Norn Emissary

Monster · 250 pts

Lists47% · in 128 of 271 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateNorn Emissary against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Norn Emissary kills

Damage for its points

44pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 250 pts kill ~110 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything44bottom 27%

Hordes43bottom 25%

Line inf.48bottom 23%

Heavy inf.52bottom 31%

Light veh. ★53bottom 38%

Heavy veh.46bottom 36%

Units near it by SWORD

In Tyranids

Harpy45

Winged Hive Tyrant44

Norn Emissary44

Hormagaunts43

Venomthropes43

Across the game· melee units

Dark Commune Chaos Space Marines · just ahead45

Norn Emissary 44

Fateskimmer Chaos Daemons · level with it44

SHIELD: how hard Norn Emissary is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

466pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 250 pts take ~1166 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points466top 5%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Tyranids

Deathleaper468

Tyrannocyte466

Norn Emissary466

Old One Eye462

Von Ryan's Leapers456

Across the game· melee units

Deathleaper Genestealer Cults · just ahead468

Norn Emissary 466

Tyrannocyte Genestealer Cults · level with it466

What creators say

3 creators

Tournament results back it 1 of 3
Heals in Assimilation Swarm 1 of 3
Good protection and psychic guns 1 of 3
Holds a midboard objective 1 of 3

A little behind the Assimilator in melee 1 of 3

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Norn Emissary250 pts	S	Bottom 27%	Top 5%	128of 271
Norn Assimilator250 pts	S	Bottom 43%	Top 13%	90of 271
Trygon135 pts	B	Top 23%	Top 20%	48of 271

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Norn Emissary, 250 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Subterranean Assault. 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.

250 pts → kills ~110 pts → 44 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.

~1166 pts → 466 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.