Rainbow Six Siege – Every Operator in 3 Sentences

I’m gonna keep this as short as possible to let you at least know how every operators work. Don’t expect any in-depth stuff from this at all. This is aimed for beginners that’s still learning the basics of the game.

Attackers

Maverick

• He can blowtorch through reinforced walls to make small holes to peek and shoot through. 
• Try to catch him offguard while he’s burning a hole with his torch. 
• He’s Overpowered.

Lion

• When you see a timer on the top of your screen counting down quickly find a safe spot to hide. 
• Once the timer goes off, don’t move unless you’re getting shot at or you’re sure they’ve found you. 
• If you move while his ability is active, you position will be revealed. 

Finka

• Her boost’s area of effect is global. 
• Her boost gives her teammates 25 shield, Movement speed and Recoil Reduction. 
• If her teammates are injured, her boost revives the injured teammate. 

Dokkaebi

• She can make phone calls to everyone on the defender’s team to give out their location. 
• She can have access to the defender’s cameras after interacting with a dead defender operator. 
• Her phone call doesn’t work on Echo. 

Zofia

• She can fire concussion grenades that temporaily deafen the defenders, also causing them to be half-blind and experience dizzying effects. 
• She can fire grenades similar to impact grenades to open holes through breachable surfaces. 
• She can recover really quickly from concussion effects. 

Ying

• She can throw a flashbang, except that it flashes several times in a row. 
• She can also stick her flashbang on breachable surfaces. Flashing enemies on the other side. 
• She won’t get blinded by her own flashbang. 

Jackal

• He can trace defender’s footprints. 
• He can reveal defender’s identity and location by scanning their footprints 
• Mute jammers disables his ability to track footprints. 

Hibana

• Hibana can break through reinforced walls with her pellets. 
• Her pellets opens a small rectangular hole but she can fire several of them to make a larger hole. 
• Bandit’s shock wire or Mute jammers can disable and destroy the pellets. 

Capitao

• Fires a bolt that deals damage to defenders in area of effect. 
• He can also fire a smoke grenade. 
• He can’t make a headshot with his crossbow. 

Blackbeard

• He can place a bulletproof shield on top of his weapon. 
• When he’s aiming with his sight’s, the shield will protect his head from headshots. 
• Blackbeard + Crouch + Highground = Profit. 

Buck

• His shotgun can shoot through non-reinforced walls, floors and ceilings. 
• With that being said, don’t stay near breachable surfaces. 
• Master of wallbangs. 

Sledge

• His hammer can be used to break through breachable walls and floors. 
• His hammer can also be used to destroy deployables. 
• He’s vulnerable while using his hammer, since it takes so long for him to take and swing it. 

Thatcher

• He can throw an EMP grenade to disable any electronic devices in range. 
• This includes Cameras, Sights, Pulse’s heartbeat sensor, and even Vigil’s ability. 
• Focking laser sights. 

Ash

• She can use breaching rounds to break through breachable surfaces. 
• Breaching rounds can be used to destroy deployable shields or barbed wires. 
• Bandit’s shock wire and Jager’s ADS can destroy her breaching rounds. 

Thermite

• His exothermic charge can break through reinforced walls, very loudly. 
• He’s vulnerable while placing an exothermic charge. 
• Bandit’s shock wire and Mute jammers can disable and destroy his exothermic charge. 

Montagne

• Grenades and Well placed Nitro cells can ruin his day. 
• He’s vulnerable from behind. 
• He won’t get knocked back by melee attacks effectively if he extends his shield. 

Twitch

• Her drones can deal damage to enemies, deployables and cameras. 
• Mute’s gonna leave the game. 
• Her drones can’t jump. 

Blitz

• His flash shield can be used to temporaily blind defenders. 
• Unlike any other shields, he can sprint with his shield up. 
• Mute jammers can disable his flash shield’s active if he’s in the area of effect. 

IQ

• She can scan for electronic devices. 
• This includes Bomb and Biohazard Containers. (Objectives in Bomb and Secure Area).
• She can’t detect gadgets that don’t run on power. Such as Frost’s welcome mats. 

Fuze

• He can place Cluster Charges on breachable surfaces, popping grenades to the other side. 
• It can injure and kill defenders on the other side, also destroying deployables. 
• Infamous for killing hostages. 

Glaz

• His scope comes with thermal sights, allowing him to see enemies more clearly. 
• His scope can see through smokes. 
• Details. 

Defenders

Clash

• Her shield is extendable, like Montagne’s. 
• But unlike Montagne, she can be knocked back slightly with melee attacks. 
• She can’t shoot while she’s holding her shield, but her shield can slow and deal damage. 

Maestro

• He can place cameras. 
• His cameras can be used to shoot targets. 
• His cameras can’t be destroyed by gunfire or melee hits. But can be destroyed by Sledge hammer. 

Alibi

• She can place clones of herself. 
• Shooting the clone will reveal the attacker. 
• The same goes if attackers tried walking through the clone. 

Vigil

• Vigil can use his ability to be invisible from cameras and drones. 
• However, his footsteps can still be heard. 
• Interference border will appear around the edge of the camera screen if Vigil is invisible but nearby. 

Ela

• She can throw concussion mines that works like Zofia’s concussion grenades. 
• Her mines are quite small, so they aren’t easy to find. 
• Ela herself can also recover from concussion effects really quickly. 

Lesion

• He can place poison darts on floors, that’s so small it’s almost invisible. 
• Poison darts deal damage per second and causes the attack to lose the ability to run. 
• The effect ends after the attacker pull out the dart from his leg. 

Mira

• She can place one-sided-mirrors that are also bulletproof. 
• Banned in almost every game in competitive play. (Tournaments).
• Be careful if she placed her mirror beside a breachable wall, she will shoot you through it. 

Echo

• Defender’s version of Twitch 
• His drone can hover and stick on ceilings. 
• His drones can temporaily cause dizzying effects to enemies in range. 

Caveira

• While her ability is active, her footsteps are really quiet. 
• She can injure her target then interact with him/her to execute him/her. 
• After executing her target, all the attacking operators and position will be revealed. 

Valkyrie

• She can place cameras. 
• 1440p HD cameras running with constant 300 FPS and 0.1 m/s ping. 
• She can break a barricade and throw her camera outside the objective building for spawnpeek. 

Frost

• Her welcome mat can immediately injure an attacker that stepped on it. 
• But her welcome mat is really huge and easy to notice. 
• She will most likely place them behind deployable shields and below barbed wires to hide it. 

Mute

• His jammers can disable any electronic devices in range. 
• Because of how loud his jammers are to drones, Mute’s existance can be revealed by attackers before the match even starts. 
• Try destroying the jammer that’s disabling your device, but make sure nones around to kill you. 

Smoke

• He can deploy poisonous smoke that deals damage in the affected area. 
• Including his own teammates, but not himself. 
• What’s in the canister? 

Castle

• He can place reinforced barricades instead of wooden barricades. 
• Reinforced barricades take 12 melee hits to break instead of 3. 
• A hole around the size of bullet hole is made after hitting reinforced barricades with melee hits. 

Pulse

• He can scan for heartbeats through walls, ceilings and floors. 
• In short, he’s map hacking. 
• His own heartbeat also goes down to 0 if he fails miserably. 

Doc

• His stim pistol can heal allies or himself. 
• If a teammate is injured, he can use it to revive him from a distance. 
• He can also revive himself with the stim pistol. 

Rook

• Place an armor pack for the whole team. 
• Teammates with armor will take reduced damage from bodyshots. 
• Attackers can steal your armor pack, so make sure it’s empty or just destroy it if neccessary. 

Jager

• His ADS can disable all grenades thrown into the device’s line of sight. 
• EMP grenades will still disable ADS if it’s thrown in range and at ADS’s blind spot. 
• Roam god. 

Bandit

• Place shock wires on reinforced walls or barbed wires. 
• Anyone interacting with the shocked walls or wires will be damaged. 
• Shock wires also destroys devices, Including your teammates devices. 

Tachanka

• Deploys mounted LMG that melts anyone walking into line of sight. 
• His LMG also has a bulletproof glass blocking headshots. 
• Attackers will kneel down and pray everytime they see him. 

Kapkan

• His traps deal damage to attackers that walked past. 
• Peeking sideways of a door is a great way to check for his traps. 
• Because a real hunter always watches where he steps.