JackalLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on Jackal, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
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- ITA12SNotJoeyBlack and Rasco100's pick
- USP40
- Smoke GrenadeNotJoeyBlack's pick
- ClaymoreRasco100 says this
- Frag Grenade
- NotJoeyBlack: Higher DPS than the PDW9 for barely more recoil.
- NotJoeyBlack: Always run secondary shotgun if you have access to it. I would recommend smoke grenades, but claymores are not bad.
- Rasco100: The shotgun, and then I run claymores over smokes most of the time.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack's pick.
Other primaries Jackal can carry
- PDW9
- ITA12L
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.
Jackal roams to follow footprints, which means covering ground on foot. Gu mines punish exactly that: they inject a toxin, they slow, and they are hidden where he is looking down.
The ERC-7 wipes Vigil's image from cameras. Eyenox Model III does not read an image, it reads footfall on the floor, and a cloak leaves the same prints as anyone else.
Caveira's Silent Step is about arriving unheard and undetected, and Jackal's Eyenox Model III reads footfall rather than sound, so her approach leaves a trail he can follow back to her.
Common questions
Is Jackal an Attacker or Defender?
Jackal 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 Jackal?
NotJoeyBlack, SINOOS and Rasco100 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 Jackal 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.