Hierophant

Transport · 810 pts

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

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

SimulateHierophant against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Hierophant kills

Damage for its points

23pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 810 pts kill ~186 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100

Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything23bottom 9%

Hordes21bottom 5%

Line inf.26bottom 8%

Heavy inf.36bottom 20%

Light veh.32bottom 18%

Heavy veh. ★39bottom 35%

Units near it by SWORD

In Tyranids

Hierophant23

Across the game· units

Chaos Acastus Knight Asterius Chaos Knights · just ahead24

Hierophant 23

Chaos Predator Annihilator Chaos Space Marines · level with it23

SHIELD: how hard Hierophant is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

190pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 810 pts take ~1542 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points190bottom 8%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Tyranids

Winged Tyranid Prime235

Mucolid Spores207

Ripper Swarms207

Hierophant190

Harridan154

Across the game· units

Sly Marbo Astra Militarum · just ahead191

Hierophant 190

Inquisitor Agents of the Imperium · just behind189

What creators say

4 creators

A profile many armies struggle to remove 1 of 4
Wins some games in the right matchup 1 of 4

Far too many points for what it does 3 of 4
Very hard to move around terrain 3 of 4
A centrepiece, not a competitive pick 1 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Hierophant810 pts	C	Bottom 9%	Bottom 8%	0of 271
Harridan610 pts	C	Bottom 9%	Bottom 3%	0of 271
Tyrannocyte80 pts	C	Bottom 9%	Top 5%	1of 271

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Hierophant, 810 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Invasion Fleet (Hyper Adaptions: Hyper-Aggression). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, 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.

810 pts → kills ~186 pts → 23 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.

~1542 pts → 190 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 939 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.