IQLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on IQ, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
G8A1
- P12
- Frag GrenadeNotJoeyBlack and Rasco100's pick
- Breach Charge
- Claymore
- Rasco100: He alternates suppressor and flash hider here.
- NotJoeyBlack: I would run the frag grenades almost all of the time over these two other pieces of utility.
- Rasco100: I run it with frags to clear utility.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack and Rasco100's pick.
Where the creators disagreed
- Barrel: shown Compensator, Rasco100 says Suppressor.
Other primaries IQ can carry
- AUG A2
- 552 Commando
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.
IQ's Electronics Detector finds devices through walls. A Black Mirror is laminated glass with no electronics in it, so she walks the lane it covers without the warning she is used to.
The Entry Denial Device is a C4 charge triggered when motion is detected, so it is electronic, and Kapkan's own page says the whole plan is that the Attacker does not spot it first. IQ's Electronics Detector spots it.
Grzmot mines fire on proximity from wherever Ela hid them, and IQ's Electronics Detector reads them through the wall she stuck them to.
Prisma sells a hologram as a Defender standing still. IQ's Electronics Detector shows her which of them is a projector, so the bait costs her nothing.
Common questions
Is IQ an Attacker or Defender?
IQ is an Attacker 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 IQ?
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 IQ 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.