ThunderbirdLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on Thunderbird, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
Spear .308
- ITA12SNotJoeyBlack's pick
- Bearing 9
- Q-929
- Barbed Wire
- Bulletproof camera
- Deployable Shield
- NotJoeyBlack: Laser is preference: she has no fixed play style.
- Rasco100: He corrects himself on air after showing the wrong attachments.
- NotJoeyBlack: Always run the secondary shotgun if you have access to it.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack and Rasco100's pick. The gadget list is every option the game gives Thunderbird; nobody we read picks between them.
Where the creators disagreed
- Sight: shown Holographic, Rasco100 says 1x.
Other primaries Thunderbird can carry
- SPAS-15
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.
A Kona Station only works if a hurt Defender can walk to it, and an asphyxiation bolt on the ground beside it makes the approach the most dangerous tile in the room.
A Kona Station heals whoever walks up to it, and an Airjab stuck beside it throws them back off before they get the tick.
A cluster charge downs anchors rather than killing them outright, and a Kona Station picks them back up without a Defender leaving cover to do it.
Trax damage is chip damage spread across a route, and a Kona Station gives it back every time the route is used.
Common questions
Is Thunderbird an Attacker or Defender?
Thunderbird 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 Thunderbird?
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 Thunderbird 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.