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 125,039 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% 51.5% ± 0.78 15771 6.3% Space Marines 58.1% Necrons 44.9%
Sisters of Battle Above 50% 51.3% ± 0.71 18923 7.6% Eldar 56.4% Tau Empire 48.0%
Tau Empire Above 50% 50.8% ± 0.62 24949 10.0% Eldar 58.5% Necrons 44.3%
Imperial Guard Too close to call 50.4% ± 0.48 40853 16.3% Space Marines 55.0% Necrons 44.7%
Eldar Too close to call 50.3% ± 0.69 19985 8.0% Imperial Guard 54.8% Tau Empire 41.5%
Chaos Space Marines Too close to call 50.2% ± 0.64 23722 9.5% Necrons 53.4% Orks 45.8%
Orks Too close to call 49.6% ± 0.66 21833 8.7% Chaos Space Marines 54.2% Eldar 45.8%
Necrons Below 50% 49.2% ± 0.57 29642 11.9% Tau Empire 55.7% Space Marines 42.3%
Space Marines Below 50% 48.9% ± 0.42 54400 21.8% Necrons 57.7% Dark Eldar 41.9%

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