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11TH EDITION · PERFORMANCE DOSSIER · THROUGH 2026-W30
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Strength Index · where it wins
STRONGER
rank #5 of 28 · composite +0.659
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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
52.9% This week 52.1% This patch
weekly 214 games · patch 1092 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
+0.41σ
50.8% · 776 games
TOP CUT
+0.84σ
1.3× field share
BLOWOUT
+1.17σ
10.5 avg battle points
CONSISTENCY
+0.07σ
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)
+0.659
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 73% 22g
  • Drukhari 72% 29g
  • Adepta Sororitas 67% 18g
Toughest matchups
  • Orks 31% 74g
  • Thousand Sons 38% 53g
  • Dark Angels 40% 35g
Deathwatch 80% 5g
Adeptus Mechanicus 73% 22g
Drukhari 72% 29g
Adepta Sororitas 67% 18g
Chaos Knights 63% 16g
Imperial Knights 61% 59g
Death Guard 59% 49g
Leagues of Votann 59% 34g
World Eaters 56% 32g
Tyranids 55% 69g
Black Templars 55% 11g
Blood Angels 54% 24g
Space Wolves 54% 26g
Chaos Space Marines 53% 43g
Genestealer Cults 53% 17g
Grey Knights 50% 30g
Astra Militarum 49% 37g
Emperor’s Children 48% 46g
Necrons 47% 74g
T’au Empire 47% 70g
Adeptus Custodes 47% 68g
Aeldari 45% 20g
Space Marines 44% 86g
Dark Angels 40% 35g
Thousand Sons 38% 53g
Orks 31% 74g
Imperial Agents 0% 2g
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 494 45% 51.2% +1.9
Plague Legion 258 24% 49.4% +0.6
Cavalcade of Chaos 234 21% 53.8% +5.2
Shadow Legion 216 20% 47.8% +0.1
Scintillating Legion 209 19% 50.8% +3.2
Lords of the Warp 148 14% 52.1% +3.8
Blood Legion 129 12% 59.2% +8.4
Daemonic Incursion READ WITH CARE 72 7% 50.7% -2.7
Legion of Excess READ WITH CARE 68 6% 67.2% +13.4
(unresolved detachment) 135 12% 52.3% +3.5
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 1092 games that ran each detachment) and sums above 100%. 88% 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 214 20% 49%
Cavalcade of Chaos + Shadow Legion 122 11% 52%
Lords of the Warp + Scintillating Legion 114 10% 54%
Shadow Legion + Warptide READ WITH CARE 79 7% 38%
Blood Legion + Warptide READ WITH CARE 74 7% 56%

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-W30

This window (singles): 50.8% win rate over 776 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
War in the Wastelands GT
40-player field
View on BCP
Blood Legion and Cavalcade of Chaos Disruption 2000 pts
Characters
  • Skullmaster [Brazenmaw]100
  • Karanak70
  • Bloodthirster [Fury’s Cage]340
  • 2×Rendmaster on Blood Throne150
Datasheets
  • Bloodcrushers190
  • Flesh Hounds150
  • Bloodletters110
  • Bloodcrushers200
  • Bloodcrushers210
  • 2×Flesh Hounds75
  • 2×Skull Cannon90
#2
Burn & Learn Vol.17
20-player field
View on BCP
Cavalcade of Chaos and Shadow Legion Purge the Foe 2000 pts
Characters
  • Skullmaster [Leaping Shadows]110
  • 2×Skullmaster85
  • Bloodthirster [Fade to Darkness]350
  • Great Unclean One [Mantle of Gloom (Aura)]285
  • Rendmaster on Blood Throne150
Datasheets
  • Bloodcrushers180
  • Bloodcrushers190
  • Bloodcrushers200
  • Beasts of Nurgle70
  • Flesh Hounds75
  • 2×Plague Drones110
#3
Burn & Learn Vol.17
20-player field
View on BCP
Plague Legion, Warptide Take and Hold
Characters
  • Rotigus280
Datasheets
  • Sloppity Bilepiper + Plaguebearers185
  • Sloppity Bilepiper70
  • 3×Plaguebearers115
  • Epidemius + Plaguebearers195
  • Epidemius80
  • Poxbringer + Plaguebearers180
  • Poxbringer55
  • Plaguebearers125
  • Great Unclean One285
  • Great Unclean One300
  • 2×Nurglings45
  • 2×Beasts of Nurgle70
  • Flamers65
  • Flesh Hounds75
  • Skull Cannon90

WHAT THE WINNING LISTS RUN UNITS IN THIS FACTION’S UNDEFEATED & ONE-LOSS ARMIES · 2026-W30

Across the 27 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 27 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-W30. 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.