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11TH EDITION · PERFORMANCE DOSSIER · THROUGH 2026-W33
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Strength Index · where it wins
STRONGER
rank #5 of 28 · composite +0.737
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Top players · where it's rated
A-
expert tier · recency-weighted across 5 publications
the comparison layer ›
Win rate · week / patch
52.2% This week 52.4% This patch
weekly 260 games · patch 1796 games
the Archive’s tournament pull ›
RESULTS AHEAD OF REPUTATION — Chaos Daemons is winning more than top players currently rate it.
HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

WHAT DO THE FACET Z-SCORES MEAN?

Each facet number below is a z-score — a comparison to the whole competitive roster this window. Zero is the roster average; +1.0 is one standard deviation above (roughly the top 16% of factions on that facet), +2.0 is exceptional; the scale mirrors going down. The four facets — win rate, top-cut conversion, blowout margin, consistency — combine into the Strength Index composite, weighted on the tier-list page. Top players is a comparison layer: the curated top-player tier list, shown beside the results but never blended into the composite.

PERFORMANCE VITALS THIS FACTION'S TOURNAMENT RESULTS vs THE ROSTER

WIN RATE
+0.48σ
50.7% · 1282 games
TOP CUT
+1.1σ
1.42× field share
BLOWOUT
+1.16σ
10.4 avg battle points
CONSISTENCY
-0.14σ
0.029 steadiness
TOP PLAYERS 3.578 (≈ A-) recency-weighted across 5 publications — a comparison layer, never blended into the composite
COMPOSITE Z (DEFAULT WEIGHTS)
+0.737
The blend of the four performance facets at the default weights. Adjust the weights on the Strength Index.

MATCHUPS THIS FACTION vs THE ROSTER · CURRENT PATCH

Best matchups
  • Adeptus Mechanicus 74% 35g
  • Drukhari 65% 48g
  • Death Guard 63% 78g
Toughest matchups
  • Thousand Sons 38% 72g
  • Orks 38% 128g
  • Adeptus Custodes 43% 116g
Adeptus Mechanicus 74% 35g
Drukhari 65% 48g
Death Guard 63% 78g
Deathwatch 62% 13g
Grey Knights 60% 50g
Imperial Knights 60% 87g
Chaos Knights 59% 32g
Adepta Sororitas 57% 28g
Tyranids 57% 104g
Space Wolves 56% 41g
Leagues of Votann 55% 66g
World Eaters 55% 44g
T’au Empire 54% 115g
Astra Militarum 53% 49g
Blood Angels 52% 46g
Chaos Space Marines 51% 76g
Black Templars 50% 20g
Genestealer Cults 46% 28g
Aeldari 46% 39g
Emperor’s Children 46% 83g
Necrons 46% 127g
Dark Angels 44% 75g
Space Marines 43% 129g
Adeptus Custodes 43% 116g
Orks 38% 128g
Thousand Sons 38% 72g
Imperial Agents 33% 3g
Win rate against each opponent in the current patch, best first — heat-shaded around an even 50% split. Cells from fewer than 5 games are dimmed (small sample); mirror matches are excluded. The full 28×28 matrix is on Quantum.

DETACHMENTS FOOTPRINT & TOP BUILDS · CURRENT PATCH

Detachment Games Prevalence Win rate VP diff
Warptide 743 41% 51% +1.2
Cavalcade of Chaos 434 24% 55.1% +5.3
Plague Legion 387 22% 47.1% -0.1
Shadow Legion 342 19% 49.4% +1.5
Blood Legion 259 14% 60.9% +7.1
Scintillating Legion 256 14% 51% +2.8
Lords of the Warp 181 10% 51.5% +3.1
Legion of Excess 118 7% 62.8% +7.1
Daemonic Incursion 114 6% 47.8% -2.4
(unresolved detachment) 315 18% 53.8% +2.7
An 11th-edition army runs multiple detachments, and a game counts toward every detachment it fields — so prevalence is a footprint (share of this faction’s 1796 games that ran each detachment) and sums above 100%. 82% of games resolved to a named detachment.
TOP BUILDS — the detachment pairings players actually field (shares sum to 100%)
Build Games Share Win rate
Plague Legion + Warptide 319 18% 48%
Cavalcade of Chaos + Shadow Legion 207 12% 51%
Blood Legion + Cavalcade of Chaos 144 8% 66%
Blood Legion + Warptide 115 6% 54%
Daemonic Incursion 114 6% 48%

SCORING POSTURE WIN RATE BY MISSION · CURRENT PATCH

How this faction scores across the five mission postures — the bar fills to its win rate, with the mid-line marking an even 50%. Read over the current balance patch; postures under 30 games are marked thin.

RECENT FORM TOURNAMENT RESULTS THIS WINDOW · 2026-W33

This window (singles): 50.7% win rate over 1282 games.

Podium finishes this window — faction-anonymous, identified by placing and event:

The condensed composition behind these finishes is in TOP LISTS below.

TOP LISTS CONDENSED COMPOSITION OF THE BEST-PERFORMING LISTS THIS WINDOW

The lists behind this faction’s strongest finishes this window — identified here by placing, event, and field; the complete list lives at the source on BCP. Composition is condensed to datasheets and points; no rules or profile text.

#1
Oxford Onslaught Major 40k
64-player field
View on BCP
Cavalcade of Chaos and Shadow Legion Purge the Foe 2000 pts
Characters
  • 2×Skullmaster85
  • Be’lakor390
  • Bloodthirster [Fade to Darkness]350
  • 2×Lord of Change320
Datasheets
  • Bloodcrushers95
  • Bloodcrushers200
  • Flesh Hounds75
  • Chaos Lord with Jump Pack80
#3
WTC Warmaster GT 2026
613-player field
View on BCP
Legion of Excess and Warptide Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • 2×Contorted Epitome100
  • Keeper of Secrets [Soul Glutton]265
  • The Masque of Slaanesh95
  • Tormentbringer [False Majesty (Aura)]165
Datasheets
  • 6×Daemonettes90
  • Nurglings45
  • Beasts of Nurgle75
  • 3×Fiends180
  • Flesh Hounds75
#4
Hole in the Wall GT
46-player field
View on BCP
Plague Legion and Warptide Take and Hold 2000 pts
Characters
  • Horticulous Slimux120
  • Sloppity Bilepiper [Cankerblight (Aura)]70
  • 2×Poxbringer55
  • Epidemius80
  • Great Unclean One [Droning Shroud (Aura)]300
  • Great Unclean One [Font of Spores (Aura)]285
  • Rotigus280
Datasheets
  • 2×Beasts of Nurgle140
  • 3×Plaguebearers115
  • Plaguebearers130

WHAT THE WINNING LISTS RUN UNITS IN THIS FACTION’S UNDEFEATED & ONE-LOSS ARMIES · 2026-W33

Across the 37 Chaos Daemons armies that went undefeated or one-loss this window, ranked by how often each unit appears. Faction-anonymous — the lists are counted, never attributed to a pilot.

“Winning” here means the pilot finished undefeated (X–0) or one-loss (X–1) at a 5+ round singles event with a field of 16 or more. Share is the fraction of those 37 lists that included the unit; a datasheet run in multiples still counts as one list. No rules or profile text — unit names and counts only.

EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE EDITOR’S READ — INTERPRETIVE, NOT MEASURED

EDITOR

Editorial perspective coming. The Editor’s analysis of this faction’s current competitive position will appear here as the dossier program rolls out.

CROSS-LINKS RECAPS, METHODOLOGY, DIRECTORY

RECENT TOURNAMENT RECAPS

METHODOLOGY

Data: the Archive's first-party BCP pull, edition-lifetime through 2026-W33. Facet z-scores are computed across the competitive roster on the singles subset; top-player tier is the comparison layer, never blended into the composite. See methodology for the exact definitions.