History Characters / RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsBaseGame

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: In this case, a moving metal wall with a gun sticking out of it.
* ATeamFiring: His revolver does a massive amount of damage. Wielding it with his shield is balanced by it having one of the worst hipfire cones in the game, easily reaching the edges of most screens.

* CloseRangeCombatant: Despite looking like an all-out support, he handles surprisingly well in zero-range combat by hipfiring his pistol and melee. His shield can close the distance gap quickly and safely and at close range where hipfiring is a viable option, he becomes really deadly for a shield operator. A good Montagne is effectively unbeatable in one-on-one situations where he doesn't need to lower his shield until he wants to, such as in a post-plant.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His Extendable Shield ''is'' this trope, protecting him from head to toe and a few degrees to the side when extended. Other shields, while still offering protection, still leaves quite a few areas unprotected like the pistol-wielding hand, and cannot protect teammates behind them very well.

** Montange's first name, Gilles, means "shield-bearer" in Greek.

* WithCatlikeTread: [[LogicalWeakness Understandably]], having a large shield with moving parts will not only make Montagne the slowest operator in the game, but also makes his movement the loudest of them all as well. But then again, one wouldn't normally expect ''[[StoneWall Montagne]]'' to sneak, so this can still catch people off-guard on occasion, [[WeNeedADistraction especially if the people nearby are being sufficiently noisy]].

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He has a relatively small and normal Ballistic Shield, compared to even Blitz's, but it's of secondary importance to his Cluster Charges.

A rather jovial Operator, Blitz blinds opponents with his G52 Tactical Shield, a ballistic shield with a powerful flash on the front. He can also sprint with his shield up, allowing him to rapidly close the distance with opponents.

** As his shield does not extend to cover his whole body, Blitz is always vulnerable to shots to his feet and gun hand. His legs are also exposed when sprinting. Fuze has this same problem, but he does not always equip a shield.

* {{Nerf}}: Jäger's consistently high pick rate has made him the frequent target of performance tweaks.

** His Shumikha launcher is based off the experimental Kulakov grenade launcher derived the Mosin-Nagant from World War II.

'''Operators:''' '''Base Game''' | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearOne Year One]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearTwo Year Two]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearThree Year Three]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearFour Year Four]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearFive Year Five]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearSix Year Six]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearSeven Year Seven]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearEight Year Eight]]]]-]]]

* SkillGateCharacter: A peculiar {{Inverted}} case. Due to the tighter amount of teamwork and communication, Castle is seen more often in higher tiers because as mentioned before, they're able to pull off strategies that wouldn't quite work in Casual's random selection of teammates.

* SkillGateCharacter: Fuze used to be a very big example of this, being very powerful in early metagame but very ineffective in later metagame when players are getting more experienced to recognize the distinctive beep the cluster charge makes when it is deployed, making it very easy to avoid them; this is acknowledged as such with the "Starter Edition", which randomly unlocks two Operators identified as being good for early-game players, with Fuze being one of the possible options. With Fuze getting a massive buff early 2017 that practically doubles his kill radius and gave him more cluster charges, he gained new usefulness in crowd control and clearing utility.

* SkillGateCharacter: There's nothing special about his gadget. It is easy to use for a beginner and relatively effective at lower level play where players are not observant enough to their surroundings. At higher level play, where Attackers are droning and looking out for traps, Kapkan has to get a lot more creative:

%%* DropTheHammer: His special gadget is a breaching hammer called [[ICallItVera "The Caber"]], which was built for him by Thatcher's uncle. It can destroy thin barricades like walls, trap doors, and [[OneHitKill people]] with ease. %%It performs largely the same function in ''Extraction'', but Advancement upgrades can allow Sledge to stun bigger enemies with hammer blows, up to and including Smashers.

* CarryABigStick: [[DropTheHammer The Caber]] is this stick. Its namesake is an even bigger stick, being a massive wooden beam the size of a telephone pole that is carried and thrown around in the Scottish sport of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_toss caber tossing.]]

* DropTheHammer: His special gadget is a breaching hammer called [[ICallItVera "The Caber"]], which was built for him by Thatcher's uncle. It can destroy thin barricades like walls, trap doors, and [[OneHitKill people]] with ease. %%It performs largely the same function in ''Extraction'', but Advancement upgrades can allow Sledge to stun bigger enemies with hammer blows, up to and including Smashers.

* GutturalGrowler: He has a very deep, raspy, and Russian-accented voice.

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* HurtingHero: His psychological report reveals that Thermite is still trying to come to terms with the passing of his mother and sister, the latter after a long battle with cancer. His jovial demeanor is speculated to be [[SadClown a coping mechanism]], where Thermite uses his brand of humor to [[BecomingTheMask hide his grief and let him focus on the mission.]]

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Tachanka uses a DP-28 LMG, which dates back to ''World War II.'' Justified though in that Tachanka is stated to be an enthusiast of old Soviet weaponry, to the extent that he prefers the old but reliable weapons to the highly experimental modern ones, and even [[DoingItForTheArt mills his own parts to make them]] if he can't find original Soviet-issue parts.

* NoPronunciationGuide: A common problem among the game's non-French-speaking players is that they have difficulty pronouncing his name. "Mon-tag-ne", "Mon-tag" and "Mon-taine" are particularly common, for those who don't just skirt the issue and call him "Monty". For the record, it's more like "Mon-tan-yah" or "Mon-tan-ye".

* PowerCreep: While not the only person capable of removing utility at launch, Thatcher's niche of disabling breach denial for hard breachers has been crept on by the introduction of Kali and later impact EMP grenades. While Kali isn't as useful in close quarters and impact EMPs lack area of effect and duration, they are more available than Thatcher, who is almost always banned in competitive modes, and allows other ops to bring more utility.

'''Operators:''' '''Base Game''' | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearOne Year One]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearTwo Year Two]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearThree Year Three]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearFour Year Four]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearFive Year Five]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearSix Year Six]] | [[Characters/RainbowSixSiegeOperatorsYearSeven Year Seven]]]]-]]]

** A running joke is the concept of the "Fuze Ace", whereby Fuze kills [[KillEmAll both teams]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the hostage]], and the [[BreakingTheFourthWall announcer]]. His Elite shield skin has eleven notches, as an allusion to this.

* JackOfAllStats: It's not so much that he's average, but it's more like he's a very versatile pick with his kit and weapons.

* JackOfAllStats: Similar to Sledge, with solid guns and an always-useful gadget, but he needs a bit more skill, since his EMP grenades can only affect so far a radius and only for so long a time.

** Since hammer strikes count as melee attacks, hits from the Caber will ignore Rook plates as well as the target player's armor class, and are [[OneHitKill immediately fatal,]] meaning that a 3-Armor Tachanka will go down to a single hit as will a 1-Armor Ela.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Tactical breaching hammers ''are'' a thing in real military and police applications, where a designated sledgehammer is used to gain entry to a blocked area by smashing down doors and windows or other such structural weaknesses to create an opening. The in-game demonstration is rather excessive and exaggerated, however, since soft walls will be reduced to splinters in one to two swings, whereas real hammer breaching is much less destructive and only intended to create an opening large enough for the task at hand instead of completely destroying a given barrier.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ceramic inlays are an actual type of armor that has been in existence in several forms for the better part of a century. Their purpose is to shatter upon impact by a high-velocity projectile to deflect and/or reduce its kinetic energy and preventing it from penetrating through the armor layer. The DBNO timer extension as demonstrated in-game is fictional, however.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Doc can shoot his Stim Pistol at Attackers, accidentally or incidentally, which heals them for 40 health. Given that he is also one of the few characters whose function requires him to aim at teammates, he could also end up misclicking and attempting to heal his teammates [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace with a bullet]].