What Counters Ying in Rainbow Six Siege? Every Operator That Beats the Candela

Ying is an Attacker whose unique ability is the Candela: a thrown device that bursts into a cluster of blinding flashes, bought to win the first seconds of a room entry. Ying's whole plan hangs on that gadget going off where Ying wants it to. So the counters to Ying are the Defenders whose own kit stops, redirects or cancels it.

Who counters Ying

• JägerHARD

  The Candela releases its flash charges as a thrown grenade, and Jager's Active Defense System shoots it down before it lands, so Ying's entry tool never goes off.

• WamaiHARD

  A Mag-NET System pulls Ying's thrown Candela to itself and detonates it there, so Wamai chooses where the flash goes off and it is not where she wanted it.

• WardenHARD

  Ying's whole kit is the Candela's cluster of blinding flashes, and Warden's Glance Smart Glasses either prevent the blindness or cleanse it a second later.

• DenariMEDIUM

  A Candela buys the seconds to run into a room blind, and the T.R.I.P. Connector's answer is a laser web that does not need to be seen to be walked into.

The strength beside each one is a band, not a score. A hard counter means the gadget stops working outright. A medium counter is a real edge the attacker can still play around. A soft counter is a mild tilt. Every pairing comes from the two operators' own kit pages: the mechanism from the operator who wins it, the gadget it beats from Ying's.

Questions players ask

Does Jäger counter Ying? Yes, a hard counter on our list. The Candela releases its flash charges as a thrown grenade, and Jager's Active Defense System shoots it down before it lands, so Ying's entry tool never goes off.

Does Wamai counter Ying? Yes, a hard counter on our list. A Mag-NET System pulls Ying's thrown Candela to itself and detonates it there, so Wamai chooses where the flash goes off and it is not where she wanted it.

Does Warden counter Ying? Yes, a hard counter on our list. Ying's whole kit is the Candela's cluster of blinding flashes, and Warden's Glance Smart Glasses either prevent the blindness or cleanse it a second later.

Does Denari counter Ying? Yes, a medium counter on our list. A Candela buys the seconds to run into a room blind, and the T.R.I.P. Connector's answer is a laser web that does not need to be seen to be walked into.

Who Ying counters

It runs both ways. These are the Defenders whose gadgets the Candela gets the better of.

• SmokeMEDIUM

  Smoke waits on a choke to detonate gas the moment someone commits, and a Candela anchored round the corner takes his sight away at exactly that moment.

• TachankaMEDIUM

  The Shumikha Launcher has to be aimed, and its grenades only arm after the first bounce. A Candela cluster blinds Tachanka for longer than that window.

Where Ying sits right now

Ying sits at C on our Y11S3 Operation Split Fire list, built from named creators' published rankings rather than from telemetry. The full loadout, with what creators run on Ying, is on Ying's own page.

Every pairing is our own read of two operators' kits, taken from Ubisoft's own operator pages: the mechanism from the operator who wins it, the gadget it beats from the operator who brings it. No pairing is a statistic and none comes from telemetry. Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.

Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.