If we MAXED out an Ogryn's (an Ogryn that could land himself serving in this Militarum) intellect. Capped it out. Smartest Ogryn there ever was, no he's landed here in darktide, no rules.

[Front Bucket]

How smart is he in IQ? Based on what I'm finding online, most "typical" Ogryn have an IQ of 70, meaning their average is our "significantly intellectually handicapped" if I understand correctly. With implants, warp, characters like the emperor, and like 500 books of other lore I won't ever get around to reading... How smart we talking here? IQ and "that of an X old child."

[Jakal, Lady kisser]

best you can do is tiktok addicted 13-year old.

[Bovril Brigadier]

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[AzZotik]

The only concrete numbers are from TTRPG, where human can have an intelligence of 22-40, whereas an Ogryn is going to vary from 7-25, prior to other factors.

Theoretically, a "smart" Ogryn is slightly smarter than your average guardsman conscripted as a peasant from an Agri-World, they can count on their fingers and understand orders SLIGHTLY more complex than "move here and shoot there".

The smartest Ogryn in 40k has been Nork Deddog, he could write his own name, count to four, did not have trouble coherently speaking, and did not spend minutes interpreting the orders. Smartest Ogryn that is physically possible would be equivalent of a school dropout 12 years old with ADHD.

Ogryns in Darktide are pretty close to "Smart" Ogryn, but you still can hear them either have memory issues (Brawler), have trouble coherently speaking (Bodyguard), fail to count their fingers in Valkyrie during mission loading, have extremely simplistic almost instinctual behavior (Thug). So they are way below Nork, but smart enough to be believable player characters considering they get orders by Vox and should be able to follow orders from any NPC that issues them during the mission.

[WillofBarbaria]

AzZotik is actually a little wrong. Nork is the smartest NON PSYCHIC Ogryn. Psychic Ogryns are usually just as intelligent as an average human, or more intelligent, but it's incredibly rare for an Ogryn to become a Psyker, even so rare that is said to be impossible.

Fortunately we have books and lore that say otherwise, and the best example is Cassia, an Ogryn who serves Lord Inquisitor Falx, of the Ordo Xenos. She keeps memoirs that are at such a high writing level, a regular human has to ask what the bigger words mean lol. She's even trained to be the inquisitor's successor.

Sources: "Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh!"

[Brother Atheos]

Check out the average IQ in.. some parts of the world we cant talk about.