Winged Tyranid Prime
SWORD: what Winged Tyranid Prime kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~27 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Winged Tyranid Prime is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~153 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Tyranids
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
4 creators- Gives melee Warriors a key keyword 4 of 4
- Heavily outclassed by the Lash Whip Prime 4 of 4
- Little damage of its own 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winged Tyranid Prime65 pts | C | Bottom 21% | Bottom 16% | 10of 271 |
| Parasite of Mortrex65 pts | B | Bottom 10% | Bottom 42% | 9of 271 |
| Tyranid Prime with Lash Whip75 pts | S | Top 5% | Bottom 20% | 129of 271 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 41 | 77 |
| SHIELD | 235 | 244 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 41 | 60 |
| SHIELD | 235 | 310 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Winged Tyranid Prime, 65 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.
65 pts → kills ~27 pts → 41 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.
~153 pts → 235 per 100Top 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.