RookLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on Rook, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
MP5
- Reaper MK2NotJoeyBlack's pick
- P9Rasco100 says this
- LFP586
- Nitro CellNotJoeyBlack's pick
- PROXIMITY ALARM
- Impact Grenade
- NotJoeyBlack: No laser: unlike Doc you are not constantly swapping, so it only gives your position away.
- NotJoeyBlack: I would run the Reaper MK2 and I would run C4.
- Rasco100: P9 pistol, but you can use all three pistols depending which one is your favourite.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack's pick.
Where the creators disagreed
- Barrel: shown Extended Barrel, SINOOS says Flash Hider.
Other primaries Rook can carry
- P90
- SG-CQB
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.
Rook's armour plates absorb damage. A KS79 concussion round is not damage, it is a 170-decibel shockwave, and a plate does nothing about hearing loss and a dizzying effect.
A cluster charge is area damage meant to down anchors where they stand. Rook's armour plates are the difference between the room being cleared and the room being hurt.
Airjabs knock Defenders out of position and follow up while they are disoriented, and a plated Defender survives the follow-up that the pushback set up.
Common questions
Is Rook an Attacker or Defender?
Rook 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 Rook?
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 Rook 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.