Tyrannocyte
SWORD: what Tyrannocyte kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts kill ~26 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Tyrannocyte is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts take ~373 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- A cheap body that can score 1 of 4
- Soaks fire after delivering 1 of 4
- Units can arrive for free other ways 3 of 4
- Can't carry the units you'd want in it 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrannocyte80 pts | C | Bottom 9% | Top 5% | 1of 217 |
| Harridan610 pts | C | Bottom 9% | Bottom 3% | 0of 217 |
| Hierophant810 pts | C | Bottom 9% | Bottom 8% | 0of 217 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tyrannocyte, 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: 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 ~26 pts → 33 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.
~373 pts → 466 per 100Top 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.