Race balance and tier list

Measured rather than argued: every ranked 1v1 game recorded here, counted by race. A race is called strong or weak only when its win rate sits far enough from 50% that its own sample can tell the difference.

Based on 121,454 recorded matches since 2025-08-14. Grows as more games are ingested.

Ranked 1v1 only, and only matches with two sides of equal size. The figure after each win rate is the 95% confidence margin: a race counts as strong or weak only when that whole range falls on one side of 50%, so a thin sample cannot promote a race by accident.

Calculated by this site from matches in Relic's official API

Calculated by this site from matches reported by Relic's official API. The matches and ratings are Relic's data; the percentages here are what we add up from them.

Race Verdict Win% Games Pick% Best matchup Worst matchup
Dark Eldar Above 50% 51.4% ± 0.79 15289 6.3% Space Marines 57.9% Necrons 44.4%
Sisters of Battle Above 50% 51.2% ± 0.72 18283 7.5% Eldar 55.9% Tau Empire 47.4%
Tau Empire Above 50% 50.9% ± 0.63 24360 10.0% Eldar 58.4% Necrons 44.6%
Imperial Guard Too close to call 50.5% ± 0.49 39764 16.4% Space Marines 55.1% Necrons 44.8%
Eldar Too close to call 50.2% ± 0.70 19368 8.0% Space Marines 54.7% Tau Empire 41.6%
Chaos Space Marines Too close to call 50.2% ± 0.65 22921 9.4% Eldar 53.5% Orks 46.2%
Orks Too close to call 49.6% ± 0.67 21141 8.7% Chaos Space Marines 53.8% Eldar 46.0%
Necrons Below 50% 49.2% ± 0.58 28976 11.9% Dark Eldar 55.6% Space Marines 42.4%
Space Marines Below 50% 48.8% ± 0.43 52804 21.7% Necrons 57.6% Dark Eldar 42.1%

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