Sporocyst
SWORD: what Sporocyst kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts kill ~35 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Sporocyst is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts take ~414 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Some success spreading mines in Assimilation Swarm 1 of 4
- Can't hold objectives 2 of 4
- Would need to cost about half as much 1 of 4
- Can't move or deploy forward 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporocyst145 pts | C | Bottom 10% | Bottom 41% | 1of 217 |
| Trygon135 pts | B | Top 23% | Top 20% | 35of 217 |
| Exocrine135 pts | A | Top 34% | Top 19% | 52of 217 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Sporocyst, 145 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.
145 pts → kills ~35 pts → 24 per 100SHIELD
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.
~414 pts → 286 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 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.