BanditLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on Bandit, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
MP7
- P12
- Keratos .357
- Nitro CellNotJoeyBlack's pick
- Barbed Wire
- NotJoeyBlack: Laser because you re-ADS constantly after placing batteries.
- Rasco100: Iron sight with suppressor or flash hider, or a 1x. He calls iron-sight MP7 the real Bandit player's build.
- NotJoeyBlack: Obviously run the C4, because the C4 is fantastic.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack and Rasco100's pick. The secondary list is every option the game gives Bandit; nobody we read picks between them.
Where the creators disagreed
- Sight: shown Holographic A, Rasco100 says Iron Sights.
Other primaries Bandit can carry
- M870
Counters
Rainbow Six counters are gadget interactions, rules of the game rather than statistics, so every pairing here comes from the two operators' own kit pages: the mechanism from whoever wins it, the gadget it beats from whoever brings it.
Thatcher's E.G.S. Disruptor disables an active CED-1 Shock Wire before it can electrify a reinforced wall.
Maverick's Breaching Torch runs on no digital technology at all, so a wall carrying Bandit's CED-1 Shock Wire still opens: there is no charge on it for the current to kill.
Twitch's Shock Drone disables a placed CED-1 Shock Wire from across the room, so the reinforced wall is dead before an Attacker has to walk into Bandit's angle.
Thermite's Exothermic Charge has to be placed on the reinforced wall, and Bandit's CED-1 Shock Wire electrifies that wall, destroying the charge before it burns.
X-Kairos pellets stick to the reinforced surface and wait to be detonated, which gives a live CED-1 Shock Wire the window to kill them off the wall.
The S.E.L.M.A. Aqua Breacher is thrown onto the surface and then opens to deploy, and Bandit's Shock Wire kills it on a wall it is still attached to.
Common questions
Is Bandit an Attacker or Defender?
Bandit is a Defender in Rainbow Six Siege.
Where do these counters come from?
Rainbow Six's counters are mostly deterministic gadget interactions, rules of the game rather than statistics, so we state them from the two operators' own kit pages with no telemetry needed. A pairing is only written where the winning operator's page names the mechanism, which is why plenty of operators here carry none. Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.
What is the best loadout for Bandit?
NotJoeyBlack, Rasco100 and SINOOS publish loadout picks under their own name, and this page credits each of them rather than averaging them into a single answer. We measure nothing ourselves. The list of what Bandit can equip is the game's own, and is separate from anyone's opinion about it. Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.