Adeptus Custodes Bites the Dust in Warhammer 40,000
According to a new report on Warhammer 40k tournament results published by Stat Check, Adeptus Custodes are dominating the top tables.
Statistics from the Warhammer 40k website Stat Check suggest that Adeptus Custodes win just 23% of games between highly skilled players. The Stat Check Dashboard, updated on May 14, tracks tournament data since the Adeptus Custodes Codex was released.
Adeptus Custodes had a win rate of 57% between beginner, intermediate, and skilled players. When the top 25% of players face off, this falls to just 23%. Custodes took home just 42% of the top four places.
Adeptus Custodes Bites the Dust in Warhammer 40,000
The community widely panned Warhammer 40k’s Custodes Codex release, and this data supports their concerns. As Stat Check’s Clifford Thomas puts it in a post on Reddit, “Custodes have likely disappeared as a competitive option altogether”.
Stat Check’s data is limited to seven Warhammer 40k GTs and Opens that comprise more than 3,000 games. While 23 Custodes players played 101 games, only 13 were rated above 250 – not enough to test their performance.
The drop in Custodes’ performance among the top 25% of players is stark. Leagues of Votann and Tyranids have 30% and 32% win rates, respectively. Other player groups do better with Votann winning 52% and Tyranids winning 44%.
Stat Check’s dashboard has a new feature that lets you compare faction performance across levels of competition. While top-level win rates show how factions perform overall, these flatten out differences in performance between factions.
In other words, it conceals factions like the Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines, who have 34% and 40% overall win rates, respectively, but an equally balanced 50% win rate when competing with the top 25% of players.
We’re just over a month removed from Warhammer 40k points updates, and we’re looking forward to the new Warhammer 40k Mission Cards. Before that, Codex Chaos Space Marines is set to upset the meta even further.
