Tyranids on a roll

[N.I.B.]

www.40kstats.com/faction-breakdown-report

Currently #1 faction (not counting the single Crimson Fist match) at a crazy 60.67% win rate, ahead of Raven Guard. Still very small sample, so numbers might be inflated by perhaps being currently piloted by only really good players. Exciting times, volatile meta > stale meta.

Does anyone know what 'Actual Win' means compared to 'average win' rate?

[kurtangle2]

As predicted, the best bugs are Kronos shooting detachments with Exocrines and Hive Guards with added support of 9 Hive Cult Ridgerunner so that anything that isn't guard like is going to face so much AP it's not even funny

[No One]

To say that's the 'best bugs' is calling it prematurely. There's been a bunch of other nid lists doing solidly (gaunt carpet, DeviousDonut's Hydra, unknown Kronos list this week, zimko's Behemoth/Kronos and maybe some others): these are the first with ridgerunners.

[kurtangle2]

Mar 16, 2020 13:01:12 GMT No One said:

To say that's the 'best bugs' is calling it prematurely. There's been a bunch of other nid lists doing solidly (gaunt carpet, DeviousDonut's Hydra, unknown Kronos list this week, zimko's Behemoth/Kronos and maybe some others): these are the first with ridgerunners.

The Kronos/Hive cult lists are better suited to face anything that isn't really mass cheap infantry spam. Considering that the only armies capable of doing that are Orks, IG and Other Tyr I'd say it's the best build out of the bunch for the sheer amount of accurate firepower (2s to with rerollable 1s for Ridgerunners and 3+ for other pieces in your army)

[N.I.B.]

As No One said, the nid/GSC lists have been varied, compared to what we're used to. The best factions usually only have one or maybe two really good builds, but we've seen some real diversity coming from the Forces of the Hive Mind lately.
Kraken, Kronos, Behemoth, Leviathan, even Hydra, Acolyte Spam, Ridgerunner spam, or just a token 4AE min-sized battalion like the one Nanavati won with.
From faction vs faction we can deduct that most pure Tyranid lists seem to focus around a solid shooty base, as our worst matchups are the in-your-lines-turn-2 factions, Blood Angels and GSC. Also Raven Guard is a bad matchup, which isn't good seeing how popular they are currently.

Well, enjoy while it lasts, I think Tau will make a meta splash.

[kazetanade]

Kronos/Hive Cult arent well suited to outside ITC due to relatively low mobility and sustainability, and even in ITC I think it works well because of stat efficient blocks in the Ridgerunners and points efficient shooting in the Exocrene, (HG being the same HG since start of edition) while denying 2 separate kill objectives (you can only take BGH, the other kill point has to be MfD and to kill the whole of those 3+ units is a fair struggle).

It reminds me very much of "Bring 9 tank chasisses and Fliers as Eldar" as a list, just with scarier output vs singular big things and less sustainability.

Tau and IG are going to make big meta splashes I think. With double shooting rr hit max damage Basilisks/ rr EVERYTHING Wyverns, 3+ rr1s max damage Manticores, 30" Demolishers (I dont think this is a winner personally, but apparently everyone is digging it heavily), max shot max damage Tallarn TC (or not Tallarn if you just want to blast things to death instead of JSJ), and the awesome new Scions, I think Guard are set up to be meta winners with more tools than Nids for every occassion. They can psychic support base with some great help in Inquisition, map control with guardsmen and Scions dropping, centre control with buffed Bullgryns, shoot really well with their buffed artillery, and again melee countercharge with said Bullgryns. We all already know how well they can control the board with basic Guardsmen, so in all likelihood they will make quite a big comeback (and Nids/GSC in general will too with this coming in, although the game isnt as easy as it used to be).

Tau are just naturally strong, with Farsight giving a few more options on the table and some great septs and strategems, the same old strategies work even better than before now. Strong enough to take out the main SM contender lists, hard enough to withstand a Genestealer or Ork wave, fast enough to compete with Eldar in grabbing objectives, and producing as many if not more mortal wounds than a Smite bomb where it's needed. Really scary stuff.