WHG Strategy update: WH40K, latest competitive Faction tiers by AoW40k (Down Under)

Credits

1. Summarised info from the Art of War 40k podcast
2. ITC Battles App data used by Art of War 40k

Summarising the latest Warhammer 40K rankings, using statistics gained from the ITC Battles App data, the Art of War 40k podcast takes us through the latest tier rankings for all Factions.

The tabularised information they present is below (as at today, compared to 2-3 months ago):

Labels: ^1 up a tier, ^2 up 2 tiers, ^3 up 3 tiers, v1 down a tier, v2 down 2 tiers, v3 down 3 tiers

Time period/ Tier	Faction	Comments
S Tier	Drukhari	Top of the Faction Tier by a lot 75% win rate at GT, 72% RTT win rate (mirror match removed), over 1400 games All the tools/utility 4-7% of meta representation overnight Won 6 of latest GTs 5-10% too cheap for competitive units (Wyches, Court, Succubus, Drazhar, Raider, Wracks) Power from pain early buffs, other buffs without penalty (liquifier) Raider is cheapest with fly, advance, fast, shoot out of them Don’t want to see a Genestealer Cults style multi-nerf
	Adeptus Soritas	2nd top Faction 55% win rate, dropped due to Drukhari Hard to play, good player can pull off lots of tricks 5 top % results recently Not many bad builds, most well rounded faction
	Chaos Daemons	v1
	Dark Angels	3rd top Faction 49% win rate, 3rd most played New player friendly, top end is very strong A lot of people dropping them atm
	Harlequins	v1
	White Scars	v2
A Tier	Adeptus Custodes	Top of A Tier with Harlequins Top-4 9 times, 6% representation Only bested by S Tier armies
	Adeptus Mechanicus	53% win rate since 9th dropped Mass flyer list is nasty Super strong Has an anti-Drukhari build Good: Sulphour Hounds, Pteraxii Skystalkers
	Black Templars	50% win rate, some tourney wins, high win ration Devout Push is broken Great Faction
	Blood Angels	Some good characters
	Chaos Daemons	Competing with Dark Angels/Death Guard Keeper is no longer best unit Not many people playing Daemons any more
	Dark Angels	^1
	Death Guard	51% win rate -1 Damage is good Too slow, obsec is missing in good lists Terminus Est pox walkers list
	Harlequins	56% win rate Top of A Tier with Custodes Dropped down because Drukhari “do it better” People not playing them as much
	Iron Hands	53% win rate Resurgence, most unkillable Volkite Contemptor
	Necrons	Weird lists doing work 2nd most popular army Multiple tourney wins, undefeated results and top 3s Warrior builds work best (double obsec or Novok) 10.5% of meta
	Orks	Good at holding slow armies at bay Evil Suns or Goth boyz, Buggy lists, 3 solid builds to win events, multiple top-4s Teleport into their face MSU game as well as Horde (Buggys, Kommandos, Storm Boyz) Custom Stompa, Burna Bomma Damage 2 or 3 is good
	Raven Guard	v1
	Salamanders	v1
B Tier	Ultramarines	v2
	Craftworld Eldar	51% win rate, boost from soup Good mono-faction, better with soup Nightspinner menace, though expensive Low B-Tier
	Death Guard	^1
	Deathwatch	49% win rate Some builds that are interesting Potential anti-Drukhari 1/3 of Codex doesn’t work
	Drukhari	^2
	Genestealer Cults	v1
	Imperial Knights	65% win rate in soup Beat Drukhari, going first esp. Magaera is good, relics War dogs
	Orks	^1
	Raven Guard	48% win rate Some good tools
	Renegade Knights	65% win rate in soup Good with Mortarion or Magaera, war dogs, locks
	Salamanders	Top of B Tier
	Space Wolves	46% win rate Lowest B Tier Codex made them worse Some good characters
	Tyranids	One list that is devastating – Dimachaeron, potential A Tier Haradans good
	White Scars	Just won a Tournament Should be A Tier: 3x Volkite Comtemptors build
C Tier	Astra Militarum	Best in a soup Majority Guard Dual Manticores are good Scions are good
	Chaos Space Marines	Mono-faction is bad Soup is better Waiting for 2 wounds
	Craftworld Eldar	^1
	Genestealer Cults	Not many people playing them Likely C Tier
	Grey Knights	41% win rate Waiting for 2 wounds
	Imperial First	39% win rate Noone playing them Been nerfed on doctrine Could have been potential anti-Drukhari
	Imperial Knights	^1
	Tau	36% win rate WTC gave fall back and shoot for Mont’ka, need universally
	Thousand Sons	45% win rate is up Souped with other Factions
	Ultramarines	Lowest win rate at the moment Potential anit-Drukhari with re-deploy Should probably be in B Tier