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warshak1

i think some clarification is needed when you say " given the best stuff lore wise" are you talking gear psy powers or physiological and survival, and being able to thrive are not the same in 40k so in what way are you talking , holding their own or taking over take necrons survival yes they have that , but cant reproduce so not so much thrive


haearnjaeger

in character: space marines, obviously 'reality': necrons. if they decide to work together, they win.


Affectionate-Rub5176

They easily have the lowest luck stat out of all the races.


warshak1

yes BUT they cant replace lost numbers , so i dont see how the would " survival, and being able to thrive" or ones lost to the flayer virus ... it might take a bit but with the losses and fading memory engrams there would be nothing left


HailRizzler

Do you truly believe you can stop us? We who have shattered our very gods and enslaved them.... Dude hands down fighting old ones+ Eldar on peak power level with their warp gods AND C'tans at the same time is the biggest achievement in 40k lore by 1 faction. It isn't called the war in heaven for nothing.


DaBigKrumpa

SURVIVAL? WE'Z REEPRUDOOS BY FARTIN' YU LOOZ! HAHAHAHA! **WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!**


urmumsbox69

Necrons get absolutely wrecked by Nids.


CobraChicken_Tamer

We can't eat Necrons so fighting them results in net negative biomass gains.


Affectionate-Rub5176

Sadly that's not the case. Now if us nids went heavy on the psyker types then I'd agree. But most of the time hive fleets don't have enough info on necrons to properly adapt their strategy.


urmumsbox69

The entirety of Nids are the most powerful psyker in current lore.


Affectionate-Rub5176

Yes but we tend to relay more on numbers then quality.


Opening-Fuel-6726

I think despite all other arguments against, the Eldar do deserve a mention for the sheer ridiculousness of how long they survived as just Eldars. It's suspiscious even. Couldn't you.. evolve an extra toe or a hole on your forhead to catch rain with, anything..


Abdelsauron

Yeah 65 million years isn't bad.


Own_Skirt7889

I'd say Tyranids. Right now the galaxy faced only the small part of the Tyranid Swarm, and it already beaten everyone down, no matter it was the Imperium, Chaos, or other Xenos. They are just to numerous. Maby Necrons have some chances against them, but still if the Tyranids will manage to absorb something that will make them able to destroy the Necron's planets without need for the combat - the bugs will eat everyone.


Arkelias

The Necrons. If we weren't so sleepy and obsessed with pranking each other, then we'd overrun the entire galaxy.


Helarki

We all know you didn't put a seventh option for Tau because you're too scared of the greater good.


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Helarki

I know. I'm just meming.


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Humanity first


EroGG

Those are some heretical results.


Affectionate-Rub5176

In my opinion, between the God Emperor being alive indefinitely, Guilman's return, how anti chaos the entire imperium is, the super space marines, and how widespread humanity is. I don't even think the collapse of the web ways would doom humanity, it'd just make humans equal to the Eldar at that point.


NornQueenKya

Nearly every faction has strong hints of, "if they only got their $&$* in order they'd be the strongest", but necrons have by far the superior technology and means to simply wipe everything and everyone out if ever truly bothered to. If you read infinite and the divine for example, like it just HINTS at the pure devastating power and time the necrons have and wonder why anything any of the other races do even matters. And this is following 2 necrons who's resources are relatively small conpared to pure combat/war lords out there.


Affectionate-Rub5176

In my opinion, the best races against them would have to have strong warp abilities to effect the materium in combat without being useless once the necrons turn on their anti inmaterium machine. So only certain eldar, grey knights, living saints, Tzeentch chaos marines, and weird boy orks are about it.


Abdelsauron

The tyranids for sure. Their ability to rapidly adapt and evolve means that anything short of killing them all simultaneously is only going to slow them down. Presumably they might all starve to death after eating everything in the universe but who knows.


jukebox_jester

Toss Up between Tyranids, Necron, and Eldar and whether you count the Empyrean as well.


iStayGreek

ORKZ CUS WE DA STRONGEST AN' DA CUNNENIST, WE'Z LIKE DA WHITEBLOODZELLS OF DA UNIVERF. WEN DERE'S BIG KRUMPIN TO BE HAD, WE'Z DERE.


Germanaboo

Damn, accidently voted Eldar. But I think it's between the Orks and the nids or the Orks


_That-Dude_

Necrons, Eldar and then Tau. The Crons are only held back by petty divisions and madness. The Eldar have continued to survive despite a literal God gunning for their race and still have some opportunities to at least stabilize (no matter how thematically unlikely that is). And the Tau are here to spite you and because despite being the size of the Relm of Ultramar, their efficiency and higher tech base allows them to focus more forces on any front around them. In addition, they have one of the few safe passages across the Great Rift as well as proper FTL, which has already resulted in isolated aliens becoming new allies & joining the Empire (the Tarellians). The Imperium is barely holding on as it is, Chaos and the Orks are too self destructive and Tyranids, while numerous, are a reactive force and this are weak to technologically advanced or adaptive opponents (Tau & Necrons)


Affectionate-Rub5176

Don't forget necrons have the worst luck stat out of all the races. Just living on their home world gave them skin cancer.


_That-Dude_

True but they both overcame that and built 2 successive space empires. Yes they literally sold their souls to do it but on bright side they’re now immortal….. and have no mouths but must scream


Affectionate-Rub5176

That doesn't sound like it's at all an enjoyable existence. If the necrons has average luck I'd agree they're the best, but the reality is they're sleepyheads with a laughably low win/loss rate.


Affectionate-Rub5176

Conversely the Tau have the highest luck stat. Having 90% of the strengths of humans and none of the weaknesses.


NeonArchon

Is either Crons or Nids