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Another fun idea for discussion, but who do you think is THE strongest/most powerful 40k character right now? Only rules are that they have to be alive! (Emperor doesn't count :p )
Still being generally new to the hobby, I haven't read too much into it, but from the looks of it, maybe Abaddon? Or maybe Eldrad with his powers, but probably not.. Being me, I'd love to believe Yvraine is, but I know she's not THE strongest/most powerful. There's got to be heaps of people I'm missing out on hahaha

Anyways, let me know what you guys think! Feel free to discuss ♥

Whichever Space Marine captain is the protagonist of what you're reading at the moment. :v

If you're talking pure "1v1 me bro" combat power some sort of giant daemon is probably it. In terms of important characters you're probably looking for a Daemon Primarch.

 Arachnofiend wrote:
Whichever Space Marine captain is the protagonist of what you're reading at the moment. :v

Hahahahahaahhah that's true though xD

Mmm, could you define "strongest"? Like, arm wrestling? Combat prowess or leadership ability? Or psyker shenanigans? Most of the characters have their own gimmick in some varity or another. Even if that does end up being a case of, "I'm the best general, but a (insert xenos faction here)"

cody.d. wrote:
Mmm, could you define "strongest"? Like, arm wrestling? Combat prowess or leadership ability? Or psyker shenanigans? Most of the characters have their own gimmick in some varity or another. Even if that does end up being a case of, "I'm the best general, but a (insert xenos faction here)"

I probably should have specified, but I mostly meant, like strongest overall ability, either through strength or via their powers. Strongest individual power is what I meant, not their command over an army or anything. One-man army kind of thing ♥

Would some ridiculously OP tyranid monsters count as characters?

 Matt Swain wrote:
Would some ridiculously OP tyranid monsters count as characters?

Haha sure, why not, it's all about discussion so feel free to pop whoever you think might count ♥

The Hive Mind. All Tyranids are just extensions of the singular character. No other character is capable of devouring entire worlds as the tyranids do, while casting the shadow in the warp by it's mere presence, while driving psykers mad from the outer rim of solar systems, while waging war across an entire galaxy simultaneously, while being the only actual extra galactic threat in the setting.

Well I saw a batrep with a 2,000 pt nid army consisting of 7 models, one was fairly small, the others were basically mini kaijus.

I'd bet any one of them would give any single character in a game a good fight. Maybe not kill guillmam or thrakka all the time, but at least have a shot at it.

Also these nid monsters can generally be optimized ridiculously. I mean some characters may have a lower number of high power attacks that do multiwounds that are geat for killing single targets, but not so effective against masses of peons

A nid monster might be optimized to attack and kill a single target and have a good shot at taking on thrakka or gullieman, but it could also be optimized to kill masses of peons making it more powerful vs them than either of the others are.

So one thing to do is pick a character you think might be the baddest one and see if you can, points bedamned!, optimize a nid monster or maybe a greater daemon to kill just him.

Or if you want to just go characters v character limit the fight to individual characters and not cusomizable killing machines.

I mean, in regards to most impressive kill. I think Sanguinius once killed a warlord titan (or was it a reiver?) by himself. Like, with a sword/spear and nothing else. That's a fairly hard to beat takedown.

cody.d. wrote:
I mean, in regards to most impressive kill. I think Sanguinius once killed a warlord titan (or was it a reiver?) by himself. Like, with a sword/spear and nothing else. That's a fairly hard to beat takedown.

Pretty impressive ngl

cody.d. wrote:
I mean, in regards to most impressive kill. I think Sanguinius once killed a warlord titan (or was it a reiver?) by himself. Like, with a sword/spear and nothing else. That's a fairly hard to beat takedown.

In at least one thing I read Leman Russ leaped from a building onto a warlord titan's shoulder and killed it with a blow to the head.

But then again the spacewolves telling that story probably had a lot of Mjod in them...

It was more definite that LR killed a massive tyranid organism on fenris, the father of kraken, because they had the damn thing's egg sac in the fang, until it hatched.

Are we talking about tabletop performance with RAW and honest die rolls or just the fiction?

 Matt Swain wrote:

cody.d. wrote:

Are we talking about tabletop performance with RAW and honest die rolls or just the fiction?

I mean fiction-wise, not tabletop aha

 Luunar wrote:
Another fun idea for discussion, but who do you think is THE strongest/most powerful 40k character right now? Only rules are that they have to be alive! (Emperor doesn't count :p )
Still being generally new to the hobby, I haven't read too much into it, but from the looks of it, maybe Abaddon? Or maybe Eldrad with his powers, but probably not.. Being me, I'd love to believe Yvraine is, but I know she's not THE strongest/most powerful. There's got to be heaps of people I'm missing out on hahaha

Anyways, let me know what you guys think! Feel free to discuss ♥

Do gods in the Warp count? If so, whichever Chaos God is currently at the top of the heap, usually Khorne. Maybe Gork and Mork.

If you're just talking about physical beings, one of the Daemon Primarchs manifesting in the materium. Based on feats as well as some statements Magnus is head and shoulders the most powerful Primarch, able to incinerate Warlord Titans pre-ascension, and post-ascension can telekinetically destroy cruisers in orbit.

I probably should have thought of primarchs hahaha, idk why I stopped at Abaddon xD

 Luunar wrote:
I probably should have thought of primarchs hahaha, idk why I stopped at Abaddon xD

Abbigail is strong enough to tie the chaos legions together, insofar that could put him head and shoulders above Daemonprimarchs.
Otoh, could is the key, he might aswell just be a snarky smart dude that knows the full name of the Daemonprimarchs , or in the case of angron, probably just offers him an outlet.

Well,thrakka was swallowed by a tyranid kaiju big enough t swallow him whole and hacked his way out, making him pretty damn tough.

 Matt Swain wrote:
Well,thrakka was swallowed by a tyranid kaiju big enough t swallow him whole and hacked his way out, making him pretty damn tough.

Ork logic xD

Limiting myself to anything that's ever had rules and/or a model, just for the sake of silliness like <insert actual god here>.
It's got to be one of the Primarchs really, hasn't it? Mortarion is ridiculously tough, and Magnus has the bonus of incredible psychic power - but also, as Daemons they both have a sort of permanence by being linked to the warp - so I don't think Roboute is in the running there

 Lance845 wrote:
The Hive Mind. All Tyranids are just extensions of the singular character. No other character is capable of devouring entire worlds as the tyranids do, while casting the shadow in the warp by it's mere presence, while driving psykers mad from the outer rim of solar systems, while waging war across an entire galaxy simultaneously, while being the only actual extra galactic threat in the setting.

IMO strongest character is:

In LORE: Imperator Titan

IRL: The twisted mind that came up an Imperial Titan

I'm surprised no-one has mention Sly Marbo yet...

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm surprised no-one has mention Sly Marbo yet...

marbo is banned for unfair advantage due to weight class issues related to his balls of steel.

If we're talking pure character Vs Character combat then we should probably be looking at famous assassins, which doubtless have the "could have killed anyone from beyond the horizon with a sniper if they'd been on the same planet at the same time" kinda vibe. The sort of characters who are understated, and their only reason for not killing every major character is because they weren't there.

If we're going for pure strength, then Ghazzie is probably high up, as he's got the weight of ork belief behind him. I imagine he'd still lose to a bloodthirster in arm wrestling, which would knock the orks belief so he'd lose the rematch even worse. Plus he's all stitched together anyway so his arm'd probably rip off from all the forces.

Most powerful is probably going to be a greater daemon but at that point it's down to their goals - A Bloodthirster will want to kill you, but a lord of change will want to corrupt you, and a great unclean one will want to give you "gifts". We'll avoid discussing the keeper of secrets for now.

cody.d. wrote:
I mean, in regards to most impressive kill. I think Sanguinius once killed a warlord titan (or was it a reiver?) by himself. Like, with a sword/spear and nothing else. That's a fairly hard to beat takedown.

OP said have to be alive, dude


I’m going with Lucius the eternal. He’s a bad ass warrior and can beat almost all opponents but if you beat him you die and his soul is resurrected in your body, you can’t win against him.

I think a named C'tan shard would pretty easily slaughter anything else mentioned so far. The Burning One's shard nuked a Tyranid titan thing in about 10 seconds

 Luunar wrote:

 Matt Swain wrote:
Well,thrakka was swallowed by a tyranid kaiju big enough t swallow him whole and hacked his way out, making him pretty damn tough.

Ork logic xD

Oh it gets better. He had a shard of bone/tooth stuck in his side so hard they had to get an ork dred to rip it out.


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mrFickle wrote:

cody.d. wrote:
I mean, in regards to most impressive kill. I think Sanguinius once killed a warlord titan (or was it a reiver?) by himself. Like, with a sword/spear and nothing else. That's a fairly hard to beat takedown.

OP said have to be alive, dude


I’m going with Lucius the eternal. He’s a bad ass warrior and can beat almost all opponents but if you beat him you die and his soul is resurrected in your body, you can’t win against him.

Nah, sangi is alive mate. The sanginour is his soul/herald/whatever warp nonsense.

So, uh, anyone seen the preview rules for the silent king yet? He's lookin' pretty strong there with those menhir cannons that do 6 damage each.

I mean, if you count weapons they can wield then it gets a bit silly at times. A random Mek could be sitting in the controls of a tractor beam, lobbing meteors and such at people. Abby has The World Killer. And lets not even mention the weapon planets that crons have their skeletal metal hands on.

cody.d. wrote:
I mean, if you count weapons they can wield then it gets a bit silly at times. A random Mek could be sitting in the controls of a tractor beam, lobbing meteors and such at people. Abby has The World Killer. And lets not even mention the weapon planets that crons have their skeletal metal hands on.

Forget weapon planets. They can just use that living digital star map that manipulates reality. Literally anyone could just wink your star out of existence and send your systems planets and moons spinning out into the cold void.

Wait, there's a thought, the C'tan can warp reality can they not? Doesn't the description of Times Arrow, one of the C'tan powers, throw the target back in time before anything existed? (or some over the top nonsense like that.)

They really have some ridiculous abilities when you read the descriptions behind "inflict mortal wounds here."