Neurolictor

Infantry · 80 pts

Lists57% · in 123 of 217 public lists, September – November 2026

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SWORD: what Neurolictor kills

Damage for its points

29pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 80 pts kill ~23 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything29bottom 5%

Hordes ★41bottom 23%

Line inf.37bottom 8%

Heavy inf.28bottom 4%

Light veh.24bottom 4%

Heavy veh.24bottom 6%

Units near it by SWORD

In Tyranids

Neurolictor29

Across the game· melee units

Ynnari Archon Aeldari · just ahead30

Neurolictor 29

Captain in Phobos Armour Space Marines · level with it29

SHIELD: how hard Neurolictor is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

446pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 80 pts take ~357 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points446top 8%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Tyranids

Toxicrene453

Neurolictor446

Venomthropes444

Barbgaunts440

Maleceptor439

Across the game· melee units

Commander Farsight T'au Empire · just ahead447

Neurolictor 446

Stormboyz Orks · level with it446

What reviewers say

4 reviewers

Very hard to kill for a lone character 2 of 4
Brings synapse to forward units 2 of 4
An ideal action unit 1 of 4
Sits on the expansion all game 1 of 4

Ties you to a battleshock plan 2 of 4
Hit or miss whether the test fails 1 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Neurolictor80 pts	S	Bottom 5%	Top 8%	123of 217
Tyrant Guard80 pts	B	Bottom 17%	Top 2%	41of 217
Tyranid Warriors with Melee Bio-Weapons75 pts	B	Top 6%	Top 44%	11of 217

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Neurolictor, 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: 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.

80 pts → kills ~23 pts → 29 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.

~357 pts → 446 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 reviewers' newest Tyranids tier lists: Auspex Tactics (12 Sep), Into the Hive Mind (12 Oct), HivemindHobbies (18 Oct), Maelstrom Gaming Studios (26 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.

Lists

217 public Tyranids 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.