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Notably, a faction performing strongly or weakly in the stats can help us decide on which tier borderline cases fall into, while if a faction’s statistical performance diverges wildly from where it’s been placed it can prompt us to take a closer look at tournament results – maybe a specific bad matchup is pushing numbers down, or there’s a hot new build we haven’t encountered yet. This helps refine the initial tiering, injecting a less vibes-based source of placings.

Rob and the stats team do a fantastic job of collating and presenting stats on faction performance in the regular Meta Analyses, drawing both from tournaments and data from the ITC battles app. This is generally enough to take an initial stab at sorting factions into tiers, but isn’t the end of the process.įirst up, we have statistics. Which factions aren’t showing up at all or rarely.

Which factions are putting up plenty of X-1 records, but struggling to convert that to trophies.

As part of producing the column, I look at every single army list that racks up an X-1 or better record at the majority of events that take place around the world, generally giving a good indication of: The primary data used to sort factions is the information I gather by reviewing event results every week for Competitive Innovations. The top rated armies are those that are powerful enough to win games, and consistent enough at doing so that they can navigate through six rounds of play at a major and emerge triumphant. The Goonhammer Tier list is primarily rating each faction’s ability to win events.

How the Tier List Works How Factions are Rated (Drukhari – out but unrated last time as they were so new).It’s been eight months since the last Tier List update, so what has relased in that time? Quite a bit, unsurprisingly. Metagame Shifts: Even if a faction’s rules stay the same, shifts in popularity of other armies can impact on its performance if it has strong or weak matchups against them.Innovation: Players come up with a new angle on a faction that substantially changes its fortunes.New Rules: Games Workshop releasing new books or rules changes can increase or decrease a faction’s power.A number of factors can influence faction rankings, mostly coming under three headings: