There is a total of 61 operators considering both attackers and defenders in the game. Rainbow Six Siege and each operator have a different role, such as Intel Gatherer, Area Denial, Anti Roam, Secure, Roam, Buff, Soft Breach, Disable, Back Line, Anchor, Intel Denier, Front Line, Hard Breach, Crowd Control, Covering Fire, Flank, Trap, Anti Hard Breach, Shield.
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The game features an asymmetrical structure whereby the teams are not always balanced in their choices of abilities. Hence the players have to choose wisely to make it as balanced and useful as possible.
In this game, each operator has their particular role which would impact the flow of the game, so instead of selecting a particular operator, We are selecting the class of the operator which would benefit the team in order to win the match.
Attackers
Hard breacher
For attackers, the attacking team’s first pick would be a hard breacher as they move the team forward. They are
- Thermite
- Ash
- Hibana
- Maverick
Disable
Disable class is a special class of operators who disable the gadgets of the defenders. Their main job is to disable the wall denial gadgets set up by the defenders.
This class consist of –
- Thatcher
- Flores
- Kali
- Maverick
- Zofia
- Iq
- Twitch
- Fuze
- Ash
Soft Breacher
The next pick would be soft breachers like –
- Sledge
- Ash
- Buck
- Zofia
- Flores
- Glaz
Intel Gathers, Anti roam and Shields
Intel gatherers consists of –
- Zero
- Iana
- Lion
- Dokkaebi
- Jackal
- Twitch
- Iq
- Flores
- Osa
Anti Roam consists of –
- Gridlock
- Nomad
- Lion
- Jackal
- Osa
Shield class operators consist of –
- Montagne
- Blitz
- Blackbeard
Flank
This class of operator consists of –
- Nøkk
- Amaru
- Maverick
- Dokkaebi
- Zofia
- Ash
- Capito
- Buck
- Sledge
- IQ
- Fuze
Crowd Control
This class of operator consists of –
- Gridlock
- Lion
- Zofia
- Ying
- Blitz
- Nomad
Cover Firing
- Kali
- Blackbeard
- Glaz
Buff
In attacking, Finkka is the only operator that is in this category.
Defenders
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Anti Hard Breachers
This class of Defenders should be the main pick of the team as they are the ones that deny the main attack forces, i.e., Hard breachers with their gadgets.
This class consists of –
- Kaid
- Mute
- Bandit
Secure
This class of operators secures that area of the map for defenders. They consist of –
- Jager
- Mira
- Mute
- Thunderbird
- Wamai
- Melusi
- Aruni
- Echo
- Maestro
- Castle
- Clash
Trap, Roam, Area denial, Intel gatherers and Intel Denial
The above five classes are grouped together as they all play an equally important role and their role is similar in nature
The trap class operator consists of –
- Alibi
- Lesion
- Frost
- Kapkan
- Ela
Roam class operators consists of –
- Thunderbird
- Oryx
- Vigil
- Ela
- Jager
- Pulse
- Valkyrie
- Caveria
- Alibi
- Lesion
Area denial class operator consists of –
- Goyo
- Maestro
- Smoke
Intel gatherers consist of –
- Echo
- Mozzie
- Valkyrie
- Pulse
- Caveria
- Aruni
- Mira
- Lesion
- Maestro
- Clash
- Melusi
Intel Denial class operator consists of –
- Warden
- Mozzie
- Alibi
- Vigil
- Caveria
- Mute
Buff
Buff operator consists of –
- Thunderbird
- Doc
- Rook
Anchor
This class consist of –
- Tachanka
- Doc
- Rook
- Kaid
- Castle
- Smoke
- Mira
- Echo
- Lesion
- Maestro
- Warden
- Aruni
- Wamai
Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical shooter game currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Google Stadia, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PC platforms.