YingLoadout and Counters
What named creators run on Ying, and every option the game allows. Plus the gadget interactions that decide the matchup.
Best loadout
T-95 LSW
- Q-929
- Reaper MK2
- Smoke GrenadeNotJoeyBlack's pick
- HARD BREACH CHARGE
- NotJoeyBlack: Holographic if your crosshair placement is not there yet. He says only "the LMG", which for Ying is the T-95 LSW.
- SINOOS: Horizontal because an LMG makes a two speed feel like a one speed. The one LMG he does not give a compensator.
- NotJoeyBlack: Always run smoke grenades: it allows you to cause more chaos and get bombs down easier.
Primary and attachments: NotJoeyBlack's pick. The secondary list is every option the game gives Ying; nobody we read picks between them.
Where the creators disagreed
- Grip: shown Vertical, SINOOS says Horizontal.
Other primaries Ying can carry
- SIX12
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.
The Candela releases its flash charges as a thrown grenade, and Jager's Active Defense System shoots it down before it lands, so Ying's entry tool never goes off.
A Mag-NET System pulls Ying's thrown Candela to itself and detonates it there, so Wamai chooses where the flash goes off and it is not where she wanted it.
Ying's whole kit is the Candela's cluster of blinding flashes, and Warden's Glance Smart Glasses either prevent the blindness or cleanse it a second later.
Smoke waits on a choke to detonate gas the moment someone commits, and a Candela anchored round the corner takes his sight away at exactly that moment.
The Shumikha Launcher has to be aimed, and its grenades only arm after the first bounce. A Candela cluster blinds Tachanka for longer than that window.
Common questions
Is Ying an Attacker or Defender?
Ying 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 Ying?
NotJoeyBlack 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 Ying 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.