OryxLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on Oryx, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
T-5 SMG
- Bailiff 410Rasco100's pick
- Reaper MK2
- USP40
- Barbed Wire
- PROXIMITY ALARM
- NotJoeyBlack: Laser is not optional here: you re-ADS after every dash.
- Rasco100: Bailiff, and then go with the proxies or barbed, to be fair either or.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack and Rasco100's pick. The gadget list is every option the game gives Oryx; nobody we read picks between them.
Where the creators disagreed
- Sight: shown Holographic, Rasco100 says Holographic A.
- Barrel: shown Flash Hider, NotJoeyBlack says Extended Barrel.
- Under: shown Laser, Rasco100 says None.
Other primaries Oryx can carry
- SPAS-12
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.
Oryx's edge is climbing back up through a broken hatch nobody expects. Buck's Skeleton Key opens hatches on his own terms and holds them from above, which is the one angle the climb has to come through.
Oryx's Remah Dash is about crossing ground faster than anyone can react. A Kawan swarm on the rotation tags him every time he uses it, so the speed stops being surprise.
Oryx pays health to dash through breakable walls and rotate. Sledge opens the same soft surfaces for free and faster, so the rotations Oryx is trusted to make become Attacker lanes.
A D.O.M. panel is bulletproof and closes the door Rauora chose. Oryx does not use the door: the Remah Dash puts him through the breakable wall beside it, so the flow she is controlling is not the flow that arrives.
Thermite's own page says losing him early hurts the team, and Oryx is the Defender who can dash through a breakable wall to reach a back line that thinks it is behind one.
A marksman holding from outside is exposed to whatever comes out of the building, and Oryx crosses that ground faster than anyone expects a Defender to.
Common questions
Is Oryx an Attacker or Defender?
Oryx 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 Oryx?
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 Oryx 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.