45

Dark Apostle Chaos Space Marines · level with it45

SHIELD: how hard Harpy is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

282pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 185 pts take ~521 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points282bottom 39%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Tyranids

Sporocyst286

Hive Tyrant285

Harpy282

Raveners280

The Red Terror278

Across the game· melee units

Syll'esske Chaos Daemons · just ahead283

Harpy 282

Custodian Guard Sodality Adeptus Custodes · level with it282

What creators say

4 creators

Aircraft are weak this edition 4 of 4
Can't hold objectives 2 of 4
Cheaper units do its action role 1 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Harpy185 pts	D	Bottom 29%	Bottom 39%	0of 271
Norn Assimilator250 pts	S	Bottom 43%	Top 13%	90of 271
Norn Emissary250 pts	S	Bottom 27%	Top 5%	128of 271

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Harpy, 185 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.

185 pts → kills ~83 pts → 45 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.

~521 pts → 282 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.